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Hey, LJI: Meet Pickles and Henry.


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OK, so maybe my workaday stories aren't filled with the raw life-or-death excitement of, say, one of basric's yarns. But that's not to say that my day job doesn't entail its own occasional thrills. For instance, sometimes my gig takes me sidelong into amateur-hour detective work... primarily in situations that involve student plagiarism.

( wherein nothing much explodes, except perhaps student transcripts )

"...[They say] scared money don't make none..."
- Every hip-hop artist ever

( the more I drink, the more focused my entries become! )

With a five-entry assignment, I think I can afford room for a bit of LJI meta.

For Week 29, I did something a little special: came up with a medium-sized if admittedly ridiculous plotline that would incorporate all four of the single-word prompts, and wrote a separate "standalone" work of fiction for each word that told a self-contained story. You ( Read more... )

please read this BEFORE you read ANYTHING else I've just posted.

EDIT: also, Gary has placed me in Tribe "Disappear." Fine; he had to put me somewhere, but read my note on that below before going straight for the "disappear" entry."

This past weekend, I announced here that-- following an update on the actual Week 28 community vote provided by Gary-- ( Read more... )

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