Following our first attempts at adaptation, we’ll try our hands at getting creatively constrained by this (decidedly banal) template. Hat tip (and apologies) to Matt Madden, who will visit our class on Thursday. His 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style is the model for our own efforts here.

Context: apparently laundry machines text you when they’re done at Princeton. I’ve been told this scenario is implausible, because the machines never make mistexts.