Writer's Block: Set the Scene

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For me, only one setting REALLY creeps me out: murky water. I have to resolutely ignore the murkiness when I go to the beach. Even a murky pool is creepy enough that I generally avoid them.

It's rare one finds a truly literate loon...

But when you do, it can be mindbogglingly spectacular. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you: Mary W. Walters.

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Note that all this comes from someone who DOES NOT YET HAVE AN AGENT, so it's not as though I'm defending agents out of personal self interest. I'm doing it because I ran headlong into the lunacy, and it was too funny not to respond to.