Dear Ben,
Unfortunately, I'm an
atheist, so someone might accuse me of dishonest deity interjection
(thus casting a cloud of doubt over the entire sentence). Another
problem is that "My God, these are beautiful" is quite short
. . . and a proper blurb, particularly for stories as fine as
those in Other Cities, should be long enough to be quoted
with ellipses . . . like so . . . thus suggesting that the blurber
had so many good things to say that they wouldn't all fit .
. . and that some of the best ones had to be left out.
On the other hand, "My God, these are beautiful,"
although blasphemous and short, is true and concise. It's also
an improvement over my first draft:
"Holy shit!"
-- Bradley Denton