New Who Short Story

[cot_tossed]

This is a badly named category at best. People disagree about the length of a short story, but CoT defines it as anything 10,000 - 50,000 words long, which is ludicrous. Something 50,000 words long is approaching short novel length - in fact, both the Hugo and Nebula Awards classify anything above 40,000 words as a novel. These length standards, as

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[ladys_paladin]

This is a response to the discussion http://cot-tossed.livejournal.com/3274.html concerning A Small Piece of Coral

I thank you for your time and your compliments on the ideas in the story.

I understand that it is impossible for any one writer to please everyone. Since people, whose credentials in the areas of writing and publishing I know and respect, have weighed in on Coral, I will follow their professional advice and not change my current style.

It is obviously not your cup of tea and I'm okay with that.

I will trust that readers will not be swayed by one review but will read Coral for themselves and form their own opinions.