Anke wrote a Tumblr post on sexism in sf&f. I have complicated thinky thoughts related to this, and decided I should unpack them in my own post ( Read more... )

On my hatchday, my clan fought ( Read more... )

Apart from the staircase leading up to the attic, the storeroom held mostly empty boxes; Jim poked through them while waiting for the rest of the kids to catch up, and found an old journal. "Hey, it has more of Mr. Vernon's notes about his experiments." Jim flipped through to the final page as the last kid entered the room. "He wrote 'They're ( Read more... )

Wayne had wandered into one of the side rooms. A grand piano and a piano bench rested in one corner, while a couple of chairs and a couch bracketed the fireplace. Wayne searched the room with the thoroughness of the World's Greatest Detective. As the other kids came in, Wayne was pulling out a sack that had been concealed in a hollow behind a ( Read more... )

Kristi convinced Adelaide's mom as well as her own parents to let Adelaide sleep over. Kristi's own father worked the night shift, and her mother went to bed around nine. At about eleven, they prepared to sneak out: Kristi dressed up like a ninja, all in black. Adelaide was as quiet in sneaking as she was in class: she went out the window and ( Read more... )

At school, the principal reprimanded both Jim and Scotty, one after the other, for causing trouble on the bus ( Read more... )

It was Monday morning, and eight kids -- ranging in age from four to eleven -- waited at the street corner for the school bus to arrive. Kristi, in fifth grade, was the oldest, wearing a black skirt and jacket with a neckcloth and a white blouse -- like a school uniform, even though they all went to public school and didn't have a uniform. She was ( Read more... )

[This is the for terrana's tarot story prompt. Since Terrana likes Delight, I decided to make it a delight_in_wt story. Delight is long-winded, so this will take several entries. Cross-posted to delight_in_wtGuess what? I'm going on another adventure! No, not because I need money. I'm still rich from the last adventure! This one is kind of a favor to Mirhandrax. Well, I guess ( Read more... )

"Come play a game with me, Limit." A video window opened, showing a brown-and-beige space otter at a computer ( Read more... )

The arrival of the first garden faerie was, to be honest, a relief ( Read more... )