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GRAND PRIZE

Submitted by lrogers on November 22, 2008 - 2:15pm
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I can see you are all stampeding to respond to yesterday's challenge. Perhaps you have been speaking to my children, who were often promised rewards for good behaviour. Once they cottoned on, the good behaviour stopped.

The GRAND PRIZE was a kiss.

How about a virtual kiss? No? Well then, what about ephemeral notoriety on the net????????

VIRTUE IS ITS OWN REWARD.

I'm off to the tea reading. It takes hours to make me fit for public exposure. That would be hair, nails, waxing...

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Eight is Enuff!!

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Submitted by jscully on August 31, 2008 - 8:54pm

Eight is Enuff!!

Cottagers and tourists can take a hike, not into nearby Algonquin Park where terrorists disguised as bears and moose will surely lurk, but back to their homes in the city. They won't be welcome in this usually visitor-crazy Mecca called Muskoka. No, officials don't fear an outbreak of bubonic plague, although locals may consider it to have happened, for in exactly two years' time, this place will be swamped with 5000 media and as many security operatives, politicians and their hangers on. So stand by for the most vacuous, meaningless, most-heralded event of each year, the G8 summit. In 2010 it will be staged at the Deerhurst Resort – Spa, Golf Course, Heated Pool-Cool Pool, Three Restaurants, Four Bars, Much Waiting, High Prices, Low Service – and Country Club just up the road from me.

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is the author of the novels Say My Name (Ekstasis Editions, 2000), Friday Water (Cormorant Books, 2003) and The Empress Letters (Cormorant Books, 2007). She has also published several collections of poetry, including Love in the Rainforest (Exile Editions, 1996), Heaven Cake (Sono Nis Press, 1997), The Saning (Sono Nis Press, 1999) and The Bursting Test (Guernica Editions, 2002).

Go to Linda Rogers’s Author Page