Last month, I wrote an unusual story, called “Children and Toilets.” At least it’s unusual for me. It has a female protagonist. I wrote it for Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing crit contest. I’ve thought of doing a crit contest here, too. Mur beat me to it. By entering the contest, I had two goals in mind. I wanted to prove to myself that I could write a female protagonist. And I wanted to support Mur’s contest and my comrades at I Should Be Writing.

I didn’t win. And after I was done crying in my Merlot— Just kidding. Actually, I wasn’t expecting to win, because there were bound to be a number of great entries, and any of them could’ve won. I was more interested to read the other entries, and some people are posting them over on the I Should Be Writing Workshop forum. I also wanted to hear what others thought of my entry.

You can read “Children and Toilets” at my website, and feel free to critique it.

-TimK