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<span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">''' | <span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large">'''L'''ate Summer is the time when the week-long Sidewalk Art Festival is held. This annual event is prepared for very carefully. Serious precautions are taken to ensure everyone's safety. Extra guards blockade both ends of the selected street. They then suspend tarps to block the zombies' view of the street. Next, numerous lines are suspended overhead, half a block beyond either end of the street. These diversionary lines are strung with brightly colored umbrellas to swing in the breeze. (We don't actually know if the shambling dead see colors, but we like the way the umbrellas look and the undead are distracted by their movement. It's always fun to enjoy coffee and a cupcake and watch them moaning at the umbrellas while clawing the air, as if they could grab them.) To add to the festive mood, each year a daredevil band of volunteers ties bunches of helium-filled balloons to the zombies. Art contestants register and are assigned a space on the freshly-scrubbed pavement. There the artists spend the week executing their compositions in chalk on the concrete slabs. It's also a full-fledged street fair complete with food booths, and games like Quoits'''*''' and Cornhole'''**'''. Everyone always has a fine time. At the end of the week, a committee of local leaders judge the chalk masterpieces. The runners-up are awarded their prizes first, then the Grand Prize winner is announced. He or she is the guest of honor at a feast that marks the conclusion of the week's celebrations. | ||
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<br><br><span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large"><br><br><br><span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large"><font size="5">'''There's lots to do in Rolt Heights'''</font>™ <br><br><br><font size="6">'''Don't miss our | <br><br><span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large"><br><br><br><span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;color:#008080;font-size:large"><font size="5">'''There's lots to do in Rolt Heights'''</font>™ <br><br><br><font size="6">'''Don't miss our late Summer specials!'''</font><br><br><br><font size="6.5">'''Our special - Cupcake colors for Art Week!'''</font> | ||
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Revision as of 06:22, 6 June 2019
The McMurtrie Building, Rolt Heights [88,12]
Isabel "Bizzy" Bowers of Malibu, California, USA, is the proprietor of Book Bizarre in the beautiful McMurtrie Building [88,12] in Rolt Heights. She was visiting cousins in Malton when the outbreak began, trapping her as it did so many others.
There are whispers around the neighborhood, not even rumours really, that Bizzy must be a witch because in spite of all the attacks, the interior of the book shop is still lovely. Bizzy just smiles and shakes her head, then laughs that if she were actually in league with the forces of darkness she'd be doing a lot better than an odd store on the edge of a ruined city. We aren't so sure. "People make their own luck. It's old saying but it's true," Bizzy assures us with a wink and encouragement to finish our coffee cake. She thanks us for coming by to interview her and bustles off, exuding an air of invincibility, to polish some brass or whip up a new batch of blueberry scones in her fabulous shop.
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