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Clown.

By Em | Published: October 26, 2010
With so many Halloween-themed badges lately, I bet you were all wondering when I was going to get around to doing another Destroy All Genres! badge. Because when you think “scary,” you naturally think of the burgeoning clown fiction genre. It was the latest buzz at this year’s foreign book fairs: clowns are the new vampires. If [...]
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High fantasy (continued).

By Em | Published: September 9, 2010
The “High Fantasy” Merit Badge: An Epic Trilogy in Two Parts (Part 1 is here.) Book Two Author’s note: We’re skipping this part of the story. Why? It started with me losing a riddle contest to Eric, thereby becoming obligated to accompany him on his quest. The whole thing was kind of embarrassing, and I don’t know why I even agreed [...]
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High fantasy.

By Em | Published: September 8, 2010
The “High Fantasy” Merit Badge: An Epic Trilogy in Two Parts Book One To be honest, I was getting pretty tired of spending so much time doing research for these genre badges. Sustaining the level of mental energy required to remember all these details (zombies = dead, dystopias = bad, popsicles = not a literary genre, etc.) is [...]
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Dystopia.

By Em | Published: August 26, 2010
Bad news, guys. The future is going to be terrible. See, I decided to act all responsible and look up the subject for today’s badge instead of faking my way through. (Fine, the research die made me. The traitor.) It turns out there are about a jillion things that will probably go wrong and ruin our lives in [...]
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Historical fiction.

By Em | Published: August 20, 2010
There I was, all excited to be working on the “historical fiction” merit badge. “Historical fiction sounds awesome,” I thought. “There are so many stories you could tell. Marie Curie starts a punk band! A day at the dinosaur rodeo! Abraham Lincoln goes skateboarding!” Then, completely unprovoked, the facts came up and kicked me in the face. It [...]
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Zombie.

By Em | Published: August 11, 2010
So, zombies. These reanimated corpses are well-known for craving human flesh. Despite their typically shambling gait, zombies are very good dancers. The little plastic things on the ends of shoelaces were invented by a team of zombies. I know what you’re thinking, and yes, it’s possible that all of my research for this post consisted of [...]
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Vampire.

By Em | Published: August 4, 2010
Finally a merit badge for stalking the night, feasting on your victim’s— Oh, wait, no. The legal department has informed me that is most assuredly not what this badge is for. So, starting over… Vampires. They’re pretty cool, what with the fangs and the blood-drinking and the coffin-sleeping and the goat-devouring and all. Oh, wait, no. The legal [...]
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