This Week's Theme:
"a letter arrives from an old circus performer who has found an undiscovered island"
Week: Zero
Due Date: January 5, 2009
Letter From Aramor
Alan Wolfe
Cedrick, I’m writing you with the last of the ink and a quill I made from a feather in a fashion that the natives here showed me. This land is a wondrous place, and we have been learning how the natives have been able to remain elusive to the great sweeping hand of the dark legion for so long. ...read more
A Berntastic Christmas
Ryan McCoy
The only thing worse than working was being poor. So Bernie worked three different jobs and hated every moment. In most cities, one job would have provided enough money. He kept three jobs, however, because the only thing he liked better than doing nothing was doing nothing in The City that Never Sleeps. ...read more
Circus Performer
Joey Lewandowski
I realize it has been some time since you all have last heard from me, but I can assure you it is not on account of laziness or ill will or anything of the like. No, rather it is of a much grander and intriguing reason. ...read more
Leon Crawshanks
Peter Fernandez
Leon Crawshanks breathed in deeply, ignoring his lit cigarette and stared up blankly at the moon. He didn't even like to smoke, but it gave him an extra fifteen minute break, once every four hours, so he took it. ...read more
A Letter to Bartleby
James Dunlap
Of all the comforts that man has learned since climbing down from the trees the two most lavishly adored were fire and walls. With walls came the solace, the buried reminder of the comfortable womb before the days of light, and work, and money, and burden. Here in his refuge from the world could a man sit and recollect, gather himself for the inevitable return to the smoke and noise of the modern age. It did not take much to be considered a wall, for Bill Bartleby it was a sheet of cotton fabric with a desk and lighted mirror that transformed a patch of dirt in a vacant lot to a circus man’s den. ...read more
The Island's Child
Eric Drewes
Some of you are probably wondering why a man like me, entering his closing years in the midst of a luxurious retirement, would leave his home and abandon his riches for destinations unknown. To the others, the reasons are obvious. ...read more