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Originally posted here in response to the prompt "smear." It's, ah, um, fan-fiction for a roleplay in my Tir na Cali setting that
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Originally posted here in response to the prompt "Hallow."

I think it's Fairies (Tir na Cali) in SpaaaceThe ground was barren, without a place for the holy beings to call home, without a place of concretion where they could talk to their gods. Some worried that, so far from home, their gods would not hear them, even if they did the rites to ( Read more... )

Someone (*cough*Hob*cough*) talked me into trying to write a Cali novel ( Read more... )

Three Word Wednesday is a once-weekly 3-word writing prompt.

This week's three words were Loud, Persuasive, Riches.

The naming conventions of the Tuathans in Tir na Cali, where this story is set, are ... weird. Suffice it to say, it's okay that he's both ap Gwydion and ó Gwydion.The ap Gwydion boy was loud. Not surprising in a line who had ( Read more... )

Originally posted here, in repsonse to the prompt:

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him."

I think it's Tir na Cali --> Catpeople, but I'm not certain.The rage was never as solid as it was that Wednesday, never as hot, never as silent ( Read more... )

Originally posted here, in response to the prompt: "The darkness holding me tightly / Until the sun rises up." Faint shades of Cali, but rather faint.Night had never felt so safe as it did in her little cubbyhole, so wrapped-in-cotton, so silent, and so entirely entrapping. Nothing could get to her, locked in her tiny, dark room, in her bunk with ( Read more... )

Three Word Wednesday is a once-weekly 3-word writing prompt.

Last week's three words were descent, kill, surreal.

This is a sequel to Keyed Up and Gifted, and thus completes the triptych.

RestraintShe’d never admit it to anyone, but as she tried to pretend she wasn’t waiting for word, Ursula, granddaughter to Duchess Lemaria but heir to ( Read more... )

This is a sequel to " Gifted," a story set in a Duchess' harem in my Tir na Cali setting.

Keyed UpStephen stared at the slender box with the single key. The other gifts had ranged from neutral, co-worker, distant-relative sorts of Christmas presents (Yule, this fucked-up place had no Christmas, just a knockoff holiday they called something ( Read more... )

TirNaCali is an alternate-history setting of mine, set in a world where the West Coast of the United States is its own nation, a matriarchal nation of magic-using lovelies who are both slave-owning and kidnap people from America to serve as slaves. It's an entirely self-indulgent setting, but fun to write in ( Read more... )