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Wishlist Winter 2009/2010

• A story told entirely in screenshots
• A piece that would require us to print in the gutter
• 4 pieces that require you to show your math
• A sad story with a pun in every sentence
• An untrustworthy biography
• 1 story of heroism ending with the word "sandwich"
• 1 police blotter
• 16 missed connections
• 2 ransom notes
• 2 responses to ransom notes
• 2 stories written in bad faith
• 4 stories, fictional or not, that would embarrass the author if we printed them
• 3 choose-your-own adventures
• 3 adventures you chose on your own
• 2 poems that require legal advice
• 2 poems that require bodyguards
• Proof that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
• 1 intellectual property rights minefield
• 1 story torn from a book-keeping badger
• 1 poem in anagrams
• 3 of the saddest sentences ever written
• 1 engaging Powerpoint presentation
• 3 poems that would make good pets
• 2 stories written in the form of menus
• 5 stories containing no characters
• 17 one-line poems
• 1 story in which the narrator passionately hates the reader, real or implied
• 1 "real" essay on the subject of "fake" essays
• 1 "fake" essay on the subject of "real" essays
• 3 stories starring historical personages
• 1 story designed for easy disassembly and transport
• 1 story torn from a bookkeeping ledger
• 1 mathematical proof
• 4 stories that involve giant animals in some way
• 3 poems or stories based on internet memes
• 1 ode written in code
• 6 detonated bombs
• 2 poems you wouldn't show your mother
• 2 poems you wouldn't show your father
• 1 poem in the form of restaurant orders called out by the expediter and shouted back by the line cooks
• 3 halves of a story
• 1 game code that unlocks a secret level
• 3 instants
• 3 instances
• A couple good jokes
• 1 story that is entirely true
• 1 story that is entirely truthful
• 1 story that is entirely "true"
• A dictionary in miniature
• An encyclopedia in miniature
• A thesaurus in miniature