EXERCISE: Write to the ending...

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original posting: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:31:48 -0400

Haven't done one of these in a while.

Here's the ending:

At the ticket counter, he said to the clerk, "Three tickets for the beauties and one for the beast, please."

(from page 82, Reader's Digest, July 1993)

So there you have it.  Now, your problem (should you choose to accept it, Mr. Phelps?) is to come up with a story (short or as long as your dog has hair) to which this is the ending.

I'd start by thinking about who he is, and maybe a little about who the three beauties are.  For that matter, just who (or what) is the beast?

Now what kind of tickets are they getting?

Go ahead, write that ploy!

And end with

At the ticket counter, he said to the clerk, "Three tickets for the beauties and one for the beast, please."