Evil Editor's Blog, page 392

Feedback Request

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Face-Lift 694

Guess the Plot

Writer's Block

1. 101 excuses to use when your family, friends, and complete strangers ask why you're not published. Also, ways to get words on a page without saying anything important, constructive, or plot-based.

2. After Joe breaks his writer's block by writing himself into his book, things get strange and soon he finds he can't do anything that he hasn't already done in the book. He tries writing that he won the lottery and got lucky with Madge, but all that stuff happens to h...

Cartoon 507

Caption: Anon.

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New Beginning 699

The staleness of the small room was not yet evident and It was always like this in the morning. Nothing smelled. Not hardly hot nor cold or bright or dull. It just was. Mornings were always new and foreign at least for a moment…seconds, whatever. He was never for sure how long morning innocence lasted. Usually until he opened his eyes paused and took his first eyes wide opened breath. He broke the pause for a moment and took gaze around the room. The yellowed peeling walls with the...

Cartoon 506

Caption: Voter

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Book Chat News

As I mentioned in an earlier post , the November book is out of print. It's still available from various sellers you can find at ebay, amazon.com, alibris, and other places on the web. As some places may not ship as quickly as others, best to order the book now if you haven't already. The author will be attending, so a good turnout would be nice.

The last Saturday in November is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Not a problem for me, but if you wish to attend and have plans we might look for a ...

Face-Lift 693

Guess the Plot

Shadows and Dust

1. All through his childhood, Simon Jones felt a stark, unreasoning dread at the thought of the locked door at the end of the corridor. Now, he stands before it, the key in his hand - but what will he find, when he goes through into the disused attic?

2. Granny's house had been boarded up for years--then Granny appears from the dusty house, 100% zombified. It's pretty hard to fight a zombie that feeds you cookies before eating your brains.

3. After teleporting into...

Cartoon 505

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Writing Exercise Results . . .

are in the posts below. The task was a Halloween horror story with the option of an audio presentation.

Tale of Terror 3

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It was a stormy and dark night. Wolves howled. Bats flapped. Uncannily reconstituted hulks of man-flesh clutched at metal bolts driven into their necks and muttered, 'what the fuck's all this crap?' And Evil Editor sat on the edge of his bed, teasing fluff from his navel with a pencil.

Blackened whorls of foulness popped onto the duvet: hair, gunge, compacted cockroaches, and a bent dime from 1971.

Then — a snake's head!

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