Sometimes submissions come in that I just need to share, even if I explicitly disapprove them. The other day I got a submission that failed on two levels. First, it was written in Spanish. I have no problems with Spanish, of course, but given that all of the stories here are in English, a Spanish submission would be better suited for a site that is run by, say, someone who knows the language.
Secondly, the story had multiple sentences. One of the several day that I get like that.
Yet, something compelled me to run the submission through Google Translate. And that, friends, is what I want to share with you:
When I was 6 years, my father drove me home to put my boots on your fish tank water. With teary eyes waited 5 minutes in front of the door with my giraffe rag in one hand and a picture of my mother and giraffe in the other. I never even went to watch their fish, until yesterday, smoking reefer in the living room carpet was on fire …
Now I kinda’ wish I had approved it…