Post #7 - Something to Lose

The weather is changeable these days, some times warms, on other days the cold lingers. One never knows when some small change can cause other changes. This morning a heavy fog arrives. A fog so thick that the Foxberry is lost in the clouds and a person can barely see a few feet in front of themselves. The fog persists all day.

Sometimes you can feel it coming.  That little tickle in the back of your mind. Things seem to be going okay, but you know something is just around the corner. Like the fog, you sense it before you see it.  Something you don't want to happen, but you know it will. You just can't stop it from happening.  Like the poker hand you know you shouldn't play. Even if you are the best at bluffing your way through the hand, you know you should just fold. Here at The Foxberry, there are many who played that one-too-many hand and lost. Then there are others who folded early, knowing that the house always wins, or they know their limits. They are playing the long game.

On this day, everyone, I mean everyone, looses something important to them. It could be the lucky penny they've had since elementary school, or the last $100 dollars that they withdrew from their bank account, or the need to understand life's deepest mysteries. The city itself seems to have lost a few things.  The gas stations have little gas, the buses aren't running because of a strike, and the coffee shop is runs out of coffee and can only offer tea, smoothies, and hot chocolate.

News of the investigation comes and goes.  There are those who listen to the news and others who just as soon let it go and move on.  Below, are the results from the writer's survey. You should decide at this point how much you are willing to engage in the creation of the group story. If you want to be part of solving the mystery, then you need to engage with other characters who wish to do so as well and be willing to be flexible. This involvement means to be timely in responding to other participants and complete your blog on time.

·                    Solve the murder – these characters should provide a clue or join the power plant group.

o   Regan - provide a clue

o   Billy Bob and Jackie- want out of the group, so gives us a clue

o   Frankie- “kinda” - give a clue?

o   Stephanie Lovett – since she had a vision, she may need to join the OG-6

o   Meredith –  join the OG-6?

o   Stephanie Greene – would be kinda funny if the two Stephanie’s joined the OG-6 and everyone keeps getting the two mixed-up. (comic relief)

·                  Possibly the killer of Mr. Evans –oddly both of the possible perps want both a happy and a                   sad ending. 

o   Dorothy

o   Huncho- just note, Huncho, Mr. Evans is a nice, old man with no ties to drug rings. 

·                   OG – 6 :

o   Bret, Ren, Evelyn – Rose is joining

·               Bea solves the murder

o   Probably solves it, depends on the others. Probably should join the OG 6

·               The following characters, want to be a part of the happiness to make this place better, and do not want to be part of the solving of the crime.

o   Shawn doesn’t care as long as he has a happy ending

o   Aydar could go either way, good or bad or both

o   Noah is just trying to move no with or without the ghosts following him.

o   Ironically, Boots wants a happy ending

o   Godfrey says “probably.” Commit, Godfrey, commit.

o   Azula gets out of the OG- 6

o   Quan wants to continue to smoke pot, write rap music and be happy

o   Donna just wants to work at the G. Bee, remember Mr. Evans as a good guy and focus on her family.

·               Have not so happy of an ending, maybe die or move away

o   Elwood wants to die- emphatic in that request… I believe he should start the cycle of death again, at the end. Maybe a murder, or maybe something that looks like a murder.

o   Bret

o   Rose

o   Billy Bob

o   Regan

o   Frankie – “sure”

o   Jackie – “maybe”

o   Stephanie L – will you see your own demise but too late to do anything about it?

POST DUE Feb. 26th 

Post #6 - Come one, Come all

"Come, one, come all," advertised the posters that began appearing around town about a week ago.
"For one night only, come see the most spectacular show on earth!" Those at the Foxberry needed this
amusement.

So when the red and white-striped trucks drove in early Friday morning, there was already a line of people
around the block waiting to buy tickets.

Under the old and rusting water tank, the tents were lifted and staked-down, the carousel assembled, and
and food trucks parked under the trees, which were just beginning to bud.

The Master of Ceremony was trying to catch his annoying monkey. "Binky! Binky!" He shouted, "Get down
here now!" The crazy little monkey was hopping around the trapeze troop who were doing a good job
ignoring him.

Most people buying tickets were interested in the wild animals. The horses strolled around the grounds turning
a curious eye toward those who were watching them. The tiger, with sad eyes, paced back and forth across
the front of his cage. Most gave him a wide berth.

The occasional bark or yip from the pack of various sized dogs somewhere amid the tents, echo against the
water tank, sending the shouts across the town. Many of the high school students mill around on the steps of
Taft's statue taking selfies with the circus in the background.

By the time the sun went down, the starlights draped all around and up the struts of the water tanks, lit the scene.
Not a single citizen was left in either pizza place or coffee shop. 

And finally, Mr. Evan's murderer sneaks into the police station and steals all the evidence of the murder investigation.

Post due Wednesday, Feb. 13 by class time.  You should include the circus. Since this is the 6th "plague," you should include something about the wild animals.  (Like in Song of Solomon the "wild wilderness.") You could, of course, be metaphoric in this wild wilderness. Something that your character cannot seem to control.