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Spats, Traps, and Possum Fur Hats

This is a character based story set in Southland New Zealand. It has five main characters, one of whom is central to the tone, structure and feel of the story. There are four plots that gradually weave together.

Roxy Anderson is fifteen, lives in a remote area. After returning from a trip to the North Island, where she stays at a Navajo community [I'm sure there must be a good reason for using Navajos in New Zealand even though NZ has its own indigenous tribal peo

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Caption: WO

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Writing Exercise

The 2nd Annual Deus Ex Machina Competition

Okay, the first annual Deus Ex Machina exercise wasn't actually a competition, and neither is this one. But if it were, the winner would be the one whose save-the-day ending was the most unlikely and hilarious.

As you may know, Deus Ex Machina (DEM) refers to an author's tactic of saving the hero from disaster through a totally unlikely intervention. Sort of like in early Greek plays, when out of nowhere Zeus would show up at the last second and kill the

Workshop

Here's your chance to help EE choose the best captions and continuations, to suggest future writing exercises, or to just chat with your fellow minions. I want to schedule it at a time when those who wish to attend can make it. It'll be Friday night or Saturday morning or afternoon. If you want to attend, figure out which hours you're available, convert to eastern time, and respond. I'll schedule to accommodate as many as possible.

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Chapter 4

Tighe floated motionless in the dark water of the Milwaukee Deep and let the current flow gently through his gills. The towers of Main Man 7 reminded him of the Eiffel Tower lit up at New Years; three city blocks of steel and iron structures thriving in the ocean depths. LEDs blinked on motorized pickers as they moved over the ocean floor retrieving ancient coins and raw metal nodules. The crawlers dropped their finds into bins on mechanized crawlers that moved to individual loading doc

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Caption: Kiersten

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Guess the Plot

Spats, Traps and Possum Fur Hats

1. Two strangers are inadvertently brought together in New Zealand. Also, a fork.

2. Reprint of the Hudson's Bay Company Gift Catalogue from 1812, the perfect gift for the nostalgic outdoorsman in your family.

3. Writings of my great great grandfather, who left the cut-and-thrust of the Paris couturier scene to carve his own way as a frontier haberdasher.

4. After the success of his Broadway show about Daniel Boone, playwright Frank Spinelli goes campin

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Caption: anon.

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By the time the Krakowski family made it to the promised Cessna ride, they were on their ninth hour of travel and the novelty of Alaska had long since worn off. Except for Nathan's father.

"Look at that, kids!" Doctor Paul Krakowski shouted over the roar of the plane, pointing down over the vast Northern Slope. "The last great untouched wilderness in the world! Only a handful of people will ever see this in their whole lives!"

Nathan, locked in the same sullen silence since they'd left Chicago, ig