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We can start with 4 people, since anybody can guess and 4 is a large enough pool to guess from, 5 including myself.

Let's use T_Smith's original rules:

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Ok, here's how it goes. I post a story/excerpt someone sent me. You try and guess who it is from the list I provided. I won't tell you how many people sent in submissions. This is how you score points:

4 points for a critique and a guess
2 points for a guess and a rationale
2 more points if your guess with a critique/rational is correct
1 point for critiquing yourself
-10 points for a guess without rationale or critique

Once you have a critique down, you get points for it. If you make a rational guess, but are incorrect you have to do a rational again, or at least say "for same reasons I stated before". You do not get points for a critique or rational for saying "what he said". You have to at least say what that person said in your own words for credit.

You can critique your own work for one point, but you can not give away you are the author. If you want, you can try to be sneaky and guess other people, with a rational, but you won't get points for it.

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You guys can submit your writings to my email address, it's listed on my Hatrack profile. I'll post one for guessing once I have a large enough pool of writers.

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On about the 7th ring, Lindy picked it up.

“Lindy.”

“Yeah.”

“I’m stuck.”

“Stuck?”

“Up here in Duluth.” I took a deep breath. “The car kind of died.”

“It what?”

“It ran out of oil. It brought me all the way to the waterfront and then it died.”

There was a long pause. I hated those. It meant there were issues to talk through.

“Still there, Lindy?”

More pause. “How are you going to get back down here?”

“Um,” I said. “Bus. Rental car. I haven’t figured it out yet.”

“And the car?”

“I don’t know. Everything’s closed that would take a car.”

“So the car is done?”

“Yeah.”

Another long pause. In misery, I watched an older couple walk slowly toward the hostess’ desk. Did they ever have silences like this?

“Well, you’ll think of something,” said Lindy.

“Yeah, I know,” I said. “I’ll figure something out.”

“Jim.”

“Yeah?”

“I don’t know.”

“Don’t know what?”

“It’s just like I feel like I’m barely hanging on. Up here. I don’t know.”

“Oh.”

“But I’ll see you later. Okay?”

“Yeah. Okay.”

I hung up the phone and marched out of Grandma’s and back down Canal Street to where the Caddy was parked. I had that energy you get when you’ve got this really stressful situation and nothing you can do about it. It focused my mind. I walked up to the Caddy, gave it a hard stomp in the front fender with the flat of my foot, and then walked on. I crossed the street, walked east a couple blocks, and found the Best Western.

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