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“A Meeting and an Education” posted on Patreon

Mar31

A Meeting and an Education, the story of Zizny & Cxaidin meeting, has been posted on Patreon, free for everyone to read.

The hunters had been trying the mountain again and so sentries were being posted. Zizny was young and junior and so had pulled more than a fair share of sentry duty, but tek found that it was not so burdensome as all that. For one, tek generally got to spend most of the day lounging in the sun, watching the birds fly by. For another, tek occasionally got a chance to meet interesting beings.

read on!

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Whispers

Mar30

I’d gotten used to my children bringing home friends by the time Jin was in high school. Junie was a little socialite, even in kindergarten, but Jin – Jin was a one-child rescue wagon. He brought home stray dogs, stray erbiss, lost pixies – his entire 7th grade year had been devoted to creating an elaborate dollhouse for a family of Tinies…

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World/Character-Building Fun Prompt Call – Dragons Next Door, Addergoole/Doomsday, Reiassan/Edally

Mar28

I had so much fun writing the four world/character/storybuilding stories yesterday that I want to do more! 🙂

But I’m still really busy with Sekret Projeckt. 🙁

So! No promises I’ll get to any of these, much less all of them, but here goes:

For Addergoole/Doomsday/FaeApoc, Dragons Next Door, or Reiassan/Edally, ask me any world/character building question that can be answered in fiction form.

For example: How did Akatil end up at Addergoole (I’ve already answered that one, short form), Where did Aud go to school? (another one already answered ;-)… I think you get the idea.

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International Women’s Day: Junie

Mar9

This is an answer to [personal profile] kelkyag‘s question asked here for International Women’s Day: “What does Junie want to do when she grows up? (At any value of ‘now’ you feel like writing about.)”

Junie as a child is very torn about what she wants to be when she grows up. She sometimes wants to be a ballerina, sometimes an ambassador to one of the far-flung nonhuman settlements. Sometimes she wants to do her mother’s job, and act as a cultural translator; sometimes she wants to be a wizard like her father (and like her brother). For a week, she wanted to be a dragon, until she realized that was not biologically possible. As of “now,” being the kidnapping-Junie storyline, she wants to be a lawyer and an FBI agent.

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The Annual Sacrifice, a story of Dragons Next Door (or at least a teaser)(@anke)

Dec5

As the title said, this came out more as a teaser than a story.

But I can always be enticed to write more! (Commission, sweet-talking, reviews…)

I asked for Non-Addergoole Prompts here; this is to [personal profile] clare_dragonfly‘s question and [personal profile] anke‘s request.

Dragons Next Door has a landing page here.

“I see you are participating in the annual sacrifice of a tree.” Zizny puffed smoke at me over the wall between our properties.

It might have been unusual to some to have a dragon talking over the fence at one, as it were, but after the last neighbors – the ogres – I was more than willing to take the far-more-polite and far-less-smelly Smiths.

But I confess, as used to Zizny and thez* ways as I was, I still stiffened. “We don’t use dryad trees.” It had been done, once upon a time, sometimes by the ignorant and sometimes by the cruel. But this pine tree had never been anything but a pine tree. “We’re not really… Christian, hard to be. But with Junie’s friends, it’s easier to just celebrate the holiday…”

The dragon next door puffed another harmless steam-cloud at me. “You are, I believe, under a great deal of stress right now.”

“I…” I realized Zizny was, in a draconic manner, laughing at me. “Yeah. Yes, I have been. You were teasing me. I admit, I did not know that dragons teased.”

“You are very clever about races not your own, Audrey. But you do not know everything.” Zizny dropped-jaw in a way I had learned was the draconic version of a human smile.

I smiled back, cautiously. “Well, then. What do dragons do for the winter holidays?”

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Biting the Foot, a drabble of Dragons next Door for the Random Bingo Card

Mar12

To [personal profile] kelkyag‘s prompt to my other bingo call.

This fills the square “Biting the Foot,” and references the dragons’ pet Tay-tay, described here

Some people’s neighbors had dogs.

Some people had people for neighbors, or at least humans.

Carl didn’t know why his wife had insisted on moving to Smokey Knoll, or why they’d bought the house across from the dragons (except that the only other humans lived nearby), but he knew that the dragons had a pet, an erbiss, a blue-green dog-lizard thing.

And the erbiss had grabbed on to the foot of Carl’s friend Don, and would not let go or be removed.

And the damn human neighbors were laughing.

“They can sense malice, you know.”

Some people had human neighbors.

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