Unlikely StoryUnlikely Theme Contest Finalists
Greetings and Salutations,
We’ve spent some time deliberating and weeding. You folks provided so many good ideas, that this was actually fairly difficult. There were some ideas we loved but felt had been done elsewhere too recently, or were a little too broad, or a little too narrow, or might be so obscure that we wouldn’t get enough submissions to fill an issue.
The finalists are:
- The Journal of Unlikely Chronology / The Journal of Unlikely Horology
Different aspects of the same basic idea. Credit to Kari Fay and Adele Jackson. - The Journal of Unlikely Gastronomy / The Journal of Unlikely Foodstuffs & Victuals
Tim Burke presented the idea first, Deborah Walker rephrased it as a science. - The Journal of Unlikely Linguistics
This was offered several times, the first of which was by Luna Lindsey - The Journal of Unlikely Cartography
This was also suggested several times. Sarah Pinkser was the first to do so.
Honorable Mention goes to:
- The Journal of Unlikely Likelihood
Suggested by Greg Bossert - The Journal of Unlikely Musicology
Suggested by Ada Hoffmann - The Journal of Unlikely Coulrophobia
Suggested by Amy Boudloche Bush
So, now we need to think upon these last few choices to determine the winner. We’ll be doing that next week. See you then.
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Good choices but I’m disappointed not to see Journal of Unlikely Proctology among the finalists. =)
While we appreciated the suggestion, we felt it might be too constrictive.
Constrictive? Is that a proctology joke?
Seems like Chronology/Horology would just get you a lot of time-travel stories.
I’d assume a lot of time-travel subs, but there is so much more that can be done with this: the process of constructing history, timelines, clocks/watches/sundials/stonehenge, mysteries/dramas that require the sorting out of the order of events, etc. There’s also a lot to be done with the link between 18th C astronomy and clocks, subjective vs objective time, memory, and so on.
This is the Adele who suggested “Horology” – I forgot to leave a surname, sorry.
Hi Adele, pleased to meet you. 🙂 I’ve edited the post accordingly.