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)

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Featured Submissions

July 7th: Kicking myself in the ass for picking the Book of Ecclesiastes to memorize. How the hell do you pronounce Qoheleth? —From Among the Hobos: The Road Diary of Guy Montag (sequel to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) Submitted by Sarah Tereniak, Pennsylvania

No reservation? Don't you know about me at all? —From Huckleberry's Bistrô (sequel to The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain) Submitted by Celina Ishikawa, Brazil

Timing really is everything. —From Romeo and Juliet: After the Tragedy (sequel to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare) Submitted by Elizabeth Schwebel Wind

Call me dead. —From Moby Ducked (Narrated by Captain Ahab) (sequel to Moby Dick by Herman Melville) Submitted by Alan Richman

The day began perfectly, just like the past three years—that was, until she saw the newspaper headline: “Queen’s Mum dies, Queen nowhere to be found.” —From Step Lightly in Glass Slippers (sequel to Cinderella by Charles Perrault) Submitted by Sabrina McGinty, Educator, Troy, NY

Tom opened the white envelope and stared at the row of zeros, his rheumy eyes adjusting to the bright light shining on the glossy paper, and he realized that he had nothing, nothing was left of the treasure, that old Judge Thatcher had invested the money with that sneaky-eyed fellow with the fancy apartment, the houses in Palm Beach and France, the thousand-dollar suite, and now it was gone, all gone, and there was nothing to be done but tell Huck, tell him that they were done for, and were going back, back again to live with Aunt Polly, and to once more paint that awful fence. —From Hannibal, Oh Hannibal: Life on the Mississippi (sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain) Submitted by Evan Charkes, New York