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  • Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #2

    The Maltese Windup Bird Chronicle
    When his cat goes missing, Sam suspects the Falcon. But before initiating pursuit, he stops by his neighbor’s house to have psychic sex. Cold comfort indeed!
    Sue Z. Smith

    Pride and Premeditation in Cold Blood
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who pays in cash, must be in possession of a safe.
    Stacy Korn-Luebke

    Travels With My Plant
    The life of staid bank manager Henry Pulling changes forever on being visited by his eccentric aunt Augusta.  Who is a triffid.
    Mithran Somasundrum

    One Flew Over the Atlas Shrugged
    Randle P. McMurphy reads Rand to his detriment.
    Gary Presley

    Lust for Life of Pi
    A Pondicherry zookeeper cuts off his ear and takes up painting tigers on velvet.
    Jack Shakely

    Generation X-Files
    A bunch of depressed teenagers get motivated to find out why the government is hiding information about extraterrestrials. Or whatever.
    Agatha Monteleon

    Little, Big House on the Prairie
    Laura and Mary are at first perplexed and then intrigued by proof of fairies in their garden. . .until the fairies turn freaky, kidnap them, and force them to live in an abandoned apartment building in New York City.
    Matthew Blue

    Interview with the Vampire Slayer
    Buffy’s day just got brighter.
    Bumbleboo

    Pride and Extreme Prejudice
    Elizabeth Bennett becomes an assassin and kicks ass on that Heathcliff guy.
    Sheldon

    On the Road Less Traveled
    Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy take the wrong turn and get lost in the woods. When they run out of bennies, they eat whatever strange-looking mushrooms they can find and sit up all night babbling unintelligibly to each other, later remembering those random babblings as incredible speeches of mind-altering profundity.
    Nick

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.