This meme looks like too much fun not to do...

[ashnistrike]

I'm sitting in a hostel in Minneapolis, feeling slightly at loose ends while I wait for this conference to kick into gear.  So, meme.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you one sentence from that story.

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[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Space vikings versus tank ninjas.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Olaf sucked a swig of mead through his helmet straw, considering the twisted, almost invisible wreckage floating in the asteroid field--and wondering if it were appropriate to pour a libation for an enemy that could not drink.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

RAH!

[almeda.livejournal.com]

WHERE IS MY LIKE BUTTON!?!11!!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The one with the silent aliens and the ropes course.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

The first time through the course, you thought that the human student would be an excellent addition to your team. However, you discovered quickly that while his communicative vibrations are usable even with all four limbs latched around the ladder bridge, he can miss entire conversations with the rest of the team if he flicks his eyes in the wrong direction. Now you pick the best listeners: the ones whose eye-rings are ever-shifting, ever-watchful, who can instantly discern your plans from the shiver of a tail or the twitch of a finger.

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Toaster

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

In May 2019, R26 was the first toaster permitted to address the symposium.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

The one where the aliens are all excited that we can see colours.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

They use machines to distinguish magenta and scarlet, turquoise and indigo, and sometimes I think their measurements tell them more about those colors than we'll ever know. But it doesn't stop them from asking, every time we have contact: what does it look like? Sometimes I think--sometimes I worry--that they don't like our answers.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

The one where the cats get their wings for the first time.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Fluffy had hers from a cardinal. They looked improbably small, sleek and scarlet against her grey and white fur. But there she was, experimenting with fluttering hops along the porch rail, avian blood still drying on her flanks.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Wow. The harvesting angle wasn't one I had thought of! That's got a wonderful dark fairytale magic to it.

Thank you!

[dbang.livejournal.com]

How about that one with the kid everything thinks is autistic but it turns out to be a superpower to communicate across dimensions. (You ARE working on my kid's biography, right?)

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I will happily write the sentence, but you and/or your son should definitely read Diane Duane's A Wizard Alone. Which is something like the 9th book in the Young Wizard's series, but stands on its own and has that as a major plot element.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

really? Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to check it out.

I'm pretty convinced that autism is actually a super power in disguise, and the rest of the world just hasn't figured out what the super power IS yet because it mostly isn't used yet.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Probably a suite of them.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

The map makes perfect sense and always has, but every new version is drawn with more details, annotated with more explicit directions, in the hope that it will finally be used.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

The one where the womens' studies professor interviews Nyarlathotep.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Unless you've actually written that.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

No. Although now that you ask, I'm hard pressed to say why not.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

With a thousand young, there was never any chance of "having it all." Even when it comes to consuming souls, I've always had to put them first.

Ambitions? I always did like those sunken islands, or the cities buried under glaciers. Just a little place I could call my own.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

You mean like that one with the cat and the weird high-magic system involving crystals and weird mystical laser beams? I can never remember what that one's called. :->

(in other news, one of the questions on the Lady Mondegreen DVD-interview that I wasn't expecting was, "What is your favorite Lady Mondegreen memory from an alternate universe?")

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Slightly delayed, my apologies.


I was never able to get the summoning ritual to work right until the day that Lady Lynx knocked the laser out of true. Even then, it took me three days to figure it out. It isn't actually all that obvious when a six-month-old kitten gets possessed by a lesser imp.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

There was that one with the tiny velociraptors being walked on leashes...

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Your velociraptors are much delayed, but seem to have ended up in the actual Current Project:


“Oh, god,” said Jon. “Four-Q’s a long way down, isn’t it?” Two or three ordinary stories separated each balcony from the next, and from this height the spiral stairways looked more narrow and crowded than ever.

“Fourteen stories,” said Grettie with a smirk. A man brushed past us, leading five… something… on leashes. I suspected them of being purchases from the livestock market, which I could still smell on the draft from the passage behind us. They looked like dove-sized birds, feathered brown and white and tan like turkeys, but they had heavily muscled arms in place of wings, ending in vicious talons. Two had bright blue crests and hissed at everyone who came within two feet; the crestless three seemed more mellow. Their owner led them into the nearest stairwell. They hopped down behind him, pausing to peer between the fleur-de-lises of the ironwork bannister.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

*is impressed*

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

And I am appreciative, as I was in desperate need of Cool Stuff to put on the staircase.