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I would seriously consider it, except that Wood Nymph, who in real life is my ward, needs me to invest time in addressing her assorted, time-urgent needs.

"WINKY DINK AND YOU...." Remember I'm THE oldest member of than you. Winky Dink was the beginning of interactive television. We would stick a translucent marker surface over the screen, and the narrator would prompt us. If Winky Dink needed a ladder, we drew a ladder; if he needed a boat, we...

Way back in the Fifties there was a children's TV cartoon called "Crusader Rabbit." The lagomorphic hero rides a horse and has a tiger named Rags. Here goes: Rags has an opportunity to peruse Dancing Lawn as a guest. Going back through years of the Writing Club, he finds Copperfox's...

{{{ Note that I've used Master Chief as a character in one section of "Spacebullies." }}} ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''""""""""""""""'''''''''''''''' Let Willoughby Rabbit from Byron-on-Wells find himself in America before the advent of cable television. When...

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For what it's worth, Mary and Ahab will both be heard singing at various points in the story. ''''''----....----''''''----....----'''''----....----''''----....----''''----....----''''' A Winnebago Indian chief (yes, there's an actual Native tribe, not just a motor home) took time to meet the...

Try standing on your head on a moving checkout conveyor, while demanding to be allowed to pay for your selected merchandise in Monopoly money. Then tell the employee at the cash register, "The customer behind me suggested that you wait to be paid until the fictional character of Alipang Havens...

No, because some Chinese termites had gotten there first, and had WOKKED the plank. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- oooooooo

You couldn't have chosen a better time to sign on. Our founder Paul "Specter" Martin is setting up a YouTube channel to promote the "Magician's Nephew" movie. Long-time Dancing Lawn member Evening Star is a sort of executive officer, keeping things moving. If you have stories in mind to write...

Watch out, I might even refer to you as the Chaplain of Trail Life.

Standing by to write more........ //////// New note to self: Seagoing Pehekans, who were on the Comanche side, will be who the ones who show up on the east coast. There, they'll meet the wise Kuffrads. Later, they meet minstrel couple Kaktoresh and Viltori...

I wish you the best of success on that. The only reason why I _won't_ join it is because I _can't_ join it. I simply have no time to spare from real-world obligations. I can, at least, ask this question: would the campaign take place within a setting of the _canonical_ books, or would you use...

Sometimes it's one monster helpless against another monster. "Battle Beyond the Sun" depicted a blobby space monster with NO means of defense being massacred by another blobby monster which was all teeth and claws. "The Black Scorpion" had part of its action inside a deep cavern, where one of...

Here's how it is. _EVERYTHING_ I wrote about _any_ of those characters was written in the days of impact typewriters. No electronic retention of documents. To this very day, around fifty years later, I still have stacks of manuscript pages in my basement, by the door of the laundry room. Being...

Is this thread even still active? Okay, I recognize you, Benisse. When I wrote "Flying Girl and Iron Merchant," you complimented me on my close approximation of Chinese storytelling. At that time we had one member who lived in Indonesia, and she furnished me with cultural details of the South...

A novel titled "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers," followed by "The Wizard and the War Machine," was among the multiple influences which led to my eventual creation of the superhero Grey Eagle. The astronaut protagonist in these books comes to one of numerous terrestroid planets which Earth...

We now return to our scheduled story of Captain Crashburne, Friendzone Pharaoh and Useless Unit. They await the resolution of matters with Joe Greenridge, the "non-qual" sailors under his tutelage, the band "Punkyard Dogs," and Chaplain Creach..... 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

You understand, do you not, that I do this place-holding so as to continue using a chosen type font?

Princess Frances: I _seriously_ like the notion of Jenna Ortega as Jadis. When playing Wednesday Addams, she plays a profoundly selfish narcissist. As Jadis, she would make me want to yell at the screen: "Hey, Aslan, tell Fledge to hold on a minute before transporting Digory and Polly to the...