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marycatelliThis week's prompt is:
abusive 🤕
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
abusive 🤕
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
inventing saints
Saturday, August 16th, 2025 11:37 pmmarycatelliI exclude saints, I invent saints, I include saints. . . and I give existing ones new patronages, too.
High fantasy Christian milieux have me having an interesting time with saints. Obviously I don't include Renaissance or later if the milieu is medieval-ish, and I tend to avoid ones within the era most closely equivalent.
But the other world would, no doubt, have other saints.
I think I should avoid putting the same imaginary saint into two different world, to avoid their being confused. Such is the logic of world-building.
High fantasy Christian milieux have me having an interesting time with saints. Obviously I don't include Renaissance or later if the milieu is medieval-ish, and I tend to avoid ones within the era most closely equivalent.
But the other world would, no doubt, have other saints.
I think I should avoid putting the same imaginary saint into two different world, to avoid their being confused. Such is the logic of world-building.
Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21
Saturday, August 16th, 2025 07:57 pmmarycatelliAgatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21: An Entertainment in Londinium by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio
Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Ida knows from rugged experience that nothing gets paved for good.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 11:03 pm
The Proving Trail
Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 11:18 pmmarycatelliThe Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour
The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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cut to the snake
Monday, August 11th, 2025 12:16 ammarycatelliI think I may have to muck about with how many heads the snakes have. One by one is too slow. The snakes are menaces, not things to tick off as they advance
Perhaps only odd numbers of heads?
Perhaps only odd numbers of heads?
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Monday, August 11th, 2025 12:13 ammarycatelliSanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders
Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.
Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.
Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.
Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.
To Tame a Land
Sunday, August 10th, 2025 05:04 pmmarycatelliTo Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour
You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.
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You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.
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vignette
Sunday, August 10th, 2025 10:54 ammarycatelliThis week's prompt is:
range 🐦
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
range 🐦
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.