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I’ll try for the next one Chuck. Presently I’m in school again and my brain is all filled with wrote memorized medical terminology. I have less than an hour a day to work on my present book and maintain my skills. Probably one of the better ideas I’ve ever had thanks to you and this group. 😉

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The gremlins are working hard in the dungeon to come up with something diabolical for my entry. The only problem is they keep threatening a work slowdown if I don't keep them plied with Starbucks drinks. Sigh...

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That's the spirit!

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When am I going to win something? Never mind, I'll just reward myself on the 25th with a large KFC bucket, and a box of tissues 😢

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Okay, how can that sadness translate to a warding-off device... think!

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This one was a tough one. What sends a message through space and time?

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Cockroaches

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I'll up the ante and say localized killer bees.

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I'm so grateful you are disqualified from winning. You can't win your own contests, right? That's something I would do, though and kind of have. I had a surprise Jack n Jill when I was pregnant with Michael they told me it was a costume party and I dressed as Scarlett O'Hara and I won first prize. I was hot though really really big!!!!

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Good fiction is all about creating a compelling problem. The problem is everything.

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Dude, I'm giving myself braingasms the last two days and I'm literally sitting down to belt it out. In my head, it's the ugliest thing I've ever thought of..... ....

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That's the Halloween spirit!

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I'm writing a story that is gonna make even my lawyer cringe but this here's the start of that book I think. I wanna go paid on Substack before I turn 50 in February. My bucket list has nothing much left on it but save the animals and da book. I gotta get to a David Sedaris book signing but I might just might change the manifest to get him to come to mine lololol and one day Ed Norton will say Hello Karie Anne in his sexy voice and I will know my bucket list is complete..........I like Brad Pitt but he's just a prettier version of my older brother and that's gross ......

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P.S. No need for alarm, it's not the first nor the last time I made him cringe lol but someone who gets in a lot of accidents that aren't her fault learns it's best to just keep one on retainer lol and have someone who will answer your call should you get pulled over and be accused of intoxication despite my letter ya know. Especially driving Uber.....

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Dude, my celebrity got me 3 free lollipops at my local gas station AND I walked into the local Dunkin and the locals said Here's Our Storyteller...........

Like if I died right this second, I'd die happy and it wouldn't be a sugar high...........

Don't put writer on my crypt please. Storyteller it is .........

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I have submitted a feeble entry. 😁

Sorry I've been a bit vacant lately, lots on my mind at the moment.

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Hey, don't over-sell it. And the purpose of a writing project is to give you respite from the real dramas of life. Pour all your cortisol into a make-believe crisis.

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Going big then going home

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Wait....... THAT PART when Michael said he didn't appreciate me using him for content but he didn't say stop lololol..........cuz he used me first!!!!!!!!!! When payback is YO Momma!

And I'm intent on embarrassing the fuck out of him!!!!!!

I don't need a costume if Karie Anne-Vincable herself shows up for story night........hmmmmmmmm

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We can make community of people from those infomercials. All of the people who break a leg after trying desperately to do basic daily tasks. The person who nearly dies from trying to pour a cup of coffee or the one that breaks down in tears because they can get their shoe on. Those people in a nuclear landfill.

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We'll call it the "Over-Reaction Squad."

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