The Road to the Great Eastern Sea

J. Comer

Tracking

He woke and Hilojat was gone.  He waited, still, for footsteps, for a figure to show near their fire, but there was nothing.  Longer he listened, but no sounds, nothing to indicate that there were others in the world, on Pendleton’s World.  The manhorses stirred, perhaps sensing him awake.  It was ( Read more... )

Interlude:  The Chapel of the Knowstone

J. Comer

There were two men in the room. One was old. One was young.

The room was an eleven-meter cube, sunk into the subsoil of the grounds of Vokherkhe Monastery University; olivine and peridotite showed in the stone walls and the floor was a mosaic showing the progression of Saint Chenanun and Saint Chenogu ( Read more... )

Humans land on Sedna.  They build a nanofactured diamond sphere as a hab. There is conflict, and in a mini-war, records of Earth are lost ( Read more... )

It's the late nineteenth century in the Yukon, in the world of Soldier's Coat.A pimp fights, gets hit on the head, knifes the other guy, for his whores.  He wants to take two up river to the gold mines of the headwaters of the Porcupine.  Blurred vision and confusion blind him to the fact that the girls nominate two cross-dressers to go, since the ( Read more... )

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Dangerous Seats

and the Other Sort

A Tale of Pendleton’s World

The earthwork shook as the huge projectile hit and burst, splashing burning tar in all directions. The wounded man on the stretcher cried out, perhaps hit, perhaps not. Khethat Junashson shouted “Get dow--“ and was knocked ( Read more... )

Laws and judgments

Judgments, set down in the *Chenanak*, the traditional law, are levitical:

Thieves pay court costs and the stolen item's price, usually by working at unpleasant tasks.  Note that court costs can vary a good deal.

Men convicted of fighting or assault are beaten. Note that if witnesses agree that the fight was a duel, there is ( Read more... )

Outline for Pendleton’s Story Suite

Stories

“Windbox”- Charthat and Hilojat meet, elude Sirat, and become lovers

“Salt Sailing”- The lovers raise a slave revolt and reinvent the landsailer, which wrecks

“Kitten and Charcoal”- Sirat and Etroklos withstand an assault by the noble Taranth who seeks the knowledge which the wizard has

“Bread Soup Red ( Read more... )

Red Root ( Read more... )

I don't hope or doubt for it, personally. I know only today. And that if today wasn't a good one. I need to learn what I can to fix it.
jcomer2001
2:14 PMfix the day
2:14 PMthat is a GOOD story idea

Idea:
There are people who fix days. Some work for the 'government', some privately. They can be hired, or work for themselves.

A crew is mining minerals in location X. They have a skilled medic with software and equipment. Plague breaks out in location Y. The crew cannot get there with their solar sail....but they can with a hideously dangerous chemical rocket reaction that one of them read about in an old storyfile. The result of the radioactive oxidizer, in a ship ( Read more... )