I promised a Freebie

for the Muse Fusion, but I'm tired today and can't make up my mind.[Poll #1564029]If you need more information about the story and the poem, there's a description about two posts upstream.

In other news, My Angel needed the car today, so I drove home at lunchtime, and just as I got within sight of the house, the sun came out.  Gosh, spring is pretty when the sun comes out suddenly, even when the grass needs mowing!

And if you're in or near Orlando, my brother's getting set to give drumming lessons.

I promised a Freebie

for the Muse Fusion, but I'm tired today and can't make up my mind.[Poll #1564029]If you need more information about the story and the poem, there's a description about two posts upstream.

In other news, My Angel needed the car today, so I drove home at lunchtime, and just as I got within sight of the house, the sun came out.  Gosh, spring is pretty when the sun comes out suddenly, even when the grass needs mowing!

And if you're in or near Orlando, my brother's getting set to give drumming lessons.

Cool Linger Trailer

You should watch this!

Cool Linger Trailer

You should watch this!

Flash Fiction: Monster Teeth and Art Glass

The stretch of sand between The Dancing Serpent and the Jiggling Jellyfish was a great place to sell Neteilyu’s wares. Her deathfin-hide tent was temporary; the tourists loved the feeling of visiting a rustic, uncivilized life. It was all illusion, of course. Her licenses were all in order, and her house, moored as it was on land-supports most of the year, was ship-shape in the event of a storm.

But for the tourists, she kept her long hair braided with shells, and wore dreamskate-leather clothes, cunningly cut to allow the ring-leech scars (which turned paper-thin and quite see-through in the tanning process) to show skin only where she wanted to show skin. She looked quite the barbarian artist—but the image of barbarian artist allowed her to charge twice what she had when she wore respectable clothes.

She was setting up her newest lamp, the base a fanciful construction of dreamskate tails, miscellaneous shells, driftwood, and a leaping deathfin carved of green dragonwood, when Dulilm walked up.( "So... )


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*I'm happy to hear suggestions for cool Scary Sea Monster names, both to replace this generic reference here and to fill in the monster menu at the Dancing Sea Serpent.

**Remember, this is a rough draft!  The canon board will have to discuss it before it goes up in final form on tornworld.net.  For instance, the monsters described as "deathfins" in An Irresistible Attraction are now called "dreamskates" instead, which is reflected in the terminology used in this story, even though the final version of that other story isn't yet up on Torn World.

Please let me know what you think!

Flash Fiction: Monster Teeth and Art Glass

The stretch of sand between The Dancing Serpent and the Jiggling Jellyfish was a great place to sell Neteilyu’s wares. Her deathfin-hide tent was temporary; the tourists loved the feeling of visiting a rustic, uncivilized life. It was all illusion, of course. Her licenses were all in order, and her house, moored as it was on land-supports most of the year, was ship-shape in the event of a storm.

But for the tourists, she kept her long hair braided with shells, and wore dreamskate-leather clothes, cunningly cut to allow the ring-leech scars (which turned paper-thin and quite see-through in the tanning process) to show skin only where she wanted to show skin. She looked quite the barbarian artist—but the image of barbarian artist allowed her to charge twice what she had when she wore respectable clothes.

She was setting up her newest lamp, the base a fanciful construction of dreamskate tails, miscellaneous shells, driftwood, and a leaping deathfin carved of green dragonwood, when Dulilm walked up.( "So... )


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*I'm happy to hear suggestions for cool Scary Sea Monster names, both to replace this generic reference here and to fill in the monster menu at the Dancing Sea Serpent.

**Remember, this is a rough draft!  The canon board will have to discuss it before it goes up in final form on tornworld.net.  For instance, the monsters described as "deathfins" in An Irresistible Attraction are now called "dreamskates" instead, which is reflected in the terminology used in this story, even though the final version of that other story isn't yet up on Torn World.

Please let me know what you think!