Poll: Which Reader Submitted the Best Plotline About a Didgeridoo-Playing Character?
We've been playing "Davis Bunn Trivia" on my Facebook page all month. Readers have been submitting their guesses for a chance to win the entire Acts of Faith series.
Everyone who guesses the correct answer to any of the questions gets entered for a chance to win all three books in the series. I'll be announcing the winner in my next e-newsletter. (You can subscribe here.)
This week, I asked readers to guess what musical instrument I played as a child and teen. (I reveal the answer here.) I received so many creative (and funny) guesses that I decided to award a bonus contest entry to the person who comes up with the best plotline that revolves around a didgeridoo-playing character.
Reality-show style, I'm going to let you, dear readers, choose the winner! Below are the seven entries. Please read the plot synopsis for each, and vote in the poll at the end of the post. You can vote as many times as you want, so recruit friends to help you pick the winner!
1. Luca Azzano
A jewel thief who hides his lute in his didgeridoo yet to hide his identity plays in a band as the didgeridoo player and ends up even killing with his didgeridoo
2. Jessica Sipes
A sweet boy grows up knowing practically nothing except how to play the didgeridoo.
The instrument was given to him by his father on his death bed, the most valuable possession he owns.
The story could fallow him as he faces hardship and trials and then finally prevails!
3. Amanda Sipes
Well, lets see, Elmer was in the forest sitting on his lawn chair just jamming away on his didgerrigoo to all the little forest animals. They always looked forward to when he would come out and play for them. Then one day he doesn't show up! So the little forest animals go to his house to see if he's all right. When they get there they send they feathered friends in the window too check on him, they return and report that he's not feeling very well. So the animals get together and bring him any food they can spare that they have seen him eat. They get him back to health and he continues to play for them.
4. Kathy Hughes Dyer
The didgeridoo music invades his dreams nightly now, luring him back to his childhood surroundings. Oddly enough, he has no conscious memory of his growing up years. After his parents were found slain while on a mission trip in the Torres Strait Islands he was whisked back to the states and raised by his mother's only sister. The shock of what he witnessed……………….
5. Esther Hardman
A young man in his late twenties returns to his old house, on a visit to his parents, and on a rainy day finds his old first didgeridoo. He dusts it off and begins to play it, finding sheet music nearby in the dusty attic. As the day passes, he continues to play and everything comes back to him. He wonders why he left off playing it. On one of his music breaks he is drawn to a weathered crack in the lining of the instrument case. After a few minutes he discovers underneath the lining are old papers, and a small journal that he never noticed before. What he reads in the journal and papers leads him on a journey of finding the didgeridoo's original owner. This journey is filled with suspense, intrigue and even a little romance. Definitely not the summer visit he was imagining this would be!
6. Francesca Azzano
The old man's knees ached and his hands had become gnarled from the arthritis, he knew that it would not be long before the Lord called him home, with that thought he glanced at the door that led to the attic, did he have the strength to climb the stairs one more time? Did he want to go up there? He found the strength and climbed one painful step at a time. He found it in the corner the box, covered in dust. He opened it and looked at it, his didgeridoo. Could he pick it up and play it one last time or would it be too painful, physically, but more importantly emotionally. Were the memories of all those years and all that happened too much for him….
7. Mary Ann Hake
A young man kept hearing this weird music in his dreams. He couldn't remember ever hearing it in real life. Then it started invading his waking hours. He couldn't shake it. When he saw a video of aborgines playing the didgeridoo he knew that was the source. He traveled to Australia to learn to play from them and felt called to live among them. As he explored their culture the faith of his childhood reawakened. This led to establishing a church where didgeridoo music was featured. People came from around the world to experience it.
Pick the Winner!
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