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Mar 24, 2014 03:56PM
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Garrett, 'Rabbit Hole' doesn't start with a Z.Just saying.
It's a stretch, but to get us past the clubhouse turn, the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle.http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1456334...
Howard, you are right! Yikes! I was looking at the bottom of the first screen, and didn't see where we really were. Oh my! I am sleep deprived! My niece had a baby and the hurried flight to Dallas, the late night, long day and hurried flight back, has me in need of some zzz's. Now that starts with Z. Art, good find on the Zany....
Art wrote: "It's a stretch, but to get us past the clubhouse turn, the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle.http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1456334..."
It's Time Travel and it starts with Z. Works for me!
Howard wrote: "Garrett, 'Rabbit Hole' doesn't start with a Z.Just saying."
Plus it was already used in round one, so couldn't be used again in round 2 (if my interpretation of the rules are correct)
It is going to be a real challenge to get through another round!
Good point Heather but, according to the Super Stickler, our founder Amy, the instigator of the thread is always in charge of the flow.So, R comes after Y and, because Garrett is two people, then it's OK for a repeat.
At least for them, given Amy's earlier rulings, that is.
Just saying.
Howard,Thank you for coming to our defense, but I withdrew my submission of an R because it was out of place. Your argument of our being two people is so darn good though, the lawyer in me can't let it go. I'm keeping that should I ever need it.
By the by, I loved your strike anywhere match comment on another string. Ain't it the truth!
Heather, it is going to be a real challange to finish another round if we hold to a do not repeat rule. Perhaps it is time to end this thread. I will withdrawal as the thread instigator and let anyone who wishes to continue, to do so.
Anybody up for another game of a different sort? I have an idea. How about we write a story, each person writes three sentences and then the next person picks up from there. Anyone interested?
Cynthia (The Garrett half of Garrett Smith)
Cynthia, I like your concept. Would it be on a different thread?
The clock That Went Backward (1881)http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2012/cur120...
"The Clock That Went Backward," by Edward Page Mitchell (1881)
ON SUNDAY, September 18, 1881, President James A. Garfield lay dying from wounds inflicted in an assassination attempt two months earlier. The New York Sun reported on its front page that there had been "NO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. THE PRESIDENT'S CONDITION MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER BEFORE." For nourishment he was given "five and a half ounces of defibrinated beef blood morning and evening by enema." He would die the next day.
The Sun's readers could then turn to page 2 and read "The Clock That Went Backward," a science fiction story in which three men travel back in time to ensure the outcome of a decisive battle.
The device by which this is accomplished is an apparently nonfunctioning, eight-foot-high Dutch clock built in 1572 in Holland. The clock transports the narrator, his cousin, and Prof. Van Stopp (a "distinguished Hegelian") from nineteenth-century Leyden to war-torn 1574 Leyden as the city is besieged by the Spaniards. Van Stopp, it seems, is actually Jan Lipperdam, the maker of the clock.
The story was published with no byline. The author—Edward Page Mitchell, a writer and editor for the Sun—was later identified by Sam Moskowitz, who collected Mitchell's many proto-sf stories from the 1870s and 1880s in The Crystal Man: Landmark Science Fiction by Edward Page Mitchell (1973). The curiosity is that rather than establishing Mitchell as a foundational figure in the field, Moskowitz's book seems merely to have afforded Mitchell a status—not unlike the ill-fated President Garfield—of little more than a historical footnote.
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Amy, John, Howard, E.B. and others did an endless time travel story about a year ago. It went for several months and was very enjoyable. You might want to have a gander and see how it turned out.
I would love to start another cooperative writing exercise...despite my lack of writing skill.
Lincoln mentions the 'endless time travel story about a year ago'Lincoln, that experiment led to my dedication thread & yours, if memory serves, was #5:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Okay, I've started a new thread with our Cooperative Time Travel Story.Find it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Garrett, as Lincoln's #75 shows, there were 2 threads, one the story itself & one for discussion.The experiment died as no general thrust was agreed upon & it ran in all directions.
So, discuss it first.
Howard,I couldn't wait. I've started the new thread. The rules are simple. I will start a second related thread for discussion of the story or other thread-related discussion. That seems to be a good idea.
Ah yes the Neverending story. That was great fun! Interrupted (for me anyway) by my new job. I'm mostly a lurker these days but I'm still here :-) Perhaps I'll take a gander at this new thread. I can handle three lines...I've loved the A to Z exercise. Well done!
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