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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 56

Character Sketches Mondays
Eric is a rancher. He is a down-to-earth man, preferring the wide open spaces of the range over the stuffy cities. He can’t stand holier-than-thou scientists, but it doesn’t change the fact that he is one. Or has the brains for it. And Eric isn’t a rancher of cattle, or horses, or dudes. [...]

16Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 55

From my buddy Ryn-
I recently read The World Without Us and found this passage from p. 270 really interesting. (Jon Lomberg is the person who designed and oversaw the information about humans that was on the Voyager spacecraft in the 70s.)
Around 5 billion years from now, give or take, the sun will expand into a [...]

15Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 54

First Sentence Saturdays
“Shaman, you need to take this baby’s soul back; you’ve given her the soul of an assassin,” my father said to the rheumy-eyed little man.
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 [...]

14Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 53

General Stuff Fridays
Why don’t we do allegory and satire anymore? I mean, Animal Farm was a classic allegory, and if I’m not mistaken, today’s political and social climate pretty much begs for allegory. Why aren’t people writing more of it? I don’t really have experience doing it (but we know how to get experience, right?) [...]

13Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 52

Scenes Thursdays
They called me the other day. You know. Them. They from “that’s what they say.” I had applied to join “some people”, but They said I’d be better suited to join them.
It’s hard work, being part of Them. We (They) meet in a large room with a black oak table and doughnuts are [...]

12Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 51

Macguffin Wednesdays
I love my iRiver. The problem I have with it is sometimes if it’s in a bag and the HOLD button isn’t on, it’ll start recording if I bump it. I’ve recorded hours of static silence and an occasional muffled conversation before. Runs down the batteries, fills up the memory, and essentially pisses me [...]

11Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 50

50 days. Wow. And I nearly missed this one, too.
Settings Tuesdays
Math is foreign to me. I think it’s this way for many liberal arts majors. But when it’s used well in ficttion, it amazes me. It’s hard to weave in math and a good plotline and make it interesting to a lot of people.
My accountant [...]

10Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 49

Character sketches Mondays:
Orville is 83. He is in good health, a bachelor, and well-off. He is bored at the end of his life, though, and decides to get a hobby. So he goes into serial killing. He’s good at it - but one person spots him. He’s not recognized, but the media begin to make [...]

9Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 48

Anything goes Sundays
I keep thinking that once the revolution comes and the dystopia is here, the world will be a lot more animalistic. Sure, there will be violence when someone cuts you off in traffic, but think about the other times you feel insane rage. When you can’t find your favorite pair of shoes. When [...]

8Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 47

First sentence Saturdays
Mama told me her totem was the slug, and I didn’t want to believe it - especially when she said that, me being her first daughter, it was destined to be my totem as well.
Art- Slug Totem by Ursula Vernon
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring an idea for you [...]

7Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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