All Posts Tagged With: "pie"

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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 32 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues!
General stuff Fridays:
Those who say that food is not love have apparently never eaten pie. Pie is warm. It crumbles in the right places, but always has a foundation that is deceptively strong. Inside it is soft, whether it’s meat or fruit or custard, and it is something that you just want to [...]

23May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 31 - Pie Week!

Travel slowing me down-
Pie week continues.
Scenes Thursdays:
Cherry pie is oft considered - inappropriately - to be the best pie filling to smear on your lover before licking it off in sex play. But the fruit pies tend to drip and then there’s the mess on the sheets. For me, nothing beats a good custard pie, [...]

22May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 30 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues!
Macguffin Wednesdays: (Been waiting for this one)
One thing Bobbi Jo could do was bake a pie. She was so good that she was considered the obvious winner of the county pie bake-off, and Deena thought about not even entering. But she walked in with a pie box, put her pie on the table, [...]

21May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 29 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues.
Settings Tuesdays:
Everybody hated rainy days in the city. The pie filling would fall in gloppy chunks, clogging gutters and ruining the outfit of anyone left out in it. You had to make sure all pets and livestock were inside during a storm, else they’d eat cherry filling and make themselves sick. And don’t [...]

20May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News from Poughkeepsie - Day 28 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues!
Character sketches Mondays
Eric was nothing special - his sister was the one who showed the pie baking talent passed on through their mother’s family. He was happy shoeing horses. But then in a freak accident involving a dull knife, a pint of strawberries and an elected official, his sister had a horrible accident [...]

19May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 27 - Pie Week!

My friend Joe said I should do a pie-centered week on NfP, and I’m all for pie. So this post starts PIE WEEK.
Anything goes Sundays:
I’m sure someone in economics can explain it if you need the background - and I’m not asking you to explain it to me - but I’ve never really understood why [...]

18May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued