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Weekly Contest #87
For some reason I’ve always been drawn to tricksters. When I worked for the Seem-To-Be Players Children’s Theatre I convinced the theatre manager/director to do a series of trickster tales. The company did several skits based on research I did about tricksters, drawing from Native American, Black American, Euro-American, and Hispanic American stories about tricksters. The Trickster Tales were very well-liked by the children and by their teachers. Maybe this experience led me to play my own tricks. I bought a rubber spider, an ugly black thi...
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