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