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To: Stan who wrote (2204)	10/18/2006 11:56:06 PM
From: Honor First	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2633

"In the bottom of the drawer, I found the gun," it has a lot more drama.""""""""""" This could be either the first OR the last sentence and you could fashion a story around it being either one :)

To: Stan who wrote (2204)	10/19/2006 12:33:57 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2633

For the very reasons you suggest, poets make the best fiction writers. John Straley and Richard Hugo both wrote very fine mystery novels. Straley is more well known for his mysteries than Hugo, but Hugo's "Death and the Good Life" was mesmerizing. Hugo was the poet laureate of Montana. Straley still lives and writes from Sitka Alaska. Hugo called himself a poet of place. I've been many of the localities in which "Death and the Good Life" takes place, and I kid you not, my skin started to crawl when I read it. I could almost tell which motel room or which bar he was in. If you get a chance, by all means look them both up. amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com Another poet-mystery writer, James Crumley, was a protege of Hugo's. amazon.com