Fireborn: I'll Show Her!

[wyld_dandelyon]

New readers--Welcome! This is the latest installment in a sponsor-supported serial called Fireborn.

The first chapter of Fireborn is Wings on His Fingers. Feel free to click over to there if you haven't read the earlier chapters yet.  There's a link at the end of every chapter leading to the next, so you don't have to scroll through my whole journal

Comments

[wyld_dandelyon]

What the heck? I didn't put a cut tag in five times. Really. I have no idea why they're all there.

I'm too tired to stare at html right now. I'll see if I can fix this tomorrow. In the meantime, the top one goes where it should, or you can just scroll back up, almost to the picture.

Sorry about that!

[wyld_dandelyon]

There. It took too long, but all I have left is an unsightly bit of html (that form thingy). It's better, at least. And the paypal button is re-tested.

I like doing this fiddly stuff better as part of my day job! Or did, when I did have a day job. When it takes time from the creative writing, it gets frustrating. Not the best thing for my mood, right after seeing no jobs to apply for in the paper or Monster and few in other online sites.

[sythyry]

Yum! Is that the faint scent of distant doom I smell?

Not that I would ever recognise it. My doom is all close up and obvious.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Doom is never as far as one hopes, especially in the middle of a novel.

Or, more precisely, Doom is never as far as the characters hope...clearly at least one reader is looking forward to a bit of chaos.

[red_trillium]

Thank you for sharing :) I like how you're building it up.

[wyld_dandelyon]

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[oakwind]

"With her wings all stretched out and starting to feel just a little bit tired, she was at least feeling so angry."

I'm sorry I am having trouble parsing this sentence. Is there something wrong with the last bit?

Otherwise I am enjoying each installment and wishing for more, sooner:) While there is some prejudice in this world as we see the Mayor's attitude towards Fireborns, I really like the way these different forms of people are accepted with the differences appreciated and taken into account during interaction without those differences being looked on as weaknesses. It seems like a good model for dealing with the differently abled, aged, and other such differences.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Oh--definitely a typo. I will fix! Thank you for catching it. (Though, of course, I wish it wasn't there to be caught.)

I like to imagine a world where superficial differences don't cause a lot of prejudice, and in fact one of the legends here is that the different forms were created, and made so closely intertwined, as a reaction against that kind of prejudice. But this world isn't lacking in it either--remember Coral talking about Minnow being born "right--I mean, lakeborn" ?

I like the idea of my work being seen as a good model for dealing with differently-abled. You're setting the bar high for me--it's not often that one story can serve both as a model for how to do it right and a warning about how to do it wrong! (-: