Comments | seanan_mcguire: New story: "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On."

seanan_mcguire

New story: "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On."

Apr 05, 2010 17:42

Do you like cheerleaders? Do you like aliens? Do you like urban legends? Well, then you're just gonna love my latest published short story, "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On," in which the Fighting Pumpkins Cheer Squad goes up against an alien invasion in a battle to the death, with the very fate of mankind hanging in the balance.

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nightshade_03 April 6 2010, 03:58:39 UTC

... Can I say I don't even like to *think* that lady's name in front of a mirror because I'm afraid she'll gut me like a fish, annnd now I just read that and I am so creeped out. LOL, not even by the alien's aspect which gave me that twitchy 'world is coming to an end' feel but it was like okay, whatevs, let's see how they beat this. And then they pulled out the big guns and I started to get a creepy feeling, especially with the count down of cheerleaders while she was counting down. Oh man. Definitely more afraid of ghosts then aliens [when i'm sitting safe in my room, LOL] great short though.

[I tried not to give anything away in case someone checks the comments before reading so sorry if it's a bit disjointed, lol]

seanan_mcguire April 6 2010, 16:30:11 UTC

That's okay! I get the meaning. :) Glad you liked it. I love the Pumpkins.

wcg April 6 2010, 04:13:42 UTC

Wow. That's a fine combination of high drama and absurdity. Well done.

seanan_mcguire April 6 2010, 16:30:18 UTC

Thank you!

saffronrose April 6 2010, 04:30:32 UTC

I never heard of Bloody/Hell Mary--didn't hang out with an "in" or popular crowd. I was with the nerds of that era.

I LOVE the idea of "Fighting Pumpkins". My son has had a pumpkin obsession since 2 or 3, and he's 16 now. I ended up buying as many pumpkin, halloween, witch, and pirate books as I could find, and THEN I had to work in dinosaurs.

The guy who runs California Carnivores (plants) started out with dinosaurs, and now has a nursery just outside of Sebastopol.

seanan_mcguire April 6 2010, 16:30:40 UTC

The Fighting Pumpkins cheerleaders are often my targets of choice. I love them so.

vincentursus April 6 2010, 10:11:01 UTC

Yay! I've been looking forwards to seeing the Fighting Pumpkins in action.

seanan_mcguire April 6 2010, 16:30:49 UTC

And now you have!

ravenclawed April 6 2010, 14:59:26 UTC

Creepy but good. Definitely not the sort of thing I should be reading before bed, but no nightmares, so it's all good. :-)

seanan_mcguire April 6 2010, 16:31:03 UTC

Nooooooooooo, probably not the world's best plan.