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Grex Writing Item 161: There Was An Old Man From Nantucket
Entered by opium on Fri Jun 30 04:31:01 UTC 1995:

There Was An Old Man From Nantucket

A car went along the edge of a cliff at midnite of Wednesday night.
The headlights were off, and the driver was headless. I asked him,
as I sat next to him, "How did you loose your head?"
He sang me a song and took me home. I asked him his name and he sang
me again.
I waved as he was leaving. Pulling out of the driveway and pulling away
more haphazardly then I'd noticed.
I turned around to go into the house, but nothing was there.

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Ok--I don't know how or whyy, but this story was divinly inspired by
fluffy's 159, can;'t remeber tittle of it.
Don't ask me why.

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by fluffy on Fri Jun 30 06:08:31 1995:

Funky, reminds me of the headless horseman story:) I don't think I had a title
for my story. I never really thought about a title. Interesting.:)

#2 of 10 by shade on Sun Jul 2 23:05:44 1995:

i asked a guy i was sitting next to tell me atitle for this story.
Ive been told it would be much better if the guy had a song he was
singing...well I know what song he was singing--Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd, The Wall
weird story. I wrote a better one about ahippy but it's pretty
long now and getting longer and nobody seems to like hippies anyway.
except me. i wrote this story in a2 and i talked all about Pete's
I had a lot to say about pete's and Hunt Park  it was fun. too bad
i can't post it.

#3 of 10 by toking on Mon Jul 3 04:00:02 1995:

why can't ya post it??

#4 of 10 by shade on Tue Jul 4 06:25:47 1995:

too long toking. way way too long. I bet you never guess
that I'm not really a poet, I'm really a novelist, hum?
 (twinkle twinkle little fountain pen
        how i wish you'd let me in again
                i hate writer's block so much
                        i want to shoot anne rice!)

#5 of 10 by fluffy on Tue Jul 4 19:11:24 1995:

hippie? cool, post it! How long is it anyways?

#6 of 10 by shade on Wed Jul 5 00:59:36 1995:

which one? I've got 2 about hippies...one of them is short
the other one is LONG like novel length and not on disk...

#7 of 10 by fluffy on Sat Jul 8 06:38:24 1995:

I think I tried to respond to this once, but it disapeared, or maybe I was just
halucinating, or somthing oh well. The Short One! And the long one, but thats
ok, the short one will be fine! .

#8 of 10 by shade on Wed Jul 12 05:11:58 1995:

silly josh ;}
have fun at camp

#9 of 10 by pirate on Wed May 15 06:05:00 1996:

No one here either? Humm...

#10 of 10 by shade on Wed May 15 21:21:15 1996:

I'm here but...

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