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On scary fairy tales and once upon a time:
Today’s teaser is taken from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s collection of short stories, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales.
“The Miracle:”
There once lived a woman whose son hanged himself.
Which is to say, when she returned home from the night shift one [...]

Today’s Teaser Tuesday is taken from Nick Flynn’s essay “The Ticking is the Bomb,” which is included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009:
This black-and-white photograph in my hand is an image of my unborn daughter. This is what I’m told. It is actually a series of photographs, folded one upon the other, like a [...]

On teasers for Tuesday and the many places I be:

Since I’m attempting to get back in the blog of things, I figued today would not be a good day to forget two of my favorite weekly blog memes.  I speak of, of course, It’s Tuesday, Where Are You?, hosted by raidergirl3 and Teaser Tuesdays, hosted [...]

I was this close to not doing Teaser Tuesday.  I wanted to do it, I started to do it, but I had weightier things on my mind (see below).  Call it an existential blogging moment, if you will.  In addition, I’d already posted a review too, really, weren’t two posts two posts enough?
But well, I [...]

On Teaser Tuesdays and journeys to the underworld:
I haven’t participated in Teaser Tuesday in a while! And forget about It’s Tuesday…Where are you?  I’ve been doing a terrible job with my weekly memes.  But, I’m on the ball this week. Or, at least I’m trying to be.  This week’s Teaser Tuesday, hosted by MizB, comes from [...]

On a polygamous marriage, a murder mystery, and the nineteenth wife:

Last night, I was up much later than I should have been reading The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff.  In fact, as soon as I’m finished with this I’m probably going to work in a few more pages before work calls.  Enjoy.
Hosted by raidergirl3, It’s [...]

On a addictive stars and flags, and sugar babies:
Whoops!  Almost forgot today was Teaser Tuesday, hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.
The rules:

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to [...]