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  • Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #3

    Brave New Hamlet
    Should the Prince of Denmark do something about his annoying stepfather, or will Soma help?
    Stacy Korn-Luebke

    The Catch-22 in the Rye
    Yossarian’s bomber strays off course and wipes out the post-war Irish whiskey crop.
    Gary Presley

    How Green Was My Giant
    An epic saga of a big jolly kid in a Texas coal mine.
    Jack Shakely

    Rumpole’s Last Burnt Out Case
    Suffering from spiritual exhaustion, Horace Rumpole leaves his London law practice to travel up the Congo, where he ends up working in a leprosarium run by Catholic priests.  However, when one of the Fathers is accused of murder, Rumpole must call on his rusty courtroom skills to defend him.
    Mithras Somasundrum

    Portnoy’s Complaint About the Naked and the Dead
    Philip Roth’s daring expose of Mailer’s plagiarism of Henry Miller and Faulkner.
    Gary Presley

    The Sea Wolf Wears Prada
    Can Humphrey van Weyden learn the secrets to pleasing his boss and find his own fashion sense?
    Stacy Korn-Luebke

    The Notebook from the Underground
    Erstwhile teen lovers go into hiding for two days to pen a raging diatribe against the social-climbing Old South that broke them up. Nobody cares.
    Sue Z. Smith

    Moby Dick and Jane
    An albino Balaenoptera musculus kidnaps a young school girl and attempts to extort a cessation of whale-hunting in international waters.
    Gary Presley

    The Devil and David Copperfield
    A young man searches for a sense of family and a way to save his soul in Victorian England.
    Stacy Korn Luebke

    Dark Passages
    Humphrey Bogart discovers his inner self and immediately disguises it with plastic surgery.
    Sheldon

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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.