Title: birch forests
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; crew of the Bogoroditsa
Prompt: 53D "desecrate"
Word Count: 7487, god help me.
Notes: This is a major expansion piece, incorporating (and altering) back to the woods, torn posters, part of oh, my god . . and the spark "goosebumps on foxes". (In case you're wondering? Stitching ( Read more... )

Title: lightning in the dark
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; crew of the Bogoroditsa
Prompt: 79D "fuck"
Word Count: 2125
Notes: Several days later than I was hoping to post this . . . (stupid balking engineer. Stupid elbow.), this is a different angle on the events here. I find the contrast between the two inappropriately hilarious ( Read more... )

Title: oh, my god . . .
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Ilya, Katya, etc
Prompt: 98D "puzzle"
Word Count: 475
Notes: when I put my head between her and her laptop, billradish suggested 'pewter' as a way of making me go away. Yes, I am breaking pattern.
This follows from the previous.
An Image For You.

( He did end up banging on something with a wrench, but it didn't make him feel better. )

Title: torn posters
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Ilya, Katya, etc
Prompt: 95D "advertisement"
Word Count: 474
Notes: Katya was introduced in mice and messages. I haven't written out what brings this crew here, yet, I'm sorry. If it helps any, it links to the long-ago sketch here.

( All of the posters were old, paint faded, display fogged by the mirror's degradation, the images the kind that hadn't been used in years, long sticklike figures of people and trees, old horse designs swooping through a panel to show their repaired sides, small black swallows at the corners to give contact information. )

Title: mice and messages
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Ilya
Word Count: 1082
Notes: This is the beginning of the story, I think. Originally designed to combine the comment-size pieces a jade figure, bottled, over-processed & sweetened tea, and a table top scarred from work tools.

( There was a message waiting for the captain. )

Title: in theory
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Ilya
Prompt: 68C "limitless"
Word Count: 174
Notes: after he got his sticky fingers on a not!z-machine, well before he ran into Sinclair. Prompted by a poll response.
Car-di is I think her individual abbreviation of 'carbon dioxide'.

( Here, I'll make it simple. )