I'm a bit late posting this because I got distracted this week, but here it is - I'm blogging about another of this year's Golden Ink award winners:

Mel calls this a collection of drabbles or flash fiction, but each seems more substantial than that to me.  I’d say they’re more vignettes, but then I have an ancient vocabulary making me nearly incomprehensible to modern readers so there you have it.  Whatever the hell you call Days That End in Y, the collection taken as a whole is surely a splendid picture of Percy Weasley through the lens of various people he has loved and in many cases have loved him back, presented by the best advocate for Percy I’ve ever read.

The installments are more or less chronologically collected, and each focuses on a particular day and a particular person who has captured Percy’s affection in one way or another.  Each episode shows us another aspect of Percy’s character and his emotional growth.  The last few days are mostly him with his daughters, and those are particularly well crafted to show how he adapts his father’s style of parenting to his own personality.  Nobody gets Percy like Mel.

That brings me around to the kicker of this little blog post – Days That End in Y is this year’s winner for Funniest Story!  Who knew Percy could be so hilarious without being ridiculed?  Well, it was Mel.  It always is when it comes to Percy.  If you’re one of the unenlightened who haven’t yet read this collection of drabbles or flash fiction or just plain delightful writing, you need to go read it.  Like right now.  No dilly-dallying.  Go.  Read.  Now.

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