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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-23 11:55 am
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This week's prompt is:
rough 🧗‍♂️

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-23 11:20 am
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Crown him with many crowns

Crown him with many crowns,
the Lamb upon his throne.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-23 11:04 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-23 09:19 am

Benefits by Zoë Fairbairns



Mother's Benefits become the means by which British governments provide British women with the same benevolent management Britain once provided to India, Ireland, and Africa.

Benefits by Zoë Fairbairns
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-22 09:13 am

Books Received, November 15 to November 21, 2025



Three books new to me. All are fantasies, two are series.

Books Received, November 15 to November 21, 2025

Poll #33866 Books Received, November 15 to November 21, 2025
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43


Which of these upcoming books look interesting?

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Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent (March 2026)
4 (9.3%)

Tides of Fortune by Lauryn Hamilton Murray (June 2026)
1 (2.3%)

Everybody’s Perfect by Jo Walton (June 2026)
32 (74.4%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
31 (72.1%)

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-21 11:59 pm

magic here and there

So plugging along on the story, and three characters manifest interests in new magic, which, I abruptly realize, are going to have to have significance.

And indeed some other characters need an interest or they will seem flat. Maybe I can give two of them the same interest.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-21 10:56 pm

If I ever found myself in possession of a vast fortune

I would definitely found an SF magazine.

Most mags struggle with handling submissions but I had a moment of insight: all I need to do is tell writers to send me _good_ stories. Their crap, they can submit elsewhere. Bang! Workload down by 99%.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-21 12:55 pm

Orange

Orange by Ichigo Takano

This is available in five volumes, and also in two omnibus editions (the second included a backstory which I didn't get into), but it reads as one story.

It opens with Naho receiving a letter. It says it's from her future self, that a new boy will arrive in class and sit beside her, and she must not ask him to walk home, because he's no longer with them in the future.

Not knowing what to believe, she joins with her friends in asking

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-21 09:10 am

The Door on the Sea (The Raven and the Eagle, volume 1) by Caskey Russell



A young scholar and his diverse companions are dispatched on an intelligence-gathering mission deep into enemy territory.

The Door on the Sea (The Raven and the Eagle, volume 1) by Caskey Russell
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-20 09:09 am
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The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay



A park guide's life is upended by a pandemic and her charming, idiot son.

The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-19 11:25 pm

juggling threads

A secondary villainess made her move.

I realized I had to go back and set up the scene because this plot thread had gotten underplayed.

sigh
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-19 06:37 pm

Watching The Adventures of Superman

"Could it be that (Superman) hides behind the darkest disguise of all? Could it be that he is a woman?"

"(...) What made you ask that?"

"Because he has compassion. He aids people in trouble. He helps the weak. "

It is possible the bad guy in The Secret of Superman has issues.
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-11-19 05:04 pm
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-19 01:59 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Yeld 2E



This new Yeld 2E Bundle presents the 2024 Second Edition of The Magical Land of Yeld, the all-ages tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Atarashi Games about young heroes (called Friends) finding their way home.

Bundle of Holding: Yeld 2E
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-19 09:09 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-18 09:57 am

The Queen Bee by Randall Garrett



Castaways are trapped in a terrible Randall Garrett story!

The Queen Bee by Randall Garrett
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-18 09:42 am

I know my site is down

Along with a lot of the interwebs...