The August 2004 Silver Clitorides Awards

The Presentation

August. Such a tawdry month. Always warm, moist, ready to blow you
away, anywhere, anytime. Sticky. You can't trust August. Full of
depression. Tropical depression, mostly - and moistly. You gotta
grab what you can when you can, because there's no telling if you'll
have the power for it later. August is a bitch.

August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar,
with 31 days. Named in honor of Augustus Caesar. The month has 31
days because Augustus wanted as many days as Julius Caesar's July.
Augustus placed the month where it is because that's when Cleopatra
died. Before Augustus renamed August, it was called Sextilis in
Latin, since it was the sixth month in the Roman calendar which
started in March. See? Even Auggie knew it was a tawdry month. What
could you expect from a month named sextilis?

It's hard to find a redeeming trait for August. July... July has
Independence Day for US'ns and Canadians. September has a day to
celebrate the dignity of the working man. Just try to get an extra
day off on an August weekend, and listen to your employer guffaw.
It's gonna cost you some of your hard earned vacation time.

Who loves August? Your electric companies even have mixed feelings.
Oh, sure, the accounts receivable departments, sitting in their air-
conditioned offices, is chortling gleefully as their customers'
electric meters are whirring like the extra fans you have to stick
in your window or blowing across the bed just to avoid heat
prostration, never mind braving the heat and sweat to actually make
love, and the kids are still on their vacations and wide awake in
the next room because they can't sleep in the gawdorville heat and
humidity, either. Yeah, August is great for accountants and nerdy
office types. Try being a lineman for the county, or even the meter-
reader who has to go out in that heat!

Who else loves August? Well, readers for one, at a guess. They
managed to find something to take their minds off the swelter
outside and kindle a fire in their pants instead. Two somethings,
based on the voting this month. Yeah, we got us another tie.

So, without further complaint about the weather, let's get to the
one... two good things about August:

"The winners of Silver Clitorides Awards for best stories of the
month of August, 2004 are Kevin and Keli - The LHS Ski Trip by
SunShowerGurl and Never Any Excuse by Uncle Sky. Congratulations,
Megan. Congratulations, Uncle Sky. And let me congratulate all the
authors and finalists."
/~sunshowergurl/stories/kk_skitrip_v1.pdf
/files/Authors/uncle_sky/Never_Any_Excuse/


Story	Author	Month	Status
Foreshadow	Number 6	August, 2004	finalist
Kevin and Keli - The LHS Ski Trip	SunShowerGurl	August, 2004	winner
The Lottery	Dark Vision	August, 2004	incomplete
Never Any Excuse	Uncle Sky	August, 2004	winner
Next Sunday	parthenogenesis	August, 2004	finalist
Once More With Feelings	Night Hawk	August, 2004	incomplete
En Plein Coeur de la Nuit	Richard Packer	August, 2004	finalist
Riptides	Souvie	August, 2004	finalist
Spitfire and Messerschmitt	Gina Marie Wylie	August, 2004	incomplete

For links to these stories, go to
/~Clitorides/SCA_Archive_D.htm#0408