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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... )

Summary: Ekanu and Denifar on the vision isle. (250 words)

Note: This ficlet is another snippet of "Harvest," this one set sometime after Harvest: Downwind -- I'm inclined to think perhaps the next morning?

( Harvest: Stepping Stones )

Summary: Ekanu takes a class on the history of the Three Day Revolution and the end of the Estarin Empire. (415 words)

Note: This ficlet is set during Ekanu's student years in Estara, though judging by her grasp of Common and recognition of Trinitarian religious imagery, she's been there at least a couple years. So it comes after Learning To ( Read more... )

Summary: Ekanu finally tells Kadeotak that she's going to leave home. (325 words)

Note: This is kind of... backstory for a future story? It's set during the opening section of Learning To Listen, which is the tale of how and why Ekanu came south to Estara and wound up studying at the University and befriending Denifar. Kadeotak is Ekanu's ( Read more... )

Summary: Ekanu spends the summer on the shores of the Inner Sea in Nivenos. (350 words)

Note: This ficlet is set when Ekanu is in her late thirties, after she's attempted to settle down in Pythas and start a family with Ain Taylak. That fell apart for various reasons and she's been doing University chapterhouse inspections again, this time in ( Read more... )

Summary: Ekanu rides the wind, but not as a leaf. She is a bird, and will always return to her home. (300 words)

Note: Look, it's original fiction! \o ( Read more... )

From the department of random world-building:

1. Color Symbolism of the Church of Three

I wrote a fic about Firshome last week, called Against the Flood, in which I mentioned a mosaic of a religious symbol: a stylized silver wave in a circle, on a background of blue, green, and purple tiles. The wave-in-circle is the symbol of Nesta of the Waves ( Read more... )

A snippet about Ekanu watching Denifar do woodcarving, set after Learning to Listen and Barycenter, but before Ekanu leaves for Vinaeo in Seduction. (325 words)

( Craftsmanship )

I have mentioned a few times over the years that I am working on a story called "Small Mysteries," wherein Ekanu meets Ain Taylak, the man she eventually marries, while she is on assignment as a chapterhouse inspector on the continent of Yanomy. I am not anywhere near done with the story, but I have a section that more or less stands on its own as ( Read more... )

Here is another piece of "Harvest." This is set after Ekanu and Denifar have a screaming argument on the vision island. Here they begin to tentatively make up -- mostly because Denifar is a city boy and very much not into this whole 'nature' thing, and Ekanu is willing to take an indirect approach to hashing out their issues. (300 words)

( Harvest: Downwind )