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Good Read. Nice little cautionary tale with a halloween twist.

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That's one of the problems with lies.

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Oct 25, 2023·edited Oct 25, 2023Author

There's a joke somewhere in here about how students cheat, but writers "borrow." I was definitely leaning heavily on old-school "Little Orphan Annie" kind of tales.

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Good story, I enjoyed it.

Yeah . . . definitely "borrowed" from Poe with my Practical Joke. . .

On the subject of "borrowing" (like The Borrowers) I have a book on writing, by James Scott Bell, and one of the 20? ways he gives for getting ideas is to get inspiration from other writings and authors. That one is literally labeled "steal from the best" heh heh.

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