Thanks to everyone who participated in the July Prompt Request I wrote twenty-two stories to prompts. These were:

Afterlife
The Atlanteans' Return - Part 2
Worth The Trek
Testing A Theory
Might Have Beens
Washup
On The Edge Of Disaster
Looking For A Clue
Recruitment Drive
Bubbles of Inspiration
Juveniles in Custody
In A New Town
Our Team
Conversation With A ( Read more... )

This is the second background piece for the July Prompt Call.

It began with the Deep Altar and priestesses.  The Deep Altar because it sat galleries down in a cave complex, occupying a cavern that was an analogue of the Devourer of All’s own Eternal Cavern.  Priestesses because men who made the journey to the Deep Altar did not return, The Silence ( Read more... )

Ladies, Gentlemen and Other Beings of Distinction,

I'm finishing up the July Prompt Request and I find I owe you all a second background piece.

What do you want to know about?  Please tell me.

“Now to recap the program, I‘d like the members of our panel to summarise the most important developments in the first twelve months of the new regime and Emperor Yannic’s reign.  Professor Liffen?” the moderator indicated the middle aged woman on the far right of the screen.

“I believe Yannic’s most significant political achievement has been the ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's paid extension.  This follows on from After The Fairy Tale and After The Fairy Tale II.

Prince Rupert let her cry for a few moments then fished a handkerchief out of a pocket and pressed it into her hand.  “Here, use this,” he said kindly.  “Is being married to me so bad, Lady Jonna, that you’d rather return to you father’s manor ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's eleventh prompt.

Vann, also called Uisge, was waiting for the boats.  He understood races and winning.  Also the things some people would do to win and how much they would pay, which was why he was here now.  Lurking below the water’s surface with extended claws and fins.  Being careful to do only what he was paid to do.

The boat ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's tenth prompt.

“It’s over.”  The grim man in the war-used helm surveyed the battlefield and the smoking ruin beyond it.  “Tharngorm is thrown down and the Dark Lord is dead.”

“Finally,” the dark skinned man with the long bow grinned at his companions, “a chance to find out what life is like without him hanging over us.”

“We can learn ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's ninth prompt.  This follows After The Fairy Tale and is followed by After The Fairy Tale III.

They’d told her that she was going home with a new dress as a reward for helping Prince Terrence.  A new dress, a completely new dress, never worn by anyone else before was certainly worth bathing for.  Jonna could agree with that but ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's eighth prompt.

“Do you know what this is?”

It dangled from his fingers much the way she dangled from the suspension frame.  The difference was it was on display while she was being restrained.  It was a simple silver collar.  A flexible band of metal with a clip at the back.

“Yes.”  An admission of fact.  That was all she was going ( Read more... )

I wrote this in response to aldersprig's seventh prompt.

Terris Strefagi was in a night club somewhere near the Autodromo.  He wasn’t exactly sure where it was, but that was often the way when you let someone who’d been there before but wasn’t quite sober now navigate for the group.  The sponsor, more particularly the sponsor’s owner, had insisted on taking ( Read more... )