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a story for my New Year’s Prompt Call, which you should go prompt at please, here.

Warning… a wee bit maudlin. 

The snow had finally melted.  It had been a long winter – slow-starting but then dumping buckets of snow on us all of February and March and most of April.

It was May 5th, and I could finally see all of the grass, or at least the parts that had survived.  I could see, too, my poor…

It was January Third.

I remember because nobody was hungover but work wasn’t really getting back to normal yet – not the second but not the fifth, that sort of thing? (more…)

Suffering - a story for my New Year's Eve Prompt Call.

a story for my New Year’s Prompt Call, which you should go prompt at please, here.

She had learned tricks in her time, and one of them was the fuel that kept her going.

She wasn’t supposedto keep going, that was part of the problem.  She was a construct, and she had been built for one particularly strange revenge that had been intended to last a couple weeks, maybe a couple months. She had been…

Hello to all and a Merry/Happy Christmas! Today I’m spending the day at home – except possibly sushi in the evening – and I’m writing! So: I will write a short Christmas vignette in any setting of mine you’d like to see (or appropriate winter holiday) or to a (winter-holiday-themed) prompt of your choosing. (If this floods me, I may end up writing these over the next week~ ) (Including during the…