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July 13, 2010

Success Story


John reports that his short story, "Whole Lada Love," tied for first place in the Foreign Service Journal's annual fiction contest. The FSJ is the magazine of the professional association of the U.S. foreign service.

Here's a link to the page where the story starts: Whole Lada Love. You can fiddle with the page number gizmo at the top to read to the end.

John's query for The Crane's Beak appeared here recently.[image error]
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Published on July 13, 2010 18:50

Wanted!


Fake plots for The Mapmaker of Merivale.
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Published on July 13, 2010 06:25

Book Chat


Okay, who wants to attend the book chat and can/can't make it Sunday the 18th at 10 AM eastern?









Also, regarding The Hunger Games, I just finished book 2, Catching Fire. If others want to read that and include it in the chat (it continues the story), we can push that chat into August to allow extra time.
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Published on July 13, 2010 06:12

New Beginning 766

"Can I help you, mother?" I asked the old woman coming out of the department store.

"Thank you, dear girl," she warbled from behind the stack of purchases. She was bent forward with age and backward with the weight of her cargo, turning her into a wobbly Z-shape in a shawl. I snatched off the top few packages and slung them under one arm. This revealed me in her field of vision, and she glowered, clearly thinking she'd been tricked into accepting my help. Which she had.

Rojo didn't have anythin...
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Published on July 13, 2010 05:38

Cartoon 685

Caption: Anon.

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Published on July 13, 2010 04:11

Cartoon 688

Caption: Anon.

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Published on July 13, 2010 04:11

July 12, 2010

Face-Lift 795


Guess the Plot

Love Like the French

1. Hot sticky buns dripping with white sauce from a well packed sausage amidst the moans of "ooooh", "ahhhh", and "oo la la"; the smells and sound of Rococo delight permeating throughout the entire hall. Nobody knows food love like the French!

2. Celie La Belle has sold millions of books about her life in a little French town. But when a disgruntled ex decides to expose her as Sherry Brewster of Dayton, well, c'est la merde.

3. Dana is obsessed with romanc...
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Published on July 12, 2010 06:50

Cartoon 684

Caption: John

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Published on July 12, 2010 04:08

Cartoon 687

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Published on July 12, 2010 04:08

July 11, 2010

Writing Exercise Results . . .


are in the posts below. The task was to write a hard-boiled detective scene whose first two sentences were chosen from a list of minion submissions.[image error]
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Published on July 11, 2010 07:22

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