Mark Ewbie Enterprises is closing due to popular demand. The expected, and borrowed against, income has failed to materialize.

There are a number of items now available at low prices:
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• One correcting pen — unused.
• One old typewriter.
• One bowtie — barely worn.
• One writer’s jacket — needs a dry clean.
• One cat — unwanted gift.
• Two hundred articles — barely read.
• One book on “How to Make Money Writing.”
• One pair of “Big Boy” writer’s pants.
• Slippers — not matching.
• Leatherette notepad holder.
• Secondhand Parker “Gold” pen.
• Fifty publicity photos of Mark Ewbie looking intelligent, holding a pipe.
• One pipe.
• Two hundred and thirty-seven business cards — “Mark Ewbie — Writer.” Good for roaches.
• Seventy-five draft articles, mostly about making money.
• Incomplete works of Shakespeare.
• One alarm clock — unused.

Mark would like to thank his loyal reader. The sale is necessary as local rules forbid bonfires due to climate change.