All Posts Tagged With: "first sentence saturdays"

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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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19Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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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12Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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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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28Jun2008 | 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.
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21Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | 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.
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14Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | 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
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7Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 40

Boy, that Noah worked his butt off in 40 days of rain. And Jesus wandered around for 40 days being tempted and stuff. Christians fast for 40 days during Lent. Moses was on the mountain for 40 days. 40 sure is an important number for Christians, and indeed, cycles of 40 days are important to [...]

31May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 33 - Pie week!

Pie week concludes! Will be doing a Balticon report shortly. If you want a sneak peek, the con is awesome.
First sentence Saturdays:
Pie is not the best hangover cure, but whenever someone offers you a choice between pie and alka seltzer, you choose pie - even if you know you’ll regret it later, which I [...]

24May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 26

First sentence Saturdays:
Look, I am sorry I wasn’t there to save the world the second time, but I had to help Sue get ready for the garage sale.
Inspired by my friend Rick Jones and the fact that I’m here blogging instead of helping Jim get ready for a neighborhood garage sale.
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17May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued