This has become ridiculous.
Oct. 28th, 2008 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyI am declaring a moratorium: I may not start any more short stories until I've finished at least ONE of these eleven languishing stories:
1. "After the Dragon": After the dragon, she lay in the white on white hospital room and wanted to die.
2. "The Marriage of True Minds": Sanspiro Base is a company town all the way.
3. "The Tale of Two Dead Mice": Once upon a time, there were two dead mice, white and small and sleek.
4. "White Charles": The crate arrived at the Parrington on a Wednesday, but it was Friday before anyone mentioned it to me.
5. "Thirdhop Scarp": The current owner of Thirdhop Scarp claims that the name is a contraction of "third hope," but this is etymologically dubious in the extreme; still improbable but far more likely is the local explanation: that if you fall off the escarpment, you reach the bottom in three hops.
6. "The Second Son": On the twenty-fourth of April, Medraut dreamed of Loheris again.
7. "Under Babylon": Mick Sharpton's howl of outrage--"oh fuck no!"--was clearly audible in the junior agents' office.
8. "The Queen in Winter": There were five queens in the creche. Beulah, Pauline, Camille, Thelma, and Katrina. Beulah was the favorite, and one night after the nurses had gone to bed, the others ganged up on her. There were only four queens after that.
9. "The Queen of Liverpool": The Mistral Freighter D35-692N-C, Queen of Liverpool, had been grounded for thirty years, since the successful implementation of Chen and Tiedemann's q-curve drive had made her and all her sisters obsolete.
10. "(Un)fallen": The pain is intense, sharp, and localizes itself gradually, as Vij comes closer to consciousness, into a throbbing knot on the back of ser skull, just behind ser left ear. Se reaches to touch it, groans as that wakes a whole new set of pains through ser left shoulder and arm, and only then wonders why se is corporeal at all.
11. "Hollywood After Dark: A Still Life with Wolves": Wolves prowl the Sunset Strip. You can tell them by the way their eyes reflect the street lights.
1. "After the Dragon": After the dragon, she lay in the white on white hospital room and wanted to die.
2. "The Marriage of True Minds": Sanspiro Base is a company town all the way.
3. "The Tale of Two Dead Mice": Once upon a time, there were two dead mice, white and small and sleek.
4. "White Charles": The crate arrived at the Parrington on a Wednesday, but it was Friday before anyone mentioned it to me.
5. "Thirdhop Scarp": The current owner of Thirdhop Scarp claims that the name is a contraction of "third hope," but this is etymologically dubious in the extreme; still improbable but far more likely is the local explanation: that if you fall off the escarpment, you reach the bottom in three hops.
6. "The Second Son": On the twenty-fourth of April, Medraut dreamed of Loheris again.
7. "Under Babylon": Mick Sharpton's howl of outrage--"oh fuck no!"--was clearly audible in the junior agents' office.
8. "The Queen in Winter": There were five queens in the creche. Beulah, Pauline, Camille, Thelma, and Katrina. Beulah was the favorite, and one night after the nurses had gone to bed, the others ganged up on her. There were only four queens after that.
9. "The Queen of Liverpool": The Mistral Freighter D35-692N-C, Queen of Liverpool, had been grounded for thirty years, since the successful implementation of Chen and Tiedemann's q-curve drive had made her and all her sisters obsolete.
10. "(Un)fallen": The pain is intense, sharp, and localizes itself gradually, as Vij comes closer to consciousness, into a throbbing knot on the back of ser skull, just behind ser left ear. Se reaches to touch it, groans as that wakes a whole new set of pains through ser left shoulder and arm, and only then wonders why se is corporeal at all.
11. "Hollywood After Dark: A Still Life with Wolves": Wolves prowl the Sunset Strip. You can tell them by the way their eyes reflect the street lights.
