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RENDEZVOUS

Thursday, July 27th, 2006 | Permalink

Here’s a weird comic I did in response to the McSweeney’s contest inspired by Dan Wiencek‘s “13 Writing Prompts.”

4.

Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.

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Happily Ever After.

And in case you didn’t hear, ukuleles are all the rage.

“When you show up at a party with a guitar, it’s serious. People expect something!”

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7 Comments on “RENDEZVOUS”

  1. Matt Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 1:24 am

    Awesome comic, Austin, and a great solution to a prompt that I wouldn’t have been able to find a way to write about. Instead, my submission was based on this prompt:

    Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there?

  2. Austin Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 9:28 am

    ooh, that’s a good one. you should post it.

  3. Matt Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am

    Actually, McSweeney’s will be running it, so I’ll have to wait until it’s up on their site, then I’ll link over. Did you send this to them? I can’t believe they didn’t take it.

  4. Austin Says:
    July 28th, 2006 at 11:31 am

    good for you! yeah, i sent it, but nah, i never heard from them.

  5. encouraging Says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    My son sent a contest entry for the McSweeney’s Lemony Snickett writing contest (he also incorporated comic panels) and never heard a word of encouragement or response either. Way to crush a 10-year-old’s ideas that he might be able to write well.
    I liked your response to the writing prompts much better than the cosmonaut bit they picked.

  6. Austin Says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 11:00 am

    thanks, encouraging. i’ve never had a good experience with mcsweeneys, but i wonder if maybe they just are so swamped with entries they can’t always be encouraging! (they did choose matt’s entry, though, so they can’ t be all bad…)

  7. RENDEZVOUS IN LA CAGOUILLE ZINE Says:
    April 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 am

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