Web Assignment 1: McSweeney's

One of my favourite web sites is McSweeney’s. McSweeney’s is a literary web site that publishes very short stories. There is also a McSweeney’s journal that comes out roughly four times a year. Both mediums feature very good contemporary writing, some of it very funny. I have chosen to link to a story called “Creepy Clown Under the Bed's Telepathic Message to Child in Bed, Age Five and a Half” by Melissa Bell. I think the story is both funny and a bit spooky. It reminds me of the fears I used to have as a young child. Unlike the implied reader in the story, a five year-old child, I wasn’t afraid of clowns; however I was afraid of aliens. I thought there was one under my bed at any given time during the night. I think Bell’s story does an excellent job of capturing a child’s irrational fear.