So this is pretty amazing. A guy wrote a story. It involved first-person language about spying on a semi-naked woman and murdering a homeless man, as well as volunteering to defend our country. Someone (quite possibly a disgruntled wikipedia user who was banned) called the school where writer-guy is a grad student and told them about the story, complaining that it looked suspicious. Writer-guy (okay, his name is Phil Sandifer) was subsequently investigated by the police, asked for fingerprints, etc. Apparently writing about stalking and murdering makes you a suspect for actually doing those things. No one asked him if he was actually thinking about defending our country.

The backstory is pretty interesting if you care to look into all the links, as well. Perhaps we should rework our action comedy to be, as one commenter suggested, all around the themes of candy and clouds?

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