Date:         Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:46:20 EDT
From: The Bonfire of Ideas <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: Title Challenges!

First, from the weekend, we have:

    Rat Tamer

(or The Rat Tamer, if you are feeling article-laden...articulate?)

For those who may wonder, this came about as a result of one of our
members describing a fantastic scene, with a woman (probably clad in
skin-tight leather and stilleto heels, although the scene was demurely
vague at the time) snapping her whip at a small rodent...I believe the
lighting was strange, unearthily, with dancing shadows and the painful
gurgle of sewage somewhere in the background...but this is mostly my
imagination running rampant through the gothic undergrowth...

Anyway, please write your very own fantasy/surreality/or whatever you
like using this little crowd pleaser...

Second, as of today, with a bit of an elbow in the olde geographic
ribs, we have:

    A Month's Cruise in Idaho

There you have it, and I can hear the outboard motors revving now,
getting a grip on the keyboards and spinnnnnnning those props...

[for those who are feeling a bit lost--the idea is that you may start
with one of these as your title, then proceed to write a story, poem,
or other piece...go ahead and try, you don't have to show it to anyone
if you don't like the results...]

write!
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