Dear Tim,

Please don't spew your angst all over us. I don't care if it's based on real life experiences, or if you're just imagining these situations. They may be important to you, but they're not very interesting. Share this with your therapist or support group if you want. A therapist is at least paid to read these things. For the rest of us it's very, very boring. Your prose is substandard and didactic. Your poetry is adolescent and immature.

You get one point since you seem to have coded it well and another because your writing, while awful, at least looks as if you proofread.

Don't feel too bad about this response. Angst is something a lot of writers find themselves mired in for a while. I'm sure you'll grow out of it. Most people do.

Sincerely, James.

On Optimism Awards

24^th place on the 2005 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (11th Edition).