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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fiction
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FANFICTION:

General Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by other people and corporations. I make no money from this borrowing of intellectual property, and intend no ( Read more... )

Batch the first, more to come. :)

All prompts drawn from the 2022 iteration of the Three Sentence Ficathon (post one and post two), hosted by the wonderful
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Niche skills I never expected to need: operating a freight elevator.

Niche skills I possess and have in fact used on multiple separate occasions, even though they have nothing to do with my job description: operating a freight elevator.

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On a tangentially related note, I know how to gently re-humidify crispy tobacco, set snap-traps for mice, ( Read more... )

It is surprisingly difficult to sleep when you can't put pressure on half of your head or on your right hip.

(This post brought to you by the weird contortions and mangled pillows that finally allowed me to drift off last night. My poor pillow may never be the same, and it wasn't great sleep, but at least I got some rest.) If you want to comment on ( Read more... )

So last night I said to myself, "I bet the front steps will be slippery tomorrow morning, since it's been nearly 40 degrees today and there will be a hard freeze down into the mid-teens overnight. I should salt them."

But did I put salt on the steps? No I did not, because I was in a hurry to make some soup and get ready for the Board of Trustees ( Read more... )

1. The Goodyear staff fixed my car! It turns out that the front right corner of the under-engine shield had torn loose, so they trimmed off the useless part and refastened the rest with some zip-ties, as one does. Apparently the fender also got knocked a little loose, and couldn't be reattached with complete security because one of the connecting ( Read more... )

Things that happened to me today:

1. Drove over a big chunk of ice that tore loose part of the plastic shield under my car engine. The plastic segment is now hanging down and scraping against the road when I drive, which makes a horrible racket and cannot possibly be good for my poor car. I have made an appointment with Goodyear to get it looked at ( Read more... )

Okay, I dug out the front steps, the part of the front sidewalk between the steps and the driveway, the driveway, and my car. Also a good bit of the street in a bid NOT to have the snowplows build a rampart of snow I will need to shovel through when I return home.

I have mopped myself down with a cold washcloth, taken some ibuprofen and ( Read more... )

I was like, "I will write a tiny Magnus Archives fill for this prompt, in which an OC gets eaten by an evil teacup that is a joint manifestation of the Vast and the Spiral!"

Eight hundred words later, this turned into a story about work and dreams and toxic relationships and I am only just getting around to where someone finally gets eaten by the ( Read more... )

Three-Sentence Ficathon 2022, courtesy of the amazing
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