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• Lesson 4: use of setting
• Assignment 4

"Its major importance would appear to be financial support of the surgical profession."

Alfred Sherwood Romer and Thomas S. Parsons, explaining the role of the human appendix, in The Vertebrate Body

Assignment 4

The assignment this week is to write the first sentence for ten different short stories. The tutor intends to choose one and I suspect he is going to make us write a short story using it!

[Later] The ten first lines, for what they're worth, can be seen here