I wrote this to aldersprig's third prompt and it turned out to be the origin story of the character who turns up in the last few paragraphs of The Funeral And The Wake. It runs to 701 words.

James Waltman was a tall, skinny eighteen year old who was new in town from he wasn’t saying where. He put an ad in the newspaper classifieds offering ‘objects found’ ( Read more... )

This comes some time after A Possible Way Ahead and runs to 738 words. It was written for aldersprig's second prompt.

Rensa was looking after Mirren for once, not the other way around. Bannoc was away giving his lecture to another set of new military recruits and Mirren was within three weeks of her due date. Her baby could decide to be born at any time ( Read more... )

I wrote this to kunama_wolf's anonymous prompt and it came in at 606 words.

“Well, it was back when there was water on the moon,” began Warial before he had to duck the seat cushion Tala threw at him.

“You said you were going to tell me a true story,” Tala told him, “but that’s how humans start stories about things that never happened!”

“She has a point,” ( Read more... )

I have taken a vacation day and turned this holiday three day weekend into a four day weekend. Yeah is me!

In honour of four days off, I am holding another prompt request and in order to be a little different, this one will involve a theme. (Let’s see if I can write to one. J) I will close the call to new prompts and signal boosting when I get up on ( Read more... )