The Experiment
Shortly after I posted my story, "The Experiment," I went back and looked at it again and decided that it had been a failure. I simply hadn't realized the potential that I had seen in the article that had given rise to it. It was supposed to leap off the screen and grab the reader; instead, it just lay there doing not much of anything. Here on the list we were talking not long ago about whether you could revise a story too much; I fear that the original version of this story had not been...