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The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 85

General Stuff Fridays
Wanda was always missing the good stuff. If anything spontaneous happened she missed it. Her friends were approached by security and invited backstage at the last Hottest Toys concert – while she was in the bathroom. She was always the 108th caller to any contest MIX 107 held. She always showed up at [...]

1Aug2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 84

Scenes Thursdays
Guan-yin came home from Black Belt World in tears. She had been training for three months – enough time to get a black belt, according to the sensei that her father paid $120 a month to. A tall blond white man, Sensei George kept assuming Guan-yin was Japanese, kept asking her how “her people” [...]

1Aug2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 83

macguffin wednesdays:
My father was not much of an adventurer. He was a banker. He underwrote loans. He combed his hair over his bald spot. He watched the Yankees. I became a paleontologist just so I could get outside and study something; the thought of an office job gave me the screaming willies. So when I [...]

30Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 82

JR Blackwell is an inspiration again. Thanks, JR.
Settings Tuesdays
True sorrow comes from knowing joy, and vice versa. There is a prison that has more mental punishment than physical. You are brought to the prison and kept in a cell. After a certain number of weeks, you get a “day off.” During the day off, you [...]

29Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued
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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.
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring an idea for you to take and do with what you will. Read more about it here. This post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. [...]

19Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

18Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

17Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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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?
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily [...]

16Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

15Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

14Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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