Evil Editor's Blog, page 443

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New Beginning 645

At sixteen, Martha kidnapped her surrogate son Karl from their private prison and the only home they had ever known. IKG Psinetics, the most sophisticated genetics laboratory on Earth, created, raised and trained her to be the best at something. But they never told her what that something was. The anonymous staff taught her nine tongues fluently and a survivable grasp of twenty more. She was a biopid, pronounced like myopic, they told her, a genetically modified human. She learned a barrage of e

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Feedback Request

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More Success

Barbara Gordon reports that she has been offered representation after submitting the following query, put together after reading minions' critique and comments on (Face Lift 579) on this blog.

Dear Ms. ,

Fairy tales leave much unspoken. Would a mistreated orphan be beautiful and meek, or scrawny and stubborn? Those heroines wandering the forest, how did they survive? Did they know they were heroines, or did they doubt, and wonder if they would live to see a happy ending?

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Success Story

Writtenwyrdd reports that her story "What Mother Never Told You" whose opening appeared as New Beginning 437 will be published in Electric Spec ezine, volume IV, Issue 2 to be released on June 30, 2009.[image error]

Face-Lift 638

Guess the Plot

TimeSplash

1. If you could go back in time and assassinate Lenin, would you? When a German "timesplasher" answers Yes, it falls to his girlfriend Sandra to go back to 1902 and prevent the alteration of history.

2. If you could go back in time and assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm, would you? Michael Brownkite answered Yes and now finds himself in pre-WWI Europe. Finishing his mission is the only way to return to 2009, but will he leave behind his new love, Gwendolyn?

3. Hanna Murphy, author

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Writing Exercise Results . . .

. . . are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene using the first ten 7+-letter nouns from a randomly chosen Face-Lift on this blog.[image error]

Writing Exercise Result 12

In his office, Evil Editor grinned as he watched the mercury rising. Global warming was good for business; think of the potential plots! Even better than a hydrogen bomb dropping on Manhattan, but that was too much to hope for. Anything would be better than things like this, a query submitted by a government scientist:

Ralph walked calmly through the throngs clogging the airport terminal, in much the same way that neutrinos pass undisturbed through ordinary matter...

Or this attempt to fuse the