John, I'm not offended, just disturbed by such a bizzare twist of fate.
Dee.

John, just one of those coincidences, they do happen a lot. If you remember the news article about a small girl being dragged into the air by an air baloon some months back, well, a novel written,... there goes my memory again,... by one of our well known authors, had a similar accident in the first chapter, he wrote it maybe two years or more before the event.
The horror about the school boy murder was as much to do with the quiet orderliness of the place it happened in, as the event itself. Stabbings etc being common in big cities, but not in country settings.

Hilary, that was an interesting article. They were implying the experiment wasn't working, which is probably what we're finding guessing at it, except that we'd have to have a huge number of samples and the same number of guessers, and see what percentage got it right etc. to really know if it's possible to tell.

Ha ha! I'm really pleased. I went to that link Hilary posted and pasted in my entry for the original gender comp. on WW (Revenge) and the word analysis thingy pronounced that it was 486 to 146 written by a MALE!

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It says I'm male for the one in this forum too. I'm getting worried now.

Whew!

That's a relief then. I kept cutting and pasting small letters which kept coming up 60% male.

I then tried ( as it said ) to submit larger items. I submitted one of about 1500.

Guess what? 93% male!

Worrying.

Hilary.

Shakespeare never wrote a word... it wasn't Bacon but a woman by the name of Wendeline Laura Arbuthnot a country lass who specialised in growing vegetables.

May we have some more pieces from Members, please?

Len

Right on one count Len, but I truly believe it was Edward de Vere who was the author of all those plays and sonnets. The evidence is compelling, and this is a fascinating site that's sure to convince you:

http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/

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And Hilary, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Len, unless I've managed to forget someone by accident, I believe we have run out of scenes to post.

well, it seems another has arrived:

The smallest things, he thought. A word. A look. Reflection in a glass. He put down the mirror. Pocketed the lipstick. Turned to confront Angel, standing there with arms hanging limp and hands clear of both holsters but that look in the eyes, pitiless embers in deep slow-burn. You or me, he thought, yet had to smile because this was so stupid, so pointless. So macho. Violence was off the edge of the alphabet: who were you going to persuade when they weren’t around to hear the argument? He edged off the bar stool. Heard the folds of the gingham skirt chafing at the sudden silence. Waited a moment longer, then felt the hot stinging shock of the hand upon his face. Once. Twice. Come on, he thought. This is crazy. But the eyes still burned and the hands still blurred so he squeezed the trigger of the little derringer, sent flame flickering out of the pocket in the pink checkered fabric. Finally, he eased back down onto the stool. Placed the Derringer on the bar top next to the make-up mirror. Looked at both and thought: yeah. The smallest things.

This is male.
I think it's a double bluff, packed with feminine words to make us think that it was written by a female hand. But I think not.
Definitely male! Unless of course, it's a double-double-bluff!
No. Male!

John

I think it's a man.

There's just something I feel is not quite right about pocketing the lipstick.

I can't quite put my finger on why.

Do we get points for guessing who actually wrote this?

Hilary.

It is a female writer who is trying to pretend to be a male writer by selecting a story with the 'John Wayne' in drag feel about it, then trying to confuse readers with other red herrings. Votes for Women!

I think it's a woman, and could hazard a guess as to who...

hello.. been away for a while and see more has been posted..this is a woman despite the staccato style..
Ellie..

Woman. Nice writing I thought.