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Unusual tropes for modern mystery stories including organic, locally-sourced cyanide, exploding e-cigarette being run over by a self-driving car.
Character(s):
Town Mouse; Hipster Mouse; Country Mouse; Super-Rich Mouse
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Town Mouse attempts to patronize Country Mouse only to discover Country Mouse made a fortune from marketing his lifestyle and is now too rich to bother with Town Mouse.
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Exploring other versions of 'Jaws' where the shark is larger, in space, in the boat, friends with the humans or absent in an existential variant on the story.
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A pie chart divides a memoir up into portions indicating which portions of the book were true, which were distorted and which were "libellous score-settling."
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Ah! How good it feels to pass along this ancient pathway…
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Through the ages men imagine how their ancestors must have enjoyed a worn path - except for the oldest of the ancestors who simply hated walking in the rain.
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Directions on how to covertly indicate to a publisher you have written a spy novel, then await a clandestine meeting with them which the Swiss Embassy will arrange.
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A chart explains how the costs of a volume of poetry are broken down, with the poet's royalty being a very small wedge, itself subdivided to include the poet's many expenses.
Poetry Anthologies for People Who Don't Like Poems
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humorous
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Poetry collections for people who don't like poetry include volumes which look nice on shelves, short volumes which won't take long to read, or gift books which can simply be given away.
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Three book covers purport to reveal true history including the Roman Empire in outer space, dinosaurs in World War 2 and stockbrokers in the Ice Age.
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An art gallery plans an expansion to accommodate a billionaire suite, truffle depository, champagne vat, oyster tank, yacht portal and other extravagent luxuries.
Errors Commonly Made by Inexperienced Murder-Mystery Novelists
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Various errors by murder mystery authors, such as having only one suspect, forgetting to have a murder, using too many butlers and having the detective give up.
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Stonehenge is the featured attraction in one direction with various add-on amenities in the other direction; people prefer all the other amenities.
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Various mistakes guests make during radio interviews such avoiding eye contact, sitting on the interviewer's lap and dressing up as an insect.
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In forgotten chapters from Jane Austen's Emma the protagonist encounters a witch, combat Napoleon, is trained as a warrior and goes on an adventure in the wild west.
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The Sensible Caterpillar builds a wall to keep out strangers while the Stupid Beetle welcomes the strangers. The Stupid Beetle has fun while the Sensible Caterpillar lives alone behind the wall.
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The characters in a new play: protagonist, antagonist, capitalist, activist, dentist, duellist, mixologist, flautist, futurist and taxidermist.
First Line:
Our journey will be long and perilous and not all will survive…
Synopsis:
A fantasy adventurer cautions his comrades that not all of them will survive the adventure - and some of them will be left out of the adaptation.