Curse of a Mystery Writer, #5


A couple months ago, I imagined a world in which Hemingway and Fitzgerald discovered Twitter. Today, it’s Shakespeare’s turn.

That’s my interpretation, anyway. What other famous, before-the-time-of-Twitter writers should I tackle?
If you saw this woman at the Olympic games, what would you think?
You’d probably think she was someone’s grandmother, right? And you wouldn’t be wrong. This 74-year-old woman is, in fact, a grandmother. Even a great-grandmother.
And that’s what officials saw as they turned her away from restricted areas, likely assuming she was confused, an elderly lady misdirected on the way to her seat. (more…)