Wattpad has teamed up with Hulu, offering a contest in which authors submit 500-word short stories tied in with The Handmaids' Tale. This one had several days' gestation and with a little nudge from my subconscious overnight last night, this is what came out. The nifty thing is, it's so short you can read the entire story in the link I've pasted below. That said, if you choose to vote on it (and that would, I think, be helpful as this is a contest) it will be appreciated. OK, here goes.

          As Laurie Scheer would say, "Enjoy the read!"
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          I'm gearing up for the Willamette Writer's conference in early August and want to have all eight novellas posted here on Chicago Storyworks before then. I'll post "Eilixir" after a few days but for now, here's "Resurrexit." If the titles seem suggestive, I am a Joseph Campbell/ Chris Vogler disciple. I also took to heart Blake Snyder's (of "Save the Cat" fame) comment several years back as I drove him to O'Hare. He was in the midst of evaluating the fifty movies he had chosen for "Save the Cat Goes to the Movies." He was waxing philosophical, gazing straight ahead out the windshield and said, "They're all the Christ story, Dirk." So, death, resurrection, salvation--as in "Morte," "Resurrect," and "Elixir."
          Without further ado, . . .
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