From the world of Slither and her father we have a glimpse of an event in their future, not that either of them are directly involved.... This is in response to sauergeek's prompt "a hard march to spring a nasty surprise on enemy forces" although it became more about the 'why' than the journey.

The vision feed on the screen in the briefing room swooped ( Read more... )

Today I found a notebook/journal that belongs to a character in one of my worlds.


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This follows on from Parents...2.

It runs to 3,000 words and should have warnings for battlefield setting, injury, death, and discussion of both mortality and expectations of the/an afterlife.

Valentine Trugrove was working his way across a battlefield. He wasn’t dressed for it by any stretch of the imagination. For a start, if he’d started ( Read more... )

And this follows on from And There Are The Awkward Moments With Parents...

“He has a very good sense of self preservation,” the subject of the comment’s daughter said bluntly. “If he can be convinced that being heard talking by the wrong people will have him turning up dead, then I’m sure he can keep his mouth shut. Besides, if he believes half ( Read more... )

I see the father in this piece as rather like Gilderoy Lockheart being played by Kenneth Branagh...

He saw someone he knew and waved at them through the crowd. No-one much paid him any attention, everyone was busy with their own concerns of getting over what had just passed or getting ready for what was to come, but the girl with him hissed, “ ( Read more... )