The Long Farewell, My Lovely Philip Marlowe gets hopelessly confused and rescues a psychotic young woman with a happy triggerfinger from the law, while Moose Malone deals rough justice all over Los Angeles before taking off for Mexico. Nick Now We Are Six Degrees of Separation Christopher Robin grows up… Read more“Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #5”
Category: Humor
The art of making funny funny.
Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #4
Long Day’s Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne’s science fiction classic of a squabbling family fighting off prehistoric sea serpents and each other. Jack Shakely Sea is for Cortez Kinsey Millhone follows Doc Rickets to Mexico, where she rescues him from the love and affection of a… Read more“Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #4”
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… Read more“Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #3”
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… Read more“Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #2”
Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #1
I can’t stop thinking up those litticisms. –my husband Due to the staggering quality and variety of the submissions received for the Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, we co-hosts have thrown caution (and judging) to the winds and will post all of the submissions, ten at a time in no particular order,… Read more“Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #1”
Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles
I am very happy to post this guest essay by the highly successful writer Laverne Daley, thirty-year veteran of corporate copywriting and freelance journalism: The notion of grammar and humor first struck me when I was writing an earlier post on my site (Precision in Writing – Is That Word… Read more“Grammar, humor, and dangling your participles”