Evil Editor's Blog, page 381

Face-Lift 706

Guess the Plot

Shadow Cats

1. They creep in at night. They poop in her garden. But no one believes Frieda Elsburger; only she can see them. Can she wage a one woman battle against the Shadow Cats? On her pension? Buy this book to find out. Buy six. She needs the money.

2. Shadassa inherits a fortune, but there's a catch: to get it she must spend a year living alone in the family mansion, which just happens to be occupied by vicious territorial creatures known as shadow cats. It's gonna be a roug...

Cartoon 532

Caption: Anon.

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Face-Lift 705

This is an old Face-Lift. In reading through last year's stuff to prepare for end-of-year awards, I noticed that there were two with the same number, and rather than renumber everything from that point forward, I moved the extra post here to the end. No need to comment, though you're welcome to do so.

Guess the Plot

Prey for the Church

1. Gay people, rational thought, those who ask too many questions, gay people...

2. A devout Evangelical Protestant goes undercover at the census bureau and change...

Face-Lift 704

Guess the Plot

Sector C

1. In 2000 Ted blew his mind eating 'psychedelic' cookies and he has been drooling in Sector C of the hospital ever since. That's what his trust fund administrator says. But when terrorists release a photo of their captured 'spy' who looks and sounds just like Ted, his sister Sarah realizes he actually joined the CIA in 1999, like he said he would. So who is that guy in . . . Sector C???

2. Medical student Lou Nash takes the wrong elevator on his way to Histology and gets...

Cartoon 532

Caption: Nanoquill

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New Beginning 710 (Chapter opening)

There were no screens on the long windows in the old houses on Third Street, and mostly no curtains either, but only wavy panes of old glass, or new thinner glass where any wavy panes had been cracked or broken. As the weather got warmer, the windows stayed open, even in the backs of the houses by the fire escapes, like no one believed anyone would ever want to climb inside to do them harm.

The houses were all the same, lined up one side and down the other on the street; and if you stood out i...

Cartoon 531

Caption: Mother (Re)produces

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Feedback Request

A revised version of New Beginning 707 is in the comments there. The author would like your opinion.

Writing Exercise Results . . .

Are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene involving Evil Editor, Marriage Counselor.

EE, Marriage Counselor 7

They entered my office as if they owned the place. Who did they think they were, anyway? Expanding my practice to counseling idiots had seemed a logical step, but as my first clients took a seat on the couch I now realized it meant actual contact with the annoying. Unless . . . unless I ran the sessions from a chat room. It made sense. I'm the kind of guy who develops an immediate hatred of people whose voices I find even mildly abrasive. In a chat room I wouldn't hear what they sounded like....