It's Friday! And that means it's time to unleash the 1st Ever Bookmash Weekend Challenge.

Your challenge: Take the deathless piece of prose below and mash it into the form of another novel. Make it sound like a specific passage from Charles Dickens, or Orson Scott Card, or Ernest Hemingway, or...well, anyone but the actual author. (Make sure to ( Read more... )

PROFESSOR VAN HELSING, Mrs. Harker, and the rest of these adventurers having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Count Dracula, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the location of the remains, and that only because there is still ash not yet scattered, I take up my pen in the year of grace 18__ and go back to the ( Read more... )

In sheets, in hammers on the corrugated roof of the clinic building, in a roar through the metal gutters, in a torrent on the ground, the tropical rain fell-- fell on Roberta Carter, the Chicago-born, the visiting physician. Fog cloaked her view from the clinic when she looked out, when she sighed, when she acknowledged the loss of her expectations ( Read more... )

The night was filled with a rich odor of change, and when the airy scented wind howled amidst the trees of the forest, there came to the tall Shade the surprising message that they were here, or the more insidious idea that it was a trap ( Read more... )

I don't know about people without I have heard this advice in my younger and more vulnerable years; but that ain't no certainty. That advice was given by my father, and he told the truth, mainly. I've been turning it over in my mind ever since, but mainly he told the truth ( Read more... )

The War Grows in BrooklynWatched was a word you could put to this world. Especially as men busied themselves about their various concerns. Scrutinized was a better word. But it did not apply to the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Infinite complacency was lovely and serene had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit ( Read more... )

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