Tag: crime

KokkieH Reviews Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheque, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons.

Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell’s undertow.

Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she’ll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives, including her own. – Book description on cover

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Song Title Challenge #53: Luscious Lakes ~ The Dragon Chef’s Belly by Christophe Heral and Billy Martin

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Luscious Lakes ~ The Dragon Chef’s Belly by Christophe Heral and Billy Martin and the genre is Crime/Mystery. This song title is going to test my creativity (and possibly my cheatativity as well) to the limit, and could only have been suggested by the recently Freshly-Pressed bumblepuppies.

Luscious Lakes ~ The Dragon Chef’s Belly

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Song Title Challenge #42: There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet. – Panic! At the Disco

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

The wife seems to have taken a page from bumblepuppies’s book by looking up the strangest song title she could find online. Her suggestion? There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet. by Panic! At the Disco (frankly, I think the band’s name would make a much more interesting story). The genre is Crime/Mystery.

There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet.

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Song Title Challenge #40: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict – Pink Floyd

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict by Pink Floyd and the genre is Crime/Mystery. It was suggested by bumblepuppies (whose comments regarding my wife being pregnant should NEVER be taken seriously 😉 )

I did this one a bit differently, seeing as I’m already familiar with the song: A friend of mine wrote a piece on this song on the blog where this challenge got it’s humble beginnings. Please go give hers a read as well when you’re done here.

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

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Song Title Challenge #37: Eye of Shiva – Therion

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Eye of Shiva by Therion and the genre is Crime/Mystery. It was suggested by bumblepuppies.