Am I the only person wondering why this won a fiction contest? (No, I didn’t enter.) I mean, as someone who’s actually taught writing workshops, the concept is real entry-level middle-school stuff: “Write from the point of view of an inanimate object.” And the execution? Weak.
Prize winner
Maybe this was supposed to run on April 1.
Typically pieces like this win because the rest is even worse or don’t have connections to the judges.
But- but- it’s meaningful, and metaphorical, and everything means something else, except maybe the grandmother. But why doesn’t anyone stop and think about how that spoon got that way? This is scarier still. Are we supposed to believe in a totally random universe where things just happen? Where inanimate objects suddenly start to move of their own volition?
I know! It’s preparing us for the next Bush presidency.