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”
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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… 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”
Literary Mashing, or Zombies Don’t Dance: guest post on Alvah’s Books
Rebeca Schiller used to call her site something like, “I’m at the beach,” and I got pulled in by the beautiful photograph of a white sand beach somewhere I am not. Later she changed it to Alvah’s Books after the “Hollywood Ten” screenwriter Alvah Bessie, who stood up, alongside Humphrey… Read more“Literary Mashing, or Zombies Don’t Dance: guest post on Alvah’s Books”
Telling the truth
I’m pleased to post this guest essay by the talented Gary Presley, author of Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio: I am very much a believer in the idea that writing both creates and destroys, a whimsically ironic perception I contrived long ago after I read “We Are Norsemen,” a… Read more“Telling the truth”