Will Shetterly's Blog, page 166
November 14, 2012
"What Used to Be Good Still Is" by Emma Bull
First published in Firebirds Rising, ed. Sharyn November, Firebird 2006. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
What Used to Be Good Still Is
Emma Bull
Porphyry is a volcanic rock. Maybe that's why it happened. Maybe it was because the hill that became a pit was named Guadalupe, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, who appeared in a vision to a Mexican peasant a long time ago. Maybe it's beca...
What Used to Be Good Still Is
Emma Bull
Porphyry is a volcanic rock. Maybe that's why it happened. Maybe it was because the hill that became a pit was named Guadalupe, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, who appeared in a vision to a Mexican peasant a long time ago. Maybe it's beca...
November 12, 2012
"Brian and the Aliens" by Will Shetterly
First published in Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens (Scholastic, 1994). Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
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Brian and the Aliens
by Will Shetterly
A boy and his dog were walking in the woods when they saw a space ship land. Two space aliens came out of it. One alien was blue, and one was green, and they were both covered with scales, large red eyes, and long tent...
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Brian and the Aliens
by Will Shetterly
A boy and his dog were walking in the woods when they saw a space ship land. Two space aliens came out of it. One alien was blue, and one was green, and they were both covered with scales, large red eyes, and long tent...
November 11, 2012
"The Last of John Ringo" by Emma Bull
The Last of John Ringo
by Emma Bull
You were dead, all but the bullet.
Was there a shining, sober moment,
A choice, a rightness,
Like the one between the trigger pulled
And the target struck,
When the end seemed the only, perfect one?
Last waltz, last chord, and home in the moonlight?
One thing forgotten, another misplaced,
A third mishandled, a fourth dropped unheeded--
Until your life, continued,
Would have been bootless, horseless,
A cartridge belt upside down:
Fool’s motl...
November 9, 2012
"Secret Identity" by Will Shetterly
First published in A Starfarer's Dozen, ed. Michael Stearns. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
Secret Identity
Will Shetterly
Everyone assumed I’d had my masker card for years. Wasn’t I the son of the great Galaxian? The Vampire’s kid had become the Vampire II; everyone assumed I’d be Galaxian, Jr. or Kid Galaxian or something that clearly announced my heritage. When I flew down the h...
Secret Identity
Will Shetterly
Everyone assumed I’d had my masker card for years. Wasn’t I the son of the great Galaxian? The Vampire’s kid had become the Vampire II; everyone assumed I’d be Galaxian, Jr. or Kid Galaxian or something that clearly announced my heritage. When I flew down the h...
November 8, 2012
"Man of Action" by Emma Bull
Man of Action
lyrics by Emma Bull
My therapist had quite a lot to say
When I explained I was unmoved by chocolates and bouquets.
“What are you looking for in love,” she asked, “that you can’t find?”
I said, “The smell of cordite would brighten up my day.”
Does he wear his jacket loose to hide the holster?
Does he keep his schedule free to cut and run?
I’m the girl dressed in black in the Lotus Elan
And I’m looking for a man of action.
But sensitive and sweet gives me...
lyrics by Emma Bull
My therapist had quite a lot to say
When I explained I was unmoved by chocolates and bouquets.
“What are you looking for in love,” she asked, “that you can’t find?”
I said, “The smell of cordite would brighten up my day.”
Does he wear his jacket loose to hide the holster?
Does he keep his schedule free to cut and run?
I’m the girl dressed in black in the Lotus Elan
And I’m looking for a man of action.
But sensitive and sweet gives me...
November 7, 2012
"Oldthings" by Will Shetterly
First published in Xanadu 2, ed. Jane Yolen. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
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Oldthings
by Will Shetterly
Jeffy got silver bullets, Jill got a matched pair of big golden crosses, and I got a lousy wooden stake. I sat crosslegged on the floor, looking at this three-foot-long pointed stick, and said, “What’s this? A carve-your-own-cane kit?”
Poppa Fred had his sense of humor remov...
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Oldthings
by Will Shetterly
Jeffy got silver bullets, Jill got a matched pair of big golden crosses, and I got a lousy wooden stake. I sat crosslegged on the floor, looking at this three-foot-long pointed stick, and said, “What’s this? A carve-your-own-cane kit?”
Poppa Fred had his sense of humor remov...
November 6, 2012
"De la Tierra" by Emma Bull
First published in The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking 2004. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
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De la Tierra
Emma Bull
The piano player drums away with her left hand, dropping all five fingers onto the keys as if they weigh too much for her to hold up. The rhythms bounce off the rhythms of what her right hand does, what she s...
November 5, 2012
"Taken He Cannot Be" by Will Shetterly
First published in Immortal Unicorn, ed. Peter S. Beagle and Janet Berliner (HarperPrism, 1995). Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
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Taken He Cannot Be
by Will Shetterly
Things die. This is the lesson that everyone learns. Some do not learn it until the instant before death, but we all learn it. We pass our final exam by dying. Dr. John Henry Holliday earned his diploma from the s...
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Taken He Cannot Be
by Will Shetterly
Things die. This is the lesson that everyone learns. Some do not learn it until the instant before death, but we all learn it. We pass our final exam by dying. Dr. John Henry Holliday earned his diploma from the s...
November 4, 2012
"The Princess and the Lord of Night" by Emma Bull
First published as a picture book by Harcourt Brace. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.
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"The Princess and the Lord of Night"
by Emma Bull
This story is for Carolyn Brust, with best wishes.
Once upon a time there was a princess who had everything she wanted. She had a horse as white as the high clouds of a summer sky who could run from one end of the kingdom to the other in a...
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"The Princess and the Lord of Night"
by Emma Bull
This story is for Carolyn Brust, with best wishes.
Once upon a time there was a princess who had everything she wanted. She had a horse as white as the high clouds of a summer sky who could run from one end of the kingdom to the other in a...
