need help catching plagarist

[markuskidd]

I'm in a creative writing workshop, and one of the stories I'm critiquing is only a slightly digested regurgitation of a short story I read a long time ago in my eigth grade english textbook. It's a quasi-science fiction story about a family (whose name is maybe an anagram of saccharine) who go to extreme lengths to avoid water. The twist comes when someone (or maybe all of them?) get wet -- I believe maybe caught in the rain -- and dissolve. At this point you realize they're made of sugar.

Can anyone help me with the title, author, or both? I hate annoying &#$# like this............

 

[conjur]

narc!


Story doesn't ring a bell.

 

[EyeMWing]

Tell the instructor - they have ways (And copies of every textbook ever published)

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

ah! i recall that story. no idea of the title and such tho.

hope you catch the punk

 

[StageLeft]

Bump. Nail his ass!

 

[dpm]

Isaac Asimov Rain, rain, go away

 

[filmmaker]

Originally posted by: dpm
Isaac Asimov <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/writersmodel/pdf/W_P0902.pdf" target=blank>Rain, rain, go away</A>

Damn, beat me to it!

 

[sygyzy]

Man that's so funny.

 

[markuskidd]

danke danke
I will post again if anything interesting develops. And I hope it does -- this isn't even a GOOD Asimov knockoff lol.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: markuskidd
danke danke
I will post again if anything interesting develops. And I hope it does -- this isn't even a GOOD Asimov knockoff lol.

He should write a follow-up: I, Plagiarist.

-geoff

 

[conjur]

BTW, folks, it's plagiarist!

 

[Ameesh]

try to blackmail him first

 

[StageLeft]

Link to story doesn't work.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Link to story doesn't work.

It's a PDF file. Works fine here.

 

[DurocShark]

Gawd... If you're gonna steal an Asimov story, do Nightfall or I, Robot. Something WORTH stealing. LoL