Thursday, April 8, 2010

Words & Images: Why "The Children's Factory" is the AA Flash of the Week

Posted by Stace Budzko, judge for the 2010 Micro Award:

To appreciate the way images change and evolve through each pass through of a narrative or lyric is to understand the limitless beauty of language in its purest form. In the flash tradition of Kafka and Bradbury, Michael Stewart’s “The Children’s Factory” invites the reader to find deeper meaning and complexity in the composite sense experience, rather than just the individual words.