Date:         Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:44:15 EDT
From: "de reada? no, jest tink minor" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Organization: Not Anytime Soon
Subject:      EXERCISE: The Personals

short, and maybe sweet?

pick a number from one to six.  yes, you may use a die if so inclined.

(did you pick a number yet?  we're waiting...okay?  got your number,
right?  let's go!)

1.  "Come Home, Elvis!  Your grandson needs the target practice!  Call
555-9834 today."

2.  "Young woman urgently needed to save world.  Experience desirable,
not necessary for the right person.  Will train.  Expenses not
included.  Will contact you using Gjallarhorn via Bifrost."

3.  "Bodies Available.  Off-the-rack or custom, we have what you need
at the lowest rate.  Come in and take one home today.  See Peter
Wilton Cushing at 1235 Homunculus Row."

4.  "Redheads Needed for Photo Opportunity.  Come in, we snap, and you
leave $25 richer.  The League, 221B Baker Street."

5.  "The World Ended Yesterday.  Why Are You Reading This?  Respond to
Police Box 378, TARDIS Type 40."

6.  "Lost Pet Unicorn Found on 5th and Maple.  Owner - please call
555-1379.  Ask for Dab-Dab of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh."

In reading their friendly local newspaper this morning, one of your
characters noticed this slightly unusual advertisement in the
personals.  They react...

(of course, if your character reads the news at lunch, sitting in an
airport, or perhaps sandwiched between riders in the bowels of New
York, that is your choice!)

Tell us about that recognition.  You may start with the ad if you
like, then show us the scene, with the coffee slowly being poured over
the pancakes as they stare at the paper, or...

whatever happens in your story (poem, vignette, etc. at your election).

tell it now.
tink