NOT IN KANSAS ANY MORE!

With the recent release of "OZ: The Great and Powerful" the vision of L. Frank Baum gets a refreshing and more high-tech treatment. We know the tale of Dorothy Gale and her dog landing in an incredible place of fantasy. 

Your mission is to get caught up in the middle of the twister and land in the "Mysterious Land of (INSERT YOUR PLACE OF BIRTH HERE)". What three characters (related to your home) do you encounter and write a brief scene to depict your imaginings.

What's up?

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Whatever is up there? 
Is it true that what goes up must come down... 
...or are things really looking up? 
You decide.

FLASH FORWARD FICTION

There have been many movie romances depicted on the Silver Screen.

Boy meets girl, Boy loses Girl,...

Happy endings sound like the perfect conclusion,

but we want you to take the Danny/Sandy (Grease),
 Scarlett/Rhett (Gone With the Wind), Edward/Bella (Twilight),

Rick/Ilsa (Casablanca), or any other romantic movie pairings and project them into their future selves. 

How did they REALLY end up? Happy Ever After or Crappy Never More?

12 Angry Men

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I'm on jury duty this week, so I thought this might be an interesting prompt...what would you do to convince 11 other people - people who have strongly different ideas and beliefs - to agree to 'go along' with your way of thinking? What if you're wrong?  What if you know you're wrong?