So as some of you may remember (because I've only brought it up two or three times in the interim) that the 75 Word Challenge had its beginnings a little more than a year ago when I related a story ... in the midst of a discussion the subject of which escapes me now ... about a writers groups that I briefly joined, hosted by one of our local bookstores. The woman who was moderating the group, an employee of the bookstore, had the idea that she would set us all little homework assignments between meetings, based on the monthly contests in, I think, Writers' Digest. If I remember correctly, my friend and I were the only people there who actually wrote fiction. Everyone else was writing autobiographical or thinly disguised autobiographical pieces. They had little or no interest in writing anything else. So as it turned out I was the only person who did the exercises every week.
The first exercise was to rewrite a familiar fairy tale and place it in a contemporary setting -- in 75 words or less. When I related these stirring events here at the Chronicles, at some point in the ensuing discussion the idea struck me that it might be fun to try something like that here and see if Chronicles members could do any better than that writing group did. And, oh gosh, did Chronicles folk do better!
The reason I bring this up now is that I have searched and searched for my original story without success, and then today, unexpectedly, when going through some old papers, I found it. I thought about posting it here, but I'm not sure that all the references would make sense outside of the US. But it was nice to run across it again.
