This is by way of signal boost for ysabetwordsmith's monthly Poetry Fishbowl. It's set in their Monster House storyline, and draws its inspiration from " The Care and Feeding of Peeves".

From Barlowe's Comprehensive Field Guide to Ephemeral Life Forms:

GrudgesGrudges most frequently have the appearance of grassy plants, similar to sedges or sawgrass ... There ( Read more... )

This is in response to lone_cat's request for more on the life of Isao Kobayashi, who was introduced in " The Most Powerful, Master Emotion". It is based on ysabetwordsmith's and my exploration of current T-Japanese culture, and my own extrapolations from this into the next twenty years. Content describing events prior to its November 2015 posting has been vetted and may ( Read more... )

ZMT has become likely to appear in further Polychrome Heroics stories. Their logo
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Very special thanks to ysabetwordsmith, who supplied me with a lot of background information as we began filling in blank spaces in mid-twentieth-century Terramagne global history, nudged a lot of my speculations in a direction consistent with their setting, and approved my additions to their canon. This work would not be nearly as detailed or coherent without ( Read more... )

Most of these characters were created by ysabetwordsmith, who has graciously shared them with me for inclusion in the reference material. Characters wholly or partially created by others have been identified.

Featured Characters:


Mr. Pernicious -- Alonzo Donati is an Italian of mixed Moorish descent from Lucera. He has brown skin, blue eyes, and straight black ( Read more... )

This was inspired by a ysabetwordsmith's poem, "By Our Limited Human Standards", which they wrote to one of my prompts.

"In The Soup" is a popular weekly vidcast prepared by the Kraken communications division and distributed from an entertainment portal located on their darknet. A humorous and often snarky summary of goings on in the soup world, it presents ( Read more... )

Continuing the previous demifiction with the second part, set at another memorial site.

Warning: This piece is intense and contains some things that might be upsetting to some. The setting was a site of combat in a recent war, and suffered mass casualties (mostly non-combatants) and extensive damage and destruction over a wide area from an event ( Read more... )

ysabetwordsmith is a very productive writer who puts out lots of neat stuff. (For an example, see a recently posted sample, " Dangerous Refuges".) What's even more fun, they are inclined to allow posts using their settings by people who show interest and appreciation.

I've gotten involved with a variant space-opera setting, "An Army of One", and have previously ( Read more... )

Another piece of demifiction inspired by
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A prompt I sent ysabetwordsmith for their latest Poetry Fishbowl helped inspire their poem, "Too Much Energy". This inspired me to write a couple of pieces of demifiction describing reactions to one of the events mentioned in the poem.This piece is followed by an editorial, "The Conscience of the War", written in reaction to a poem written by a survivor of the ( Read more... )