Archive | August 2020

Purchase Negotiation 46: Normality

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“Finally getting the hang of it, you think?”

Sylviane and Leander headed out of the fifth of the five classes she was – they were – taking this semester.

Leander pinched the top of his nose. “I’m getting there,” he admitted. “Uh. Office hours. Is that really a thing people do? I mean, like, do you-“

Dead gods help him. He was starting to sound like Inka.

“I do. Not every one, but generally at least one a week. We can do more if you think you need it.” Continue reading →

Saving the Cult (if not the World), Chapter Twenty-Seven

Aug28

Had Jackson planned for this much interruption? She didn’t want to wait to find out.

Lina had lost physical contact with her team while she dealt with — with whatever that was. She grabbed for the nearest hands – Dylan and Jackson – turned, pulled a shield over them, and hurried down the path towards the exit.

She counted to a hundred in her head, all of them walking the fastest they could manage, before she asked Ethan “Why?” She hoped he could follow the rest of the question, because she wasn’t sure she could vocalize it, especially since he hadn’t vocalized much of what she was asking about.

“Because I thought – I had suspicions about my aunts – but I always told myself people were just really into the Organization. But if they can – that’s not what Dylan’s dad does. I mean, it’s close – Sorry, Dylan-“ Continue reading →

Purchase Negotiation 45: First Class

Aug22

First: Purchased: Negotiation

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“Really kidnapped?” Inka had said that, asked it, at least four times already, and they weren’t even to class yet.

Leander was beginning to think the big problem wasn’t going to be surviving classes, it was going to be surviving Inka.

“Well, I mean, obviously not actually kidnapped, because Leander stopped them.” Sylviane patted Leander on the arm with obvious affection and something like gratitude, which made sense, when he was pretending to be her boyfriend.

Just doing my job.

He couldn’t say that to Inka, who was looking at him with wide eyes. Continue reading →

Saving the Cult (if not the World), Chapter Twenty-Six

Aug21

“Are we?” Ethan had stalled again, no matter how many times that Lina tried to get them moving. “Are we part of the Organization?”

He was, Lina realized, asking her. “I’m the one that just found out about this thing a couple days ago,” she reminded them. “I’m not sure you should be talking to me about it.”

“You’re the one in charge,” Dylan countered. “There’s nobody else we can ask. Are you part of the Organization?”

“The question is more, do you want to run the Organization?” At least Jackson pitched his voice quietly.

“Kids!” A new voice called out, somewhere behind them.

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The Freshest Fish

Aug21

The Freshest

This story is a follow-up to Fresh Fish from my Fishy Prompt Call, as it has reached 10 comments (As of the last time I counted). It is set in the city of Scheffenon in the world of Things Unspoken; The story of Scheffenon begins with N is for Nereids ; the story of Eliška begins with R is for Ritual. (I really oughta do another alphabet call…)

“I’m sorry, I have nothing but what you see. I have the freshest river fish, the freshest pond fishes. These here, these are delicious with an herbed butter. These here, they come from a spring where nothing else lives, just these fish, and they taste like the gods themselves would like to eat them.” Continue reading →

The Great August Rebloggening Challenge: Week 2 Check In

Aug17

Home Site housekeeping Challenge

The Home Site Housekeeping Challenge has been going for two weeks now (And a bit, oops)

How’s your home site going? Anything new and shiny?

Did you reach your goal this week? Did you change your goal this week?

Did you learn anything about your site?

Did you do the daily challenge?

What are your goals for next week?

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A daily challenge for Monday: Find something either on your front page or your menu that you haven’t touched in a long time.

Does it still need to be there? If not, delete it.

Does it need to be updated instead? Weekly challenge then! Take a week and clean it up!

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My turn for a check-in:

I got at least three things posted to the blog and the same to Patreon. I got one session posted of Thimbleful, one month of Patreon Xposts, an addition to my Landing Page Landing Page, and worked on my Current Projects page, courtesy Kelkyag 😉

I also did the daily challenge I put up last week – I checked up my contact me page (It’s still up to date) and my Serial Fiction page (which needed some work)

So:

Goal – 11

Done – 12

missed: nada! OTOH, this was closer to the bare minimum.

How’d you do?

Also: You can join in at any time! Any number of “Things” per week is a good goal!

Purchase Negotiation 44: See

Aug15

First: Purchased: Negotiation

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“I want to see you,” she murmured in his ear.

Leander blinked sleepily at Sylviane. The blankets had ended up on the floor. The pillows had ended up somewhere else – the couch over there, he thought.

“I’m right here,.” He’d never been more naked with someone, he thought. Unless she wanted into his mind, which –

which maybe he would not mind all that much, as long as she stayed out of the dark places. “I can’t be much more naked,” he joked.

“I want to see you,” she murmured. “Your Mask down, your face. The way you really look “ Continue reading →

Saving the Cult (if not the World), Chapter Twenty-Five

Aug14

Lina hoped her perky little put-off would work on the terrifying old women. She needed it to work, Jackson’s scheduled-in interruptions or not. It had to work.

Of course, it didn’t. Ethan’s aunts were not going to let her get away with being friendly, chipper, and innocent. Which was a pity, because she more or less was all three of those things.

“Don’t even bother.” The left-hand aunt really wanted to frown, but her face wasn’t moving in that direction at the moment. “You can save that shit for the credulous masses.”

“I will then, thank you.” She turned her back on them. “Come on, Ethan. We’ve got a deadline.” Continue reading →

The August Fishy Call!

Aug14

Good morning!

I have one prompter to write to currently on my Fishy Fishy Prompt call (If you haven’t prompted, you can still prompt here – http://www.lynthornealder.com/2020/08/04/summertime-prompt-call-gone-fishin/ !)

It’s been fun! I got a broad range of prompts and had a lot of fun with them, dark and light and magical and sci-fi and everything in between. And I got comments! And new prompters!

If you posted a what-I-should-write-next or if you are a new prompter or commenter, let me know if you want me to write more of a story below or if you want me to write to another prompt!

And as for writing-more, Comments! I have at least one story with 7+ comments and one with 5+, so if you liked a story now is the time to comment. Because that, my friends, gets it one more comment closer to getting more story!

As always, thank you to everyone who prompted and everyone who commented! Special thanks to Kelkyag, too, for a good deal of commenting and asking me what my projects are.

The Stories So Far

Clean…? The plant offered clean energy. Cleaner might’ve been more accurate. The fish living downstream of the runoff might’ve said something different entirely. This is set in the universe/city/power plant featured in Saving the Cult (If not the World), a ‘verse tagged Organization.
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Seek And…? Long long ago, I began a story about a woman lost in a blizzard and ending up in a different world. This story peeks in on her life, as she fishes for answers and is caught in turn.
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Fresh Fish The city of Scheffenon, on the North Sea high on the edges of the Empire, is known for many things. But one thing that it is not known for – at least in modern times – is fish, or at least fish pulled from the North Sea. They do not fish, not as such, on the North Sea. (Things Unspoken ‘verse)
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Unplumbed Depths – Fishing in Minecraft can get you some strange results. This fictional view of the fishing strips out a lot of the blockier elements but does leave a fishing pole with, perhaps, a little too much Luck enchanted into it.
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…A Break…? – Jess works security at The Facility, a place where science which nobody calls mad (in the hearing of the scientists) is perpetrated. It’s a really good job. But sometimes, your friend up in the top end of things asks for a favor…
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The Night Fishers – they only fished at day. Murph was about to find out why.
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Fishing Day – She should’ve done something better with the body, but it was her fishing day, and she didn’t want to be interrupted.
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Fountain Fishing – There’s nothing alive in this abandoned mall except Abby, Liv, and the fish in the fountain. Not even a protein bar. So going fishing seemed like the reasonable idea, right?
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Train Rolls On….

Aug13

From writing prompt found here.

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“Did you give me this note?”

The train was rumbling on into night time, so I’d been getting settled into “my” sleeper room when the woman came in wielding a note on a lined index card.

I took it from her carefully, using two fingers on the corner, and gave it a glance.

Whatever you do, don’t get off this train until it arrives at the final stop. Continue reading →

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