Summary: Shadowfall brings truth into her dreams. [390 words]

Note: Written for
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The first is actually from the previous iteration of the ficathon. It is an alternate fill for a prompt which I didn't post to the ficathon itself because it requires a bunch of contextual information to make sense. In other words, it's set loosely in the world of Sunbright and Shadowfall, which works because "Sunbright and Shadowfall" is itself ( Read more... )

More thinking out loud! As before, constructive feedback is welcomed with open arms. :)

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Here is Susan's prompt, as discussed via telephone and text message: Protagonist (age somewhere between 20 and 40, all other details up to me) has a cool secret, which gets revealed. Other characters are duly impressed. Preferably a world superficially ( Read more... )

Summary: In which Sunbright unexpectedly acquires a body-servant. (525 words)

( Cast a Shadow )

Summary: Sunbright is twelve when she first kills another human. (500 words)

Note: More exploratory noodling. I don't think Sunbright knows Shadowfall at this point, but they definitely meet within a year of this incident.

( Tooth and Claw )

Summary: Sunbright has a complicated relationship to the prophecy that shaped her life. (425 words)

Note: More exploratory noodling for "Sunbright and Shadowfall." This is my initial attempt at Sunbright's POV, though it's not very tight; there are shades of third person omniscient around the edges. But it's kind of hard to write a story if you ( Read more... )

Summary: Four days after Shadowfall's parents were executed, her aunt Greenleaf cut her finger while chopping onions. Her blood was silver. (350 words)

Note: And yet more noodling. This is actually a stab at the opening of the story proper, though I'm sure it has many flaws I'm not seeing at the moment. I think Shadowfall is about nine years ( Read more... )

Summary: The sleeping city is empty now, but Shadowfall cannot take that final step beyond the thorns. (350 words)

Note: Some more exploratory noodling for "Sunbright and Shadowfall." Details are, of course, subject to change as I hammer out more concrete world-building.

( Penance )

This evening I decided to do some concrete outlining of "Sunbright and Shadowfall" (working title of my Sleeping-Beauty-plus-lesbians-plus-world-conquest story), which has proved... um... interesting? I conceived it as a strict alternating-POV story, which creates some odd imbalances in narrative weight at various points. Writing up an outline ( Read more... )

Some more noodling around for "Sunbright and Shadowfall," that Sleeping-Beauty-with-lesbians-and-world-conquest story I mentioned a while back. This is a moment from Shadowfall's childhood, before things go terribly wrong for her family. (600 words)

( Paved with Love )