Challenge 281
Come Home, Little Con-Dog
In Chapter 1, part 3 of Slawomir Rapala’s The Three Kings, Duke Vahan says he has received word from an escaped slave that the Tha-kians may be planning an attack. Why could the Duke not possibly have received the message?
In what way is Bill Bowler’s “Bodkins the Great” a tragi-comedy? How might it be written as a tragedy? As a comedy?
Enumerate the stages by which Allunai and the Jerinn become allies in Leona Rigger’s “Marked for Eradication.”
In Doug Hiser’s “The Blackbird of Death,” what distinguishes Steve and Timmy from the other inmates? In what way is the story similar to Tamara Sheehan’s “Homebody”?
In Jack Phillips Lowe’s “Endless Blue Horizons,” what is Isburg’s tragic flaw? What is Helen’s?
In Tamara Sheehan’s “Homebody,” what indicates that the story is an allegory of the travails of poetic inspiration? In what way is the story similar to Doug Hiser’s “The Blackbird of Death”?
Is Kane X. Faucher’s “Fakebook” a satirical essay or is it simply sarcasm? What comedies might be written about the Internet phenomenon “Facebook”?
In Match Ryan’s comic fable “Prodigal Dog,” what causes Loretta to reform and return to Judge Danderson?
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