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The Challenge:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write about a strange relative.  Here are a few random words, to incorporate together into a narrative: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

book |  vessel  |  lifesaver  |  vagabond  |  bottom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my attempt…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"war<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My uncle is a strange one.  I mean he was really something once upon a time\u2014way back, during the war, he had been a hero, a true lifesaver<\/strong>.  Many owe their lives to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, he wrote a book<\/strong> about an alien invasion. He wrote convincingly, with strong conviction, as though it was non-fiction.  In fact, it read more like a well-written history, than a science fiction story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after it was published, he popped a blood vessel<\/strong> in his brain\u2014no one could make any sense of anything he said after that.\u00a0 He quickly hit the bottom<\/strong>.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s a vagabond<\/strong>, an honest-to-God bum.\u00a0 The last time I saw him he was stumbling down Main Street, clutching a ragged doll and singing softly to himself.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t recognize me.\u00a0 Looked right past me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried many times to bring him home.\u00a0 But short of locking him up, he won\u2019t stay, so I\u2019ve given up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have the original manuscript of  his book.  It was delivered by mail one day, right after his aneurysm.  I read through it again this past summer and the strangest thing happened\u2014a note I hadn\u2019t noticed the first time, fluttered out onto the desktop.  On it, scribbled in my uncle’s scratchy hand, it read, “If you have received this manuscript, it means that they got to me.  They’ve finally shut me up.  I don’t know how, but I know that something dreadful has happened to me.  I am missing, or I’m dead, or perhaps even worse!  The aliens have so infiltrated our society, and I am no longer able to expose them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine that!  What an old coot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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