Title Cage-Match Smackdown #2 Revisited!

[lizvogel]

So it turns out that polls on Dreamwidth are only open to logged-in Dreamwidth users, which makes the poll I posted a few days ago, um, rather less useful than I'd hoped. Whoever you anons are, I'd meant to let you play, too. So let's try this again the old-fashioned way -- and look, now with an extra option!

Given a short-short story to be titled, and knowing nothing else about it, would you be more likely to go for:

     "Our Dead Are Never Dead, Until Forgotten"
     "Rage, Rage Against the Dying In the Night"
     "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Exit Here"
     Something else in the same vein, which I will put in the comments

Pick whichever one you like best, for whatever value of "best" you care to employ. Bonus points for why and/or what sort of story you'd expect from that title.

Comments

[lavenderbard]

As an actual logged in Dreamwidth user, I didn't respond earlier because I had no strong preferences. They all sound dark.

[lizvogel]

Well, dark is what I'm going for. Actually, horribly, genocidally grim is what I'm going for -- the story isn't exactly that, but that's the mind-set I'm hoping to start the reader off with.

Interesting thing with short-shorts: getting the right title is extremely important. A good title helps any work, of course, but when you've only got a few hundred words to play with, the title becomes a vital part of setting the mood or steering the reader down the desired path.

[starwatcher]

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I vote for #1; it sounds poignant along with the dark.
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[lizvogel]

Thanks! That's the one I went with, as it happens; nice to know it resonates for somebody else, too.

Now I just need to get somebody to buy it. ;-)