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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 81
First Sentence Saturdays:
Billy Jo didn’t know what to do when she realized her toddler, Randy, was controlling the weather.
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 80
General Stuff Fridays:
My friend Ami’s clan was a laughingstock, but she wore her family’s colors proudly. Where the rest of us wore earth colors, colors taken from our natural fibers, our animal skins and furs, her clan dyed wool to be brightly colored. They did a bad job of hunting after that, bright red tunics [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 79
Scenes Thursdays:
When Wal-Mart put in the world’s largest kids’ ball pit, Johnny was thrilled, but it made my breath catch in my throat.
Never mind the fact that as a doctor, she feared what germs and diseases lurked in such places. It was the other things that lived there. As a child, she had spent [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 78
Macguffin Wednesdays:
Dump trucks have fascinated me - they’re huge, powerful, spraying rocks dirt on the road, destroying windshields and blocking vision. They’re usually too dirty to identify where they’re working, and most don’t even have license plates.
Is it just me, or is a dump truck the best spy/convict vehicle?
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 77
Settings Tuesdays:
The dark underbelly of the Girl Scouts of America have been hinted at, and people don’t seem to be too concerned. But what people don’t know is that the secret society that runs the cookie operation, chooses the new badges, and chooses the troop leaders is the Alpha 10, a scout who wins in [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 76
character sketch Monday:
Alexandra is a strange girl. When she was born, so was her personal god - Mister Johnson. This was no guardian angel, but an actual god came into being. The God of Alexandra. She would hold no gods before him, and she would pray to, worship, and sacrifice to him. He had the [...]
Latest SG column is live!
I went more for a straight feature with the latest column, pushing music (mostly comedic) that you can find online.
Stories about the RIAA bullying music fans are so ubiquitous it’s nearly becoming white noise. The association has been trying to kill ants with a hammer; when the blow strikes true, it’s devastating, but even as [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 75
Anything Goes Sundays:
Imagine an alternate Playing For Keeps (released August 25! ) universe where there are no heroes, just people with really lame superpowers. As the most powerful people in town, they form factions/gangs. The city falls into a somewhat lame, yet terrifying, gang-driven world.
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Buy Brave Men Run, Support Small Press and Podiobook Authors (It’s a good book, too)
Today Matthew Wayne Selznick releases Brave Men Run on Amazon via my publisher, Swarm Press. We’re working on driving the book up the charts big time on Amazon (latest check it was #111 in Books), and Matt’s been busting his ass all day on Ustream reading original fiction by me, JC Hutchins, Matt F’n Wallace, [...]
13Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 74
First Sentence Saturdays:
The meeting of the Young Ladies’ Baking and World Domination Club came to order as usual, but because Miss Peabody was out sick, this time the meeting had to be chaperoned by Coach Wilkins.
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