Who?

[scheherazade_79]

Who are the people who read Lit poems and stories before they're accepted?

It suddenly struck me that I don't have a clue.

I came up with the following ideas:

a) They're printed out in large print and sent to local nursing homes so that the residents have a regular source of useful work to look forward to each week.
b) Laurel and Manu - who never ever get to go out and party with their friends as a result.
c) The resident geek of a small Indian village that's only just had electricity connected over the last 5 years.
d) They're not actually read by a human - instead there's a computer program that does all the work. Little do Laurel and Manu know that this program is beginning to evolve. After reading so many sex stories it knows exactly how to turn on the entire human race, and is planning on using it as a means of enslaving us all...
e) The work is subcontracted out to an army of illegal Mexican immigrants.


But seriously now... who the hell is responsible for reading them???

And this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I'm an impatient bitch, who's almost falling off her chair waiting for a new poem to be posted

 

[neonlyte]

The stories and poems are actually scanned by a computer programme that checks content against key words, beastiality, underage sex, etc before moving on to check general spelling and punctuation. This is where the problem lies for poets, the computer keeps throwing little wobbly's over the entire lack of puncuation.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Thanks, Neon

Now I'm enlightened. I still prefer idea d), though

 

[damppanties]

c.

The computer program rumour was started by a jealous competitor who was considered for the honour but rejected.

 

[S-Des]

I think it's 'e'. The reason the stories take so long to post is because the group in question hasn't gotten around to learning to read English yet. I guess it's one of those jobs Americans won't do.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I was partial to "a" myself, which I think is a lovely vision.


"a) They're printed out in large print and sent to local nursing homes so that the residents have a regular source of useful work to look forward to each week."