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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 [...]

26Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

25Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 63 - Fool Week

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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, [...]

24Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

24Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 61

Anything goes Sundays:
Jenny is a closeted geek. She works in a PR firm, has perfectly styled hair, and works out in a gym every other day. Everyone thinks she’s completely normal, except that she considers Walter Mitty a saint in her world. She works out with the assurance that some day she will be called [...]

22Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 60

First sentence Saturdays:
The memories were so clear sometimes - like the time her boyfriend from college would get a gleam in his eye when he would talk about the “high pro-glow” that cannibals supposedly got.
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring an idea for you to take and do with what you [...]

21Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 59

Patrick is an old man who lives in a brand new house.  He made sure the house was built on sterile land - actually had a dark shaman sow it with salt before he built. He wanted no chance of anything living, or anything that had ever lived, to rise from there.
The house was built [...]

20Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 58

(I know i’m sometimes late on these. Feeling sluggish lately. Sorry.)
Scenes Thursdays
Gladys saw the guest struggle into the hotel and weighed her options. The woman was small, about 115 pounds and five feet tall. She had a fine Chinese face, but a set to her jaw that implied that she was quite used to people [...]

19Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 57

Macguffin Wednesdays
Campbells decided to discontinue its line of Bean With Bacon, which upset neighbors Clarabelle Smith and Angela Peterson, who would meet for a bowl of soup on Wednesdays to talk about their grandchildren. They each ordered a case of soup from the company, and then the women started to notice their stash was depleting [...]

18Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 57

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I like abandoned buildings, urban decay, as much as the next person. The potential for fiction, what happened here long ago, etc, is excellent. However, what about shiny new buildings full of people? Why do we never assume they have personality, or hauntings, or quirks? (Indian burial ground doesn’t count, either. I want something [...]

17Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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