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

If you never eat alone, you can become a great networker; but if you never eat at all, you'll get thinner. —From Never Eat: Keith Ferrazi's Diet Book (sequel to Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazi) Submitted by Fern Reiss, AssociationofWriters.com

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune and a wife, should have paid his lawyer to draft a prenup before he married. —From Proud, Prejudiced, and Single Again (sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) Submitted by Rachel Sullivan

One moment Khan Noonien Singh stood aboard the USS Enterprise plotting the takeover of the entire starship fleet, the next he found himself beamed through a wormhole to the front porch of of a farmhouse in Great Depression-era Oklahoma, where he was quickly beaten with a broom by Ma Joad. —From The Grapes of Wrath of Khan (sequel to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck) Submitted by Michael Regan

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the new parents of a colicky baby must be in want of some sleep. —From Pride, Prejudice, and Parenthood (sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) Submitted by Jyotsna Sreenivasan

Since the beginning of time, we have looked different and fought wars over our differences until now, finally, we are all mixed and we are all one. —From We Are All One (sequel to Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama) Submitted by Dick Hrebik, Retired Marine, Legal Administrator And Professor, Lecanto, FL

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. —From The Purpose of Practice (sequel to Speedwealth by T. Harv Eker) Submitted by Riantsoa Rasolonjatovo, Madagascar