Evil Editor's Blog, page 343

Feedback Request

The query featured in Face-Lift 740 has been revised. The new version is in the comments there, awaiting your input.

New Beginning 742

It was said that to end a war quickly, one had only to lose. By that measure, at least the hell he was in wouldn't last much longer. Janto squinted, searching for a telltale shimmer in the air. There it was. Good. The invisibility shroud still covered his men.

"Volley!" cried one of the soldiers.

Incoming arrows soared up from the chasm, too far forward this time. They would miss. Still, no sense taking chances. His men took cover behind their shields, and he ducked behind his own, a pavise lar...

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Caption: Anon.

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Writing Exercise

What is more exciting to the intellectual mind than the process of deductive reasoning, as demonstrated by its master, Sherlock Holmes? And what is more amusing than that process satirized and carried to absurd lengths? Write a scene in which Evil Editor consults with Holmes in his Baker Street rooms.

Never read Holmes? Chapter one of The Hound of the Baskervilles shows him at his best.

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Feedback Request

A new version of the query featured in Face-Lift 735 is now in the comments there, awaiting your reaction.[image error]

Face-Lift 748

Guess the Plot

The Shadow's Edge

1. After his family moves to the deep south, Julien is treated like an outsider. He has no close friends. And just when he thinks things can't get any worse . . . Hitler invades! The shadow of the Third Reich has a long reach.

2. Hank Horowitz always thought of his shadow as an out-of-focus, benevolent figure that followed him around. But when he finds his shaving cream replaced with denture adhesive, and discovers he's unable to go half a block without encounter...

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Book Chat Reminder

The April chat is earlier in the month than usual, and earlier in the day than usual in order to accommodate the author's schedule.

April 19, 2010, 4:30 P.M.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Nonfiction), Anne Fadiman

The book was winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, 1997.

The author hopes to attend the chat.

Don't wait too long to get it and read it and, if necessary, to make your plans to sneak out of work early.[image error]

Feedback Request

A new version (v.4) of the query featured in Face-Lift 729 is now in the comments there, awaiting your opinion.[image error]

New Beginning 741

There stands a bridge in the northern country, a bridge nigh as ancient as the mountains in which it stands, a bridge so high in the mists that it is scarcely real, and it is with this arch from solidity to solidity that our story begins.

It is the dead of an autumn night, the sort of night where the cold seeps into your bones—the cold of dead adventurers' stony graves, hidden deep from the sun's light in the folds of the mountain. Farther down the mountain, below the tree line, the pines rust...