Evil Editor's Blog, page 455

New Beginning 632

So this was the place at last. The forbidden road ended in a small stone-paved yard surrounded by brambles. Beyond the yard was a high wall overgrown with dead vines that covered everything but the door.

The night before I had dreamed of that door as a black gaping mouth through which my younger sister Arli passed laughing with her daughter Suli cradled—prisoned—in her arms. It opened into a windowless chamber hung with tapestries. A gold-mailed serpent with human eyes uncoiled itself from a carv

Cartoon 374

Caption: WO

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Book Chat Reminder

Thursday, 6 PM eastern.[image error]

Face-Lift 626

Guess the Plot

The Lonesome Isle

1. Searching a small island for her dead mother, Elizabeth crosses into a parallel universe. Is her mother somewhere in this universe? Before she can begin looking she must first defeat a malicious creature bent on world domination.

2. Oahu decides to relocate a little closer to the big island and sets off nonstop tsunamis and underwater volcanos as it makes the move. Only submariner Sonya Turner can save the day, but her propeller's broken.

3. Timmy didn't believe t

Cartoon 373

Caption: Anon.

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Success Story

Bill Highsmith reports that a flash fiction piece inspired by Dialogue Scene 21 on this blog has been published by AbyssAndApex.com in the flash fiction section.

Bill also reports selling a humor/SF piece called "Discerning Women," to FlashFictionOnline.com in the current edition (April), and an SF story, "Qubit Slip" to an online anthology, Thoughtcrime Experiments (Thoughtcrime.crummy.com).

After three stories sold in April, Bill anticipates a lengthy lull.[image error]

New Beginning 631

Okay, I put this title in the query queue without reading it. (It came in an email titled " . . . working on a graphic novel want sound advice.") On the one hand, it could be an attempt to write a clever query in the POV of a character, but I'm pretty sure it's the opening. However, I'm posting some fake plots so those who submitted fakes won't feel their efforts were wasted.

Guess the Plot

Mermaid Country

1. Genetic manipulation has gone too far. Passenger Pigeons are darkening the skies over Lond

Cartoon 372

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Feedback Request

The query for the book featured in Face-Lift 590 has a new version in the comments there. The author would like you to take a look and give your opinion.[image error]

Writing Exercise Results . . .

. . . are in the posts below. Nice turnout.

The task was to write a scene featuring a book, a scene on which an amusing Evil Editor film featuring a book might be based.[image error]