Some Complaints
January 30, 2002

Prompt #5: So, I sent in a question a week ago, but you still haven't answered it. What does that mean? Sent in by: Hostile Reader Answer: It means I don't like you. Prompt #6: No, be serious for a... more

Prompt #5: So, I sent
January 30, 2002

Prompt #5: So, I sent in a question a week ago, but you still haven't answered it. What does that mean? Sent in by: Hostile Reader Answer: It means I don't like you. Prompt #6: No, be serious for a... more

That's Showbiz!
January 29, 2002

Prompt #4: I want to hear more about the fickle, backbiting politics in the Austin JUGGLING [name changed] critics' scene. Even though you're not really doing that anymore. But you *must* have anecdotes. I want to see an underbelly, and... more

Prompt #4: I want to
January 29, 2002

Prompt #4: I want to hear more about the fickle, backbiting politics in the Austin JUGGLING [name changed] critics' scene. Even though you're not really doing that anymore. But you *must* have anecdotes. I want to see an underbelly, and... more

For a limited time only,
January 29, 2002

For a limited time only, Sarahhepola.com is taking any and all requests for writing -- questions, prompts, suggestions, blasphemes, and the like. One question will be answered every day. E-mail ideas to sarahhepola@hotmail.com. You send it, I'll write it. Prompt... more

Of Candy Frogs
January 29, 2002

For a limited time only, Sarahhepola.com is taking any and all requests for writing -- questions, prompts, suggestions, blasphemes, and the like. One question will be answered every day. E-mail ideas to sarahhepola@hotmail.com. You send it, I'll write it. Prompt... more

Why I Wish I Lived in the 1800s
January 27, 2002

Prompt #2: Why I wish I lived in the 1800s Sent in by: Aaron Answer in the form of: Dumb school report written by 14-year-old boy Why I Wish I Lived in the 1800s: The Good Life Boy, I wish... more

Prompt #2: Why I wish
January 27, 2002

Prompt #2: Why I wish I lived in the 1800s Sent in by: Aaron Answer in the form of: Dumb school report written by 14-year-old boy Why I Wish I Lived in the 1800s: The Good Life Boy, I wish... more

Prompt #1: A while back,
January 24, 2002

Prompt #1: A while back, you mentioned that you were contemplating a long road trip. Going solo? What do you expect to find? Sent in by: Henry Well, this seemed like an easy one to start with. For those of... more

Question #1
January 24, 2002

Prompt #1: A while back, you mentioned that you were contemplating a long road trip. Going solo? What do you expect to find? Sent in by: Henry Well, this seemed like an easy one to start with. For those of... more

A Solicitation
January 23, 2002

Okay here's the deal. I'm out of ideas. I mean, I can write about five more fatally ill children, but I kind of have to space that out, you know? I don't really feel like writing about the movie I... more

Okay here's the deal. I'm
January 23, 2002

Okay here's the deal. I'm out of ideas. I mean, I can write about five more fatally ill children, but I kind of have to space that out, you know? I don't really feel like writing about the movie I... more

Pipes, the Play
January 17, 2002

CHARACTERS: Pipes -- five year old boy, chalk white skin, the kind you can see his veins through, like blue bolts of lightning under the skin. He may be mentally retarded or just slow or just stubborn, but he is... more

CHARACTERS:Pipes -- five year old
January 17, 2002

CHARACTERS: Pipes -- five year old boy, chalk white skin, the kind you can see his veins through, like blue bolts of lightning under the skin. He may be mentally retarded or just slow or just stubborn, but he is... more

The People's Choice Awards is
January 14, 2002

The People's Choice Awards is quite likely the worst awards show. Ever. Worse than the VH1 Fashion awards or even those embarrassing Blockbuster awards, when none of the winners even bothered to show up. Despite that -- all right, because... more

Who's da Boss?
January 14, 2002

The People's Choice Awards is quite likely the worst awards show. Ever. Worse than the VH1 Fashion awards or even those embarrassing Blockbuster awards, when none of the winners even bothered to show up. Despite that -- all right, because... more

Reading David Foster Wallace, in a Korean Restaurant, Alone
January 12, 2002

So this book is called "Infinite Jest" and it is by David Foster Wallace and it came out in 1992 and it is superlong and profoundly clever and I've been meaning to read it for, like, years and I don't... more

So this book is called
January 12, 2002

So this book is called "Infinite Jest" and it is by David Foster Wallace and it came out in 1992 and it is superlong and profoundly clever and I've been meaning to read it for, like, years and I don't... more

Mr. Lumpyhead was born too
January 06, 2002

Mr. Lumpyhead was born too early to a mother too young. Because she was too young and too fond of things like drugs and alcohol, which help people forget unpleasant realities like their unwanted pregnancy, this too-young mother never bothered... more

The Fabulous, the Terrible Mr. Lumpyhead
January 06, 2002

Mr. Lumpyhead was born too early to a mother too young. Because she was too young and too fond of things like drugs and alcohol, which help people forget unpleasant realities like their unwanted pregnancy, this too-young mother never bothered... more

And Everyone Is in the Graveyard, Jamming
January 01, 2002

Two days ago, one of the kids I work with -- and he is the worst kid, really, the most troubled -- started talking about heaven. He was trying to win an argument over the use of the foster home's... more

Two days ago, one of
January 01, 2002

Two days ago, one of the kids I work with -- and he is the worst kid, really, the most troubled -- started talking about heaven. He was trying to win an argument over the use of the foster home's... more