Review Group discussion

There are some funny examples going around of making new, and totally different, titles by removing a single letter from the original book title (#bookswithalettermissing, I believe, is one source).

For example, 'The Princess Bride' becomes 'The Princess Brie' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' becomes a cookbook with 'A Heartbreaking Wok of Staggering Genius'.

So, my question is: can you change the meaning of one of your own titles by removing a single letter and make it mean something different?

I'll start: from my own works,
'Crypt of Souls' becomes either 'Crypt of Soul' (the leftovers from a 1970s music fad) or 'Cryp of Souls' (a former gang member leads a zombie squad).

How about yours?

How about Never Too Late becomes Never Too Lat?
(LAT is apparently an internet slang acronym - living apart together)

Actually, there are a few possiblities there:
Ever Too Late
Never to Late
Never too Ate

I just realized another one would work:
'Cornerstone: Raising Rook' becomes
'Cornerstone: Raising Roo', a retrospective by Winnie-the-Pooh's Kanga...

It's not removing a letter, but I can put a space in Fraudulent to make Frau Dulent, which makes it about a German woman.

Angelic Hellfire could become Angelic Hell Fir, a very nasty tree.

I,Tomorrow? and Other Stories could becomes I, Tomorrow? and Other Tories, giving it a political theme.

K.A. wrote: "I just realized another one would work:
'Cornerstone: Raising Rook' becomes
'Cornerstone: Raising Roo', a retrospective by Winnie-the-Pooh's Kanga..."

Haha! like that one :)

Ah, good ol' Frau Dulent! What an awesome character name!

Stop it, Kathy, you'll have me writing another short story in my head and there's too much going on in it already.
(you're right, though - awesome! Sort of Mrs Danvers character I reckon)

Can we play a double game? Remove one or change one? Then we could have Wind in the Pillows.

I was thinking we could also add one...for example, 'late' could become 'latte'...'Never too Latte'...

So it's an add one/change one/subtract one thing - but only ONE!

'Wind in the Pillows' sounds like something my dog does when she's sleeping on my bed...

Thus 'Stolen' would become 'Stollen', a fantasy about good bread...

Here's another dog one, then - Patch 22

Lord of the Lies
Ford of the Flies

"Saving Mouse" - A story about a dominant man that rescues an abused young woman.

Becomes by loosing a letter - "Saving Muse" - A story about trying to get the urge to write back.

Or by changing a letter - "Saving Moose" - The story of how veronica rescued Moose in the Archie comics.

Or by adding a letter - "Salving Mouse" - A story about a vet at a rodent breading farm.

This is so sad but funny.

Or by adding a letter: shaving a mouse...

Harry Potter ---> Hairy Potter, a boy with a problem as he grows too much hair. Harry Otter, the story of a brave otter who defeated Yo-Now-Who. Hairy Potters, a family of hairy potters.

From my own works:

She ---> He: A Horror Novel
As Trees Turned Away ---> A Tree Turned Away
My Abigail ----> Y Abigail?
My Other Friends & Collected Scary Stories ---> My Otter Friends
Enden ----> End'n

Just like this post. Ending.