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I love Margaret Atwood

No, this is not another shabby attempt to draw readers by using the name of a famous novelist.  Oh all right then, it is.  But before you go, just read this and then come back and tell me that I am not right to love her short story:
http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/endings.htm
Oh how we all love a happy ending, and the open-ended DIY approach is just what one needs when ones creative-writing muse is having a bad-hair day.

I have never laughed reading Margaret Atwood before, as everything else I have read by her was The Handmaid's Tale - hardly a bundle of laughs, and something else, probably equally unfunny, the name of which escapes me.  No time for a long blog today, but that's all right and I know you are busy as you have Margaret Atwood to read.





Off you go then.  What are you waiting for?

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  1. postmodernnomadWednesday, 14 November, 2012

    Oops! The link's gone. Try this one instead:
    http://ebookbrowse.com/happy-endings-by-margaret-atwood-pdf-d107082835

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