BOOK: The Sequel
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Ever wonder what happens to Harry Potter after twenty years of marriage and a steady government gig?
Or what Karl Marx would say about today’s financial crisis?
If the Bible had a sequel, what would its first sentence be?
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Some inspiration to get you started:
See, I was right. —From Das Kapital 2 (sequel to Das Kapital by Karl Marx)
HappyMeals are all alike; each unhappy meal is unhappy in its own way. —From Anna McKarenina (sequel to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)
Bob Marley was dead, to begin with. —From Kwanzaa Tunes (sequel to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
All animals are equal, except those with swine flu. —From Mexican Animal Farm (sequel to Animal Farm by George Orwell)
Featured Submissions
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I had either slept with or dreamt of sleeping with at least twenty of them. —From Fear of Intimacy (sequel to Fear of Flying by Erica Jong) Submitted by Sherry Chancellor, Attorney, Pensacola, Fl
With the great wide spaces of the impenetrable beyond pressing down on me with the weight of all the souls that ever were and ever will be I came to know the truth, even as I had just kicked off my boots, red with road-dust and aching for their final rest: I had only gone and left my goddam hat in San Francisco. —From On the Road Again (sequel to On the Road by Jack Kerouac) Submitted by David Barnett
At first they weren't even allowed to watch, and they would come undercover—but once they began to fight ... the women changed everything. —From Fight Club 2 (sequel to Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk) Submitted by Anonymous
Now when I came out I told you it was just about Ghibellines Then everybody had to open their mouth for the motherfucker opinion Well this how we gonna do dis: Fuck Corso Donati Fuck the Black Guelfs, Donatis family and Pope Boniface VIII too! —From Hit 'em Up: Inferno Remix, by Tupac Shakur (sequel to Inferno by Dante Alighieri) Submitted by Jeffrey Squires, Pittsburgh
By outward appearances she seemed the picture of contented loveliness as she methodically moved her charcoal pencil across the paper, rendering yet another praiseworthy and extremely mediocre caricature of her unsuspecting subject; while inwardly her mind was diligently scheming and mapping out a precision plan for severing the “perfect” bond between them. —From Diminishing Bliss & Something Amiss (sequel to Emma by Jane Austen) Submitted by Diana Humphrey
"What, you only got me one stinkin' pearl?" —From The "Generation Me" Pearl (sequel to The Pearl by John Steinbeck) Submitted by Marilyn Peake, Author