Poughkeepsie
Is NfP a challenge?
Some people think so. Jeff Hite contacted me and said he’s doing a story a day for 30 days based on the News From Poughkeepsie - today is the first day he’s doing this. Considering I have a bad habit of posting late, he’ll be a day behind me, but be sure to check it [...]
10Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 70
Settings Tuesdays:
The world of My Pretty Pony is one beset by war and strife. Their society started innocently enough, with the branding of the young ones with cute icons, but later those brands became akin to gang signs, and the ponies would group together based on nothing more than signs. Astronomical signs vs water signs [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 69
I should have come up with a better post for today, it being 69, dudes, but it’s late and i’m frustrated at audio. This time it’s totally my fault, not Audacity. So it’s a new frustration. Fresh.
Character Sketch Mondays
Percy is a man who wears turtlenecks with his business suits and always has his hair [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie Returns! - Day 68
Anything Goes Sundays:
Some of my favorite ideas have come from my inability to type. There’s the whole “superherpes” thing that came up time and again during the writing of Playing For Keeps, as “p” and “o” are right next to each other. I was chatting with someone about queries the other day and accidentally typed [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 67 - Fool Week
First Sentence Saturdays
“Peter, put down that penguin, you don’t know where it’s been!” his mother yelled.
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 66 - Fool Week
General Stuff Fridays
Jenna never liked the songs about fools being in love. A fool being in love was a delicate matter. Your cleverness falls when you’re in love. Your bias toward the object of your desire may force you to be kinder to them when a stinging barb is needed. And your general mentality to [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 65 - Fool Week
Scenes Thursdays
The shattered businessman sat at his desk, his head hung low. His fool stood in the doorway, not called upon, but entering unbidden as always.
The fool goes where other’s cannot. But at the end of the day, they are still fools.
“I recommend saying that you’re taking time to spend with your family,” Orson [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 64 - Fool Week
(one month till I turn 35. Just saying.)
Macguffin Wednesdays
Kathy, the janitor of Trump Tower who moonlighted as the fool, although no one knew it. She had taken her dice bag to work with her, and left it behind on one of the floors. Kathy’s dice bag was reknowned among the game-playing janitorial staff for being [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 63 - Fool Week
Settings Tuesdays:
Girdy Twinkleflow is the elected head of the NYC Fool’s Guild. Patty Finhowl is the head of the blue collar fools, while Larry NoLastName is head of the white collar fools. The NYC Fool’s Guild has been putting fools in businesses from Public Works to McDonald’s to Trump Tower for the past 5 years, [...]
The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 62 - Fool Week!
Characters sketch Mondays:
It’s time to have another special week. I just read Fool’s Errand by Sarah Zettel (which grew into Fool’s War, which I’m interested in reading) and I got so entranced with the idea of the fool in settings other than feudal, I wanted to do another week.
Rachel’s mother was a fool and [...]
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