Not leaving Kudos
I wrote a series of tiny stories about readers Not Leaving Kudos on ArchiveofOurOwn, prompted by a thread over on the ushobwri community. Kept them in a file for a bit and added one when I thought of one, and eventually in a fit of randomness posted them on Ao3
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Voices jabbered all around him. "What news?" they asked him. "Was there a battle? What of the Persians? Tell us? Tell us?"
He coughed, choking on city dust. Hands reached for him, but he batted them away. "Must..." he gasped. "Tell..." He coughed again, and fell forward, pain ripping through his chest. "Tell Aeschylus… Must let him know... Loved... I loved his play."
They grabbed him, took him up, shook him. "But what news of the battle?" It was asked in a dozen voices, in a dozen ways. But quiet and inescapable behind it, someone grumbled, "Isn't Aeschylus with the army? Why didn't the fool tell him then instead of running all the way back here?"
"Oh," said Pheidippides, as the waters of Lethe closed over his head and took him down and away.
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Must. Resist. Urge to write the message in a bottle shipwreck one, and How We Brought The Kudos From Aix to Ghent, and the 1001 other ideas that woke me up at five in the morning and kept me awake for hours.
I blame you for this, you know. :-P
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You've now written more of it than I did!
Shall I add you as a co-author so you can add these as chapter 2, or would that make things worse? :-DDD
*although given that I woke up at 5am to write more Russian Finrod Musical stuff, I really have no right to be laughing at anyone for the weird things their brain insists on doing.
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Seems rather unfair to be given co-author status, given that all the kudos are rightfully belong to you. I guess, if you agree, I could post a companion story that references and gives due credit to your original...
I didn't intend to write so much, but sadly, I have absolutely NIL skill at writing short things. Ideas that really by rights out to be 500 words usually end up being at least 5000 when I get my hands on them. And the same happens to LJ comments, evidently. :-)
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Hah, I wish I wrote that fast. Some of those microstories took me a whole dogwalk each!
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I appear to have written two more (although one was a total rewrite of one I wrote yesterday, with added apocalypse, all your fault). I was thinking that there wasn't much point in posting them, but now I'm thinking that I really do need to post them, if only to tell my brain that this whole idea is now finished and out there and NOTHING MORE CAN BE ADDED TO IT, THE END.
Not really sure about what is the best way to post them, though. I'm kind of still boggling that the fandom you posted it in actually exists! :-O
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I was delighted to use the 'other relationships' checkbox for the first time and discover it made that... that... rune thing.
Post them. It will make me feel terribly important, as if I have Created a Genre :-D
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The sinister Rune of Other alarms me, so I made mine safely Gen.
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