From: Cracker Jacks <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
To: A Prize Inside Every Box! <writers@Mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      EXERCISE: I'm Late, I'm Late...

whoops!  as someone mentioned, it's fieday, and I forgot...well, let
us say that the excitement and thrills of work made me lose track of
the time...i.e., today has not been the best of all possible days,
although I will probably be thankful when it is over...

fieday?  fee, fi, foo, fum, I spill words across the fiedom?

okay, try this opener:

        When it started, I didn't really think I'd like him.
        Afterwards, of course, everything had changed.

and off they go, twisting and turning, meanings spilling across
metaphors, images popping off the bulkheads, letters and punctuation
gone wild on their screens!

[if you haven't done this before--start your story or other wordy
wonder with the opening section given above.  Go on until you find an
ending.  Stop.]

EEK!  I've got to go save the world--or at least re-install some systems.

read you later!

and sorry about the delay, thanks for noticing, may the great bird of
the universe dedicate an egg to you!

tink