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A47921817 - A Devillish Affair
Danny B Started conversation Feb 25, 2009
Entry: A Devillish Affair - A47921817
Author: Danny B. [Musicians' Guild (U150368); Science EXplained (A4108330); Curator; Scavenger] - U182633
Entry for Round 4 of The Stretcher (A47534448). As with my last Entry, this is in the AWW only for the competition and will be removed after the judging. I don't expect anyone (except the judges, of course) to actually wade through all of this 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 26, 2009
I enjoyed this.
And I hate detective stories.
Good job.
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minorvogonpoet Posted Feb 26, 2009
Very clever, witty 
and congratulations on writing a story of this length with double-letter words.
A couple of points:
The sentence beginning 'My brother was died from' should presumably read 'has'.
The sentence beginning 'Apparently Titivillus' ends in printed -no double letter!
A47921817 - A Devillish Affair
Danny B Posted Feb 26, 2009
"The sentence beginning 'My brother was died from' should presumably read 'has'."
I tweaked that sentence late last night before submitting. Obviously I didn't tweak it enough!
"The sentence beginning 'Apparently Titivillus' ends in printed -no double letter!"
Oh well, there had to be one... Fixed now.
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Trout Montague Posted Feb 26, 2009
Great stuff.
I'd like to think Bels would have been impressed.
A47921817 - A Devillish Affair
Danny B Posted Feb 26, 2009
Thanks, Trout - I did have Bels in mind when I wrote it, so that means a lot 
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elekragheorgheni Posted Feb 26, 2009
This was brilliant! A fine story and interesting thoughout!
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Feb 28, 2009
Wonderful. Why do you want to take it out once the stretcher is finished?
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Danny B Posted Feb 28, 2009
Because I don't think it works as a stand-alone story. You need to know the that it was a response to a specific challenge about double letters.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Feb 28, 2009
I wouldn't think so. It probably helps if you know Sam Spade, though.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Feb 28, 2009
For what it's worth, I think it works as a stand-alone story.
Sure, the idea comes from the challenge, but as an intertextual jeu d'esprit, it definitely works.
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Beatrice Posted Feb 28, 2009
I hope it gets extra marks for the hootoo reference
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minorvogonpoet Posted Mar 1, 2009
I think it works as a stand alone story.
Because we know from the beginning that this is parody, we don't expect the crime to be realistic.
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Danny B Posted Mar 5, 2009
Well, it now seems that I'll lose marks if I remove this from the AWW, so I suppose it's staying!
Many thanks to everyone for their kind comments - they are much appreciated
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Mar 5, 2009
That's great news, EDanny. I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking it would be a shame if you removed this from the AWW.
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A47921817 - A Devillish Affair
- 1: Danny B (Feb 25, 2009)
- 2: Secretly Not Here Any More (Feb 25, 2009)
- 3: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Feb 26, 2009)
- 4: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Feb 26, 2009)
- 5: minorvogonpoet (Feb 26, 2009)
- 6: Danny B (Feb 26, 2009)
- 7: Trout Montague (Feb 26, 2009)
- 8: Danny B (Feb 26, 2009)
- 9: elekragheorgheni (Feb 26, 2009)
- 10: Danny B (Feb 26, 2009)
- 11: Tibley Bobley (Feb 26, 2009)
- 12: aka Bel - A87832164 (Feb 28, 2009)
- 13: Danny B (Feb 28, 2009)
- 14: aka Bel - A87832164 (Feb 28, 2009)
- 15: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Feb 28, 2009)
- 16: Beatrice (Feb 28, 2009)
- 17: minorvogonpoet (Mar 1, 2009)
- 18: Danny B (Mar 5, 2009)
- 19: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Mar 5, 2009)
- 20: aka Bel - A87832164 (Mar 5, 2009)
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