tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post8411183711541499669..comments2024-03-28T16:06:50.879+00:00Comments on FICTION on the WEB short stories: The Wingless Wingman by Douglas SterlingCharlie Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04834189452905372024noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-11333473855573902252013-06-02T19:29:54.518+01:002013-06-02T19:29:54.518+01:00Culture changes, learns new phrases and tricks eve...Culture changes, learns new phrases and tricks everyday, new songs and memes, new celebrites and boots out the old, but, ultimately, it's only a parlor trick. It doesn't really understand.Daniel Galefnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-13284469593385233692013-05-18T23:29:27.944+01:002013-05-18T23:29:27.944+01:00I love the analogy the writer makes between himsel...I love the analogy the writer makes between himself and the parrot. You can pick up on it all the way through the story. It's brilliant. But I also agree, this is not a funny story at all. It is sad but honest. The shopkeeper has no respect for the customers that come in and buy the trashy t-shirts and he is trying to keep his nephew pure with the sounds of Maria Calas. Nice touch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02708119926194520852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-80530671798294611632013-05-11T18:09:32.232+01:002013-05-11T18:09:32.232+01:00Very well done! I felt the frustration, the longin...Very well done! I felt the frustration, the longing for things gone by, and the terrible sadness of the man,how low he thinks he has fallen in his attempt to make a living.... . Great title.<br />A.D.NohrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-85643839841085749592013-05-03T16:17:05.890+01:002013-05-03T16:17:05.890+01:00Blaaaa!Blaaaa!Sibbett's Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133270500292240681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-7085066560576042612013-04-23T14:16:23.943+01:002013-04-23T14:16:23.943+01:00I wonder why this is tagged as "funny stories...I wonder why this is tagged as "funny stories". I think it is a very sad story with grains of humour and irony. What's funny if a man feels like a wingless wingman.Irena Pasvinterhttps://sites.google.com/site/ipscribblings/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-53554950586489228132013-04-23T08:59:40.018+01:002013-04-23T08:59:40.018+01:00i found this interesting and agree with jim.
i won...i found this interesting and agree with jim.<br />i wonder if this man´s nephew cares about his uncle, he is already totally integrated and this man is looking for a world which in many cases does not exist anymore, 'boys, girls all animals here.....'<br /><br />michael mccarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155197540326010032.post-76181689223887721882013-04-21T15:54:54.439+01:002013-04-21T15:54:54.439+01:00Beyond just the underlying commentary on immigrati...Beyond just the underlying commentary on immigration, there is something here to be said about the "next generation." For each of us there is a tendency to hang on to what we best know from our world, our time. Glenn Miller, Buddy Holly, The Beatles...with this generation entralled with rap. For those from the previous generation the only justice comes in knowing that the shopkeeper 20 years from now will not be able to play his rap, but rather be forced to play whatever future twangs of the guitar hold, otherwise risk the kids poking their fingers in their ears and running to another store.Jim Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429957545169700110noreply@blogger.com