I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "The one thing you don't expect to find in the middle of a giant skyscraper is a sword lodged in a boulder."

For those with spoons or time issues it is 2,198 words long.

One thing you don't expect to find in the middle of a giant skyscraper is a sword lodged in a boulder. Especially not on a 56th floor mezzanine level ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "Are there people left in Rensa's universe who know why these worlds were colonized?"

Cirian first appears in Return Visit.

Cirian was a week early to the meeting. She had thought to do some sight-seeing first and find out how Firilis had changed in the centuries she’d been travelling the stars. Perhaps do some shopping ( Read more... )

I wrote this to ysabetwordsmith's prompt ""The First of Her Kind".

The Extraterrestial Expansion Grants Committee was in session. “Next we have Dr Rozina Tortosa,” the Secretary read from the agenda. “Dr Tortosa is going to present on the viability of her proposal to genetically engineer settlers for Guel1974e.”

“She would be unaware of item two, wouldn’t she?” ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "A birth, a rebirth, a death, and a song."

The room was darkened and the focus was on a grunting, pushing woman. “One more,” crooned the midwife, “and you’ll have done it. Here it comes, push. That’s right.” There was business with cloths and strings and a knife. “Here you are, a beautiful little girl.” The midwife eased ( Read more... )

There's a whole day, 24 hours, left for prompting and signal boosting for my Prompt Request!

I wrote this in response to Anonymous' prompt of "Parthi."

“So,” the therapist smiled across the corner of his desk at the young woman who’d come in for her first therapy session, “in your own words, why are you here?”

“My grandparents can’t accept that my parents are dead and want to throw money at private investigators and others of less dubious ( Read more... )

I wrote this in response to kelkyag's prompt of "Mayin."

“Oh my,” muttered Ley to her husband Edan as they watched his older sister, Mayin, being guided around the dance floor by the man with a cybernetic hand and eye and wearing the foreign military uniform, “physical competence is very attractive, isn’t it?”

“You think he looks attractive?” Edan looked ( Read more... )

In response to aldersprig's prompt "Ancient creatures now, for the first time, fully visible in the light." I wrote this:

“Should we open it?”

“It’s a little late to be asking that now, isn’t it?” Lorna Fenton, Professor Emeritus of Exploratory Palaeontology at the Polygnostic University of Hornsby was leaning on her walking stick and talking to a former ( Read more... )

Alright, Christmas is over, it’s almost New Year and I am on leave for a few weeks so I’m going to essay another prompt request. The deadline for prompts to be in is breakfast, my time, on 3 January 2014 which is sometime in the afternoon of the 2nd for North America.  Prompts are now closed.

So, the rules of this Prompt Request are:

1. 
   There will be ( Read more... )