Date:         Tue, 5 May 1998 08:37:45 -0400
From: The Bonfire of Ideas <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      EXERCISE: The Ending Is...neither do I

[here is the ending...all you have to do is write a beginning and a
middle!  think about how these characters got to this point, and
write...]

    Rolling down my window, I said to the guard, "I really don't want to
be here."
    "Ma'am," replied the young sailor, looking me straight in the eye,
"neither do I."

and the gears grind, the smoke pours out of their ears, and the keys
start to clickity-clack, crickity-crack...

Uh, oh, they're WRITING!
tink