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‘No Doom, Dread or Awful Humor’
A Reader versus Writer Challenge from Allen
© 2016 James LaFond
MAR/9/16
“James, I like your work, and have stumbled upon this tag, which is quite ill-advised of you, to leave this lever in the hands of the villainous likes of me. You seem to be a prodigious master of doom and dread, spiced with an awful humor. My challenge: that you, sir, write a vignette that is bereft of your three literary bedfellows, no doom, dread or awful humor.”
-Allen
Allen, I accept the challenge and, when I return to this chair tomorrow morning, I will pick up this gauntlet and slap it down, in 500 to 1,000 words—or I suck!
The story will be posted before noon 3/9/16
My Ocean Tomb
fiction
The Project
eBook
wife—
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
logic of force
eBook
advent america
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
plantation america
eBook
shrouds of arуas
eBook
on the overton railroad
DL     Mar 9, 2016

Oh my... Prepare for your challenge to be fulfilled in a way that will be very surprising to you at best. Your writer so challenged absolutely will not get backed into any kind of corner, so be prepared: he does not suck.
James     Mar 9, 2016

Thanks for the note of confidence. This is my toughest challenge yet, what with me [I'm making it rhyme and trying to seem cute, it is not a typo like the last comma was.] three big guns taken away...
DL     Mar 10, 2016

My confidence is justified. I remember what you did with my challenge. I was completely horrified by the end of the story. Nevertheless, your delightful, dystopic style has won me over.
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