Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:01:25 -0400 From: "the rags of time..." Subject: [WRITERS] EXERCISE: When do you shiver? (three more days?) [if you didn't know it, there is a contest going on...slide down a strand of the word wide webbery and visit the hallow e'en context page for more details...] Think back to the times when you have felt the hairs on the back of your neck rise, when the goosepimples threatened to become permanent, when your hindbrain was busily trying to get you to either run or fight, but don't stand still... Pick one of those times, and think carefully about what it was that made it scary. Then take this, and finish the story with fear... The shadow in the alley seemed to move, and he stopped to peer more closely at the darkness. That's when he realized the shadow really was moving. [of course, you could have a light moving in the alley, but somehow, that's not so spine-tingling as a shadow...] Come live with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures prove of golden sands and crystal brooks with silken lines and silver hooks. John Donne tink