Yuletide Reveals
I wrote six stories this Yuletide, which is my record; however, they are all short, so it's not the most words I've ever written.
Don't need to know canon
Riders of the Purring Sage. EDS Cat Herders Commercial. Written in the style of Louis L'Amour, if he wrote about cowboys herding cats. Or should I say catboys?
Read the author's notes; they're part of the story (and by the way, I had trim down my initial, much longer list of cat westerns to just six. The Manx With No Name. Butch Calico and the Sundance Kit. The Ocicat Josey Wales. Catfight at the O. K. Corral. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Kitten Robert Ford. For a Few Collars More. The Good, the Bad, and the Furry. Okay, I'll stop now.) No cats are harmed, though many humans are scratched. Some cats are briefly endangered, and there are references to famous cats who are deceased by the time of the story.
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The Extraordinary Egg. Corfu Trilogy - Gerald Durrell. This is marginal in terms of need to know canon: I think you don't have to, but it's funnier if you do. It's based on a series of hilarious memoirs by Gerald Durrell, a noted zookeeper and conservationist, of his animal-obsessed childhood with his eccentric family on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s. Aurilly had the charming prompt that the family should encounter a creature from Greek myth.
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Need to know canon
You Take Your Choice At This Time. Dark Tower - Stephen King. A very short canon AU. I was really happy with how this came out, so I hope you check it out if you know the series. It will make no sense if you haven't read the series through Wizard in Glass.
HUGE spoilers for the story below, please don't read unless you've already read the story (which is only 500 words).
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She is Large, She Contains Multitudes. Blade Runner 2049. A short focusing on Joi, the virtual reality girlfriend, about programming, free will, and what it means to be a real girl.
And finally, two from The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander.
The Hands of an Enchantress. An introspective story from Achren's POV about her relationship with Eilonwy, set during the brief period while Achren has enchanted her.
Taking Flight. A pre-series story about Eilonwy and Achren, this time from Eilonwy's POV. She's a really fun character to write; characters who think very fast always are. She's clearly thinking at great speed and making a lot of associations very quickly, which is why when she talks, a lot of the connections are left out and the other characters are left scrambling to keep up.
Notes are spoilery; please read the story first if you're interested.
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Don't need to know canon
Riders of the Purring Sage. EDS Cat Herders Commercial. Written in the style of Louis L'Amour, if he wrote about cowboys herding cats. Or should I say catboys?
Read the author's notes; they're part of the story (and by the way, I had trim down my initial, much longer list of cat westerns to just six. The Manx With No Name. Butch Calico and the Sundance Kit. The Ocicat Josey Wales. Catfight at the O. K. Corral. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Kitten Robert Ford. For a Few Collars More. The Good, the Bad, and the Furry. Okay, I'll stop now.) No cats are harmed, though many humans are scratched. Some cats are briefly endangered, and there are references to famous cats who are deceased by the time of the story.
Spoilery notes: ( Read more... )
The Extraordinary Egg. Corfu Trilogy - Gerald Durrell. This is marginal in terms of need to know canon: I think you don't have to, but it's funnier if you do. It's based on a series of hilarious memoirs by Gerald Durrell, a noted zookeeper and conservationist, of his animal-obsessed childhood with his eccentric family on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s. Aurilly had the charming prompt that the family should encounter a creature from Greek myth.
( Read more... )
Need to know canon
You Take Your Choice At This Time. Dark Tower - Stephen King. A very short canon AU. I was really happy with how this came out, so I hope you check it out if you know the series. It will make no sense if you haven't read the series through Wizard in Glass.
HUGE spoilers for the story below, please don't read unless you've already read the story (which is only 500 words).
( Read more... )
She is Large, She Contains Multitudes. Blade Runner 2049. A short focusing on Joi, the virtual reality girlfriend, about programming, free will, and what it means to be a real girl.
And finally, two from The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander.
The Hands of an Enchantress. An introspective story from Achren's POV about her relationship with Eilonwy, set during the brief period while Achren has enchanted her.
Taking Flight. A pre-series story about Eilonwy and Achren, this time from Eilonwy's POV. She's a really fun character to write; characters who think very fast always are. She's clearly thinking at great speed and making a lot of associations very quickly, which is why when she talks, a lot of the connections are left out and the other characters are left scrambling to keep up.
Notes are spoilery; please read the story first if you're interested.
( Read more... )
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