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An Early Childhood Chapter 17 Part 3

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A SUBPLOT WITH A PLOT, OR VICE VERSA (P ART 3 ) C ontinued from Chapter 17 Part 2 . Act I – Scene IV THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE INTERROGATION ROOM – 1987 – AFTERNOON GENE, ALEX AND FLANAGAN ARE LEAVING THE ROOM. THEY STEP INTO THE CORRIDOR. FLANAGAN IS BEING LED AWAY. FLANAGAN I’ve already explained…I was only sure where I was going when Billy Boy Cullen indicated to me that the portal was open and gave me a leather pilot’s cap and goggles! How many times do I have to tell you? SHARON COMES WALKING INTO THE CORRIDOR. SHE LOOKS AT FLANAGAN AND SMILES, SIGHING AT HIM LUSTFULLY, THEN LOOKS AT DRAKE SHARON Ma’am! DRAKE Yes, Sharon? SHARON When we was in the station room…you said… DRAKE Yes, Sharon? SHARON Ma’am…you was talking about the case we’re working on. DRAKE Yes, that’s right. SHARON But ma’am…then this man arrived by a cake. DRAKE Yes, Sharon? SHARON Well, he ain’t a character is what I mean. Is he? In our script? DRAKE My God, Sharon…my God you’re right. (LOOK

Fabulous Facts from the World of Entertainment

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S ee another entertainment fact here ! Did you know? In his original Star Wars film, George Lucas was going to name the planet “Alderaan” not “Alderaan”, but in fact “Alderman”, after his great-great-great-grandfather, Chelmsford Lucas, who was the First Alderman of Nantucket. However, Mark Hamill, who played central character Luke Skywalker, struggled with the pronunciation of the word “Alderman” early on in the film’s shoot and subsequent references to the word ended up on the cutting room floor. The problem was so pronounced that Lucas decided that the planet would have to be destroyed.   A purpose-built Death Star was introduced into the script in order to obliterate the planet, sending the movie sky-rocketing over budget and postponing the shoot by four months. The delay led Lucas to the conclusion that any sequel containing a similar Death Star could only be financially viable if the massive weapon were only half built. Luckily, the success of Star Wars at the box office cover

Fabulous Facts from the World of Entertainment

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Did you know? There was a final, unaired episode of television series Murder, She Wrote , starring Angela Lansbury as crime-solving novelist Jessica Fletcher . It featured a storyline in which Jessica was exposed as a serial killer who had murdered some 314 people over the previous ten seasons, framing hundreds of innocent parties in the process.   Click here for more fascinati ng facts !

Grey hair solutions

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Numerous celebs have spent years trying to achieve a certain look. But if you're looking for a solution to grey hair, then look no further than some of the amazing image changes that ALL of the celebs have gone through! Not just George Clooney. The word on the grapevine is that Kelly Osborne was tired of being overweight - so she took the heat off herself by dyeing her hair. Now people aren't saying she's fat - they're saying she's got grey hair! When asked about it all, mom Sharon Osborne said: "She did lose a lot of fucking weight. What are you fucking talking about, you shithead? You miserable fucker! Get away from me! You fucker!" From Katy Perry all the way down to Kelly Osbourne - and maybe not even Katy Perry - all of the celebs are now dyeing their hair grey! So if you want a solution to grey your hair too - take a tip from the stars! LITTLE MIX That's one star of Little Mix who mixed up a grey hair solution - AND CAME OUT LOOKING GREAT! Katy P

An Early Childhood Chapter 17 Part 2

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A SUBPLOT WITH A PLOT, OR VICE VERSA (P ART 2 ) C ontinued from Chapter 17 Part 1 .     Act I – Scene II INT. LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE STATION, 1987 – AFTERNOON GENE HUNT, ALEX DRAKE, RAY CARLING, CHRIS SKELTON, SHARON GRANGER AND EIGHT OTHER DETECTIVES ARE GATHERED AROUND LOOKING AGOG AT PADDY FLANAGAN AS HE STANDS UP. HE IS WEARING FRILLY UNDERWEAR AND A PAIR OF SUSPENDERS AND IS COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE IN A THIN FILM OF LIQUID. ALL OF THE OTHER OFFICERS ARE ALSO SPLASHED IN THE LIQUID ALEX What is this vile liquid? SHAZZ I’m not sure, ma’am. ALEX Eurrggh! FLANAGAN Where am I, exactly? CHRIS Does this mean that we’re covered in his…? SHAZZ Whose? FLANAGAN I…I…I’m a bit discombobulatered altogether. CHRIS Wait a second – I have a question here. Are we all covered…in…? FLANAGAN Put me back in the cake! I want to go back – back to the Twenties! SHAZZ From his silly banter, this man covered in his own silky muck seems to be a time traveller, ma’am. It appears tha

An Early Childhood Chapter 17 Part 1

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A SUBPLOT WITH A PLOT, OR VICE VERSA (P ART 1 ) Continued from Chapter 16 Part 2 .             Meanwhile, back in Fantasy Land…             Black Typo turned to me.             “So…you’ve had your trailer.”             “Yes,” I said. “Now take me to Floudh Rak the evil weatherlock.”             “The evil weatherlock? Are you sure?”             I touched the comb in my pocket, the gold comb of the banshee found at the scene of a double murder.             “Yes,” I said.             “You need to go to the realm beyond this,” the fox explained.             “Back to the world of the trailer?”             The fox shook his head.             “Deeper than that,” he said. “You need to follow different conventions, and this place represents a purgatorial environment with which you are not familiar now. But you will understand that environment while you are there, much like you understand things in dreams that on waking make no sense.”             “I don’t getchya

Very Inspiring Blogger Award

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Apparently, fantasy scribe L.T. Lindberg  has invited me to Norway, where the Nobel Committee are going to present me with my award for the Artist of the Millennium . But I might've got some of my facts wrong. L.T.'s blog is replete with flash fiction, and shout-outs about various contests, and word count tallies. Her posts about craft dedication are an inspiration in themselves. Now, I'm not really into fantasy. When I say that, what I actually mean is that I can dish it out, but I usually can't take it, to be honest with you. But some of my more successful stories in competition have had fantastical elements, or could be classed as magic realism, if I was to be so pejorative about the genre. How and ever, inter alia and other fancy Latin I don't really understand, what little I've read of L.T.'s work grounds itself in an emotional depth that always impresses and surprises me. Inter alia. The Very Inspiring Blogger Awards have some rules associated with the