Challenge accepted! Ahem. I found this to be a really ironic prompt. It expands upon the prompt for this prompt, with what I consider to be an acceptable use of the two-sentence limit placed on this entry. It is a creative use of the prompt word "newspaper." There are just so many directions the author could have gone with the prompt for their prompt. I like the Western, time-travel potentials that their entry offers. Only one real character is offered by their prompt, the ambiguous first-person narrator. It suggests that any response to this prompt would in fact be a first-person narrative. I wonder if it will be possible to smoothly add in another point of view to this mix, perhaps an unreliable narrator that is in fact the main character's foil? The possibilities for good fiction to come of this prompt make me miss the days when this contest alternated between prompt rounds and the round where you would write a story based on the last round's winning prompt. To me this prompt is a real winner whether it wins the contest or not.

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