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Cartoon 512

Caption: Anon.

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New Beginning 701

"There could be muggers in that park."

"I'm hopin'."

Kelly Banks watched as Jackson Creed walked on as if he hadn't even noticed he'd given Mr. Spokane the brush-off. Sure, school was out and a teacher couldn't stop a student from going through the park, and Jackson was a big kid, but he was going through a park where there had been some bodies found of late, and he was only fifteen.

If Creed was going to survive an attack he would have to be a very bad boy and that would make things . . . inter...

Cartoon 511

Caption: Anon.

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Face-Lift 695

Guess the Plot

Resonance

1. The cello is said to be the instrument closest to the human voice. But Zoe didn't expect hers to start humming on its own. Nor did she expect the notes to sound increasingly like human words, impassioned and pleading words. Now if she can just keep her music teacher from finding out...

2. Claire lost her six-year-old heart to Bobby's recorder solo in their first grade Christmas Pageant. Twenty years later she buys the night club where Bobby plays the sax from the Russ...

Cartoon 510

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Writing Exercise Results . . .

are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene in which your elevator pitch to Evil Editor is ruined by the appearance of a Hollywood star.

Elevator Pitch 5

I should have known the moment I read my horoscope.

Today, Sagittarius, you will pitch your novel to Evil Editor in an elevator. But watch out, there may be a fight. Or kissing. And Mars in Leo can only mean only one thing: psychic assault from the undead corpse of Steve McQueen.

So I got in the elevator, first one I saw.

And there he was, Evil Editor. It was like fate mixed with a nightmare and a dream come true.

'I'd like you to take a look at this,' I said, and pulled out my manuscript.

EE adj...

Elevator Pitch 4

I wanted to pitch him. Been wanting to for a while.

I'd think, nahhh, and then I'd think, yeahhh, and then I thought, well if it looked like an accident, a casual meeting at a conference, well, that wouldn't seem too groveling, so, ya know, that would be a good thing.

So I went to this conference in one of those Hyatt Regency places that were all hoo-hah thirty years ago. This one was like the rest of them; downtown, with the escalators up to the second floor and the glass elevators up to the...