What stories can you make from these headlines?

Try these on for size... you can create your own characters to fit the headlines or maybe take a character "type" from one of the stories in the news and create a whole new scenario for that character.

Another interesting thing to do is to use a character that you've already created for another work and plunk them down inside one of these headlines and see what happens next.

You can also take characters from one story and have them interact with characters from another news story or perhaps switch characters altogether - let them live the other one's circumstances, in other words.

It's all up to you, Writer. Click on any headline to go to that real news story for more details (if you need them).

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France to Shut Off Internet for Pirate Users

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The Mysterious Case of the AP Photographer

Feds May Fund Terror, Report Says

Insurer Dropped Sick Patients to Save Money

RI hospital fined for surgery error

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