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Well, with the answers to those questions being "no, no, and no," I'm left with one possibility, though it may still have too many people, and does have a shift in scene. Connecting The Dots It's one of my least favorite entries, and you don't really want to know why I wrote it. But since ...

Can a slice of life story contain a flashback? If so, how much of the story can the flashback consume before it is no longer a slice of life?
Could it still be a slice of life story if it is set in Heaven or Hell?
And animals can certainly have interesting slices of life.

Avoiding my savior, I’d dithered all day,
And yes, I confess that I stalled and delayed,
Because of the way that I cruelly behaved,
Though criticized justly, the critic disdained.

(Now if the cat would just get off my thesaurus!)

I'm sure that you will look askance
When told I simply don't use slants,
But far prefer perfection sweet--
It's one neurosis I won't treat.
So how do I my rhymes not force...?
A good thesaurus use, of course!
But if upon it Cat's asleep,
I'll use the slant, submit, and weep.

The man sat on a large flat rock near a spring at the oasis, concentrating on precision drawings by the light of a half moon. He sprang to his feet and dropped his quill when a scream pierced the night. It had sounded like a woman's scream, but as he approached the figure on the other side of the sp...

While I have written a couple of acrostics before, (not for FW,) I had never done one with multiple words. When I counted up the letters in "United States of America" and found that there were 21 letters, the sestina did not even cross my mind, so, for the first time ever, I wrote a poem i...

The last time I posted in your class on repetition, the boards had a melt-down. I certainly hope there is no repetition of that cataclysm. 1. I really, really hope this is the last class on repetition. :) 2. Perhaps we knew she would be his bride when we gave them the photo mugs for Christmas of 200...

Jodie, I just have to add, from The Two Towers, Sam's fight with Shelob. Of course, Sam's whole adventure there at the tower of Cirith Ungol was rivetting, too, though I think that was the beginning of The Return of the King. We may have lost our instructor, though, as I seem to recall her admission...

Teacher, are you demonstrating a frog trying to catch a fly? Otherwise you aren't looking very professional this evening.