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The following paragraph is from "Writer's Retreat" by Stan Higgins. It was originally published in The Writer in November 1991, volume 104, issue 11, on pages 21-23.

During the day I wash dishes, clean tables, and mop floors. They call it Vocaltional Training. And today, as every day at three p.m., I return to my cozy, bathroom-size suite and drag out my tiny portable. We've all night, just the two of us, my blue typewriter that has been my steady cell-mate for six years, through seven facilities across two states, and I. Today's goal is three pages. I blow dust form the cover and clean the keys. The muse calls. Tack-tack. Tack. Tack-tack-tack. My typewriter sings its staccato song as I search for a fertile word or idea, some harmonious junction of though and paper. Locked in solitary combat with my machine, nothing exists outside my cell, or so I pretend. I type a line. My door opens. Two blue -uniformed guards stand there grinning. "Guess what?" one says "Your number came up".

A) In "Writer's Retreat," Stan Higgins does his chores during the day; and during the nights, he types (21)

B) Whenever Stan Higgins travels, he writes in "Writer's Reteart," he takes his trusty typewriter; during the evenings, he focuses on his writing(21).

C) "Writer's Retreat'" by Stan Higgins explains that Higgins' spends as much of his free time as he possibly can tpying out his ideas on his typewrite-- until he is interrupted. (21)

D) Stan Higgins writes in "Writer's Retreat" that his loyal companion has been his portable typewriter, and his mental escape has been composing original prose (21).