I'd rather get out a small loser than fade all those outs just to split the pot with you".
In a short story, a small-time loser gets to lose.
In Keith Dixon's novel "The Art of Losing," the narrator, Michael Jacobs, starts out as a small-time loser.
Then once Jackie Autry began operating the team for her aging husband, she performed the remarkable trick of turning a large-market team into a small-market loser.
A self-proclaimed "storyteller... to anyone who will listen," he mumbles his literary musings into a hand-held voice recorder, betraying the ache of a small-town loser trapped in a world from which he yearns to escape.
He would be the plucky small-town loser who had flown the flag for weekend sailors everywhere taking on the world's most gruelling endurance test and making it home to his loved ones..
Brilliantly translated from Slovak by Peter Petro, this story of a small-town loser turned enterprising bravura gangster in post-communist Slovakia is fuelled with formidable energy and ice-cool satire.
Although his ex-wives and sister all rhapsodize about his extraordinary charm, although his jealous brother, too, speaks of him as a larger-than-life figure, Mr. Leithauser shows us only a small-time loser, practiced in the arts of duplicity and self-deception.
"Their sentiment and ideals totally spoke to us, as small-town-loser kids.
Winners: Facebook, American Express, small businesses Losers: Groupon, LivingSocial, Google, foursquare, VISA, MasterCard.
