Elisian influence

[truepenny]

elisem has a post collecting the dragon story cycle that matociquala and I seem to be writing about/with Elise's dragon-titled jewelry. yuki_onna has also posted today about a piece of Elise's jewelry, in this case octopedal rather than draconic. And I'm posting a list of all the stories I have written and am writing for Elise's jewelry:

PUBLISHED

• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"
  
• "Sidhe Tigers"
  
• "Wait for Me" ("Why Do You Linger?")
  
• "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" ("Mermaids of the Old West")
  
• "Draco campestris"
  
• "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" ("Why Do You Linger?")
  
• "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day"
  
• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home"
  
• "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow"
  
• "Rhino Carries the Moon"
  
• "After the Dragon" ("Healing Is Not About Pretty" and "After the Dragon, She Learned To Love Her Body")

IN PRESS

• "Ashes, Ashes" ("Why Do You Linger?")
  
• "Why Do You Linger?"
  
• The Goblin Emperor ("Engineering for Elves")

IN PROGRESS

• "The Skyscrapers of Bianch'Elen" ("Spider's Rose")
  
• Dark Sister ("Spider's Rose")
  
• the Booth story about the electric chair ("Healing Is Not About Pretty")
  
• the walking-back-from-Mordor novel ("Healing Is Not About Pretty")
  
• The Sidhetown Tigers ("Sidhe Tigers," "Eating the Dark Flower")
  
• "Dragons of Earth and Sky"
  
• "Yes, No, Always, Never"

PHOTO REFERENCES

• "Draco campestris"
  
• "Healing Is Not About Pretty"
  
• "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day"
  
• "Rhino Carries the Moon"
  
• "Sidhe Tigers"
  
• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home"
  
• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"
  
• "Why Do You Linger?"
  
  

Would I still be writing short stories and novels if I'd never met Elise? Yes, of course. But these stories would never have been written. And my life would be immesurably poorer.

Comments

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I was wearing the earrings "One Drop Will Let You Cross Over" when we met Charlie's birth parents and were chosen by them to adopt him. Crossing over, big time. I had only met Elise in RL a few days before that, but since that was at her "Glass Bead Games" party I could see that her art had huge magic in it, and I was determined to carry that magic with me during the most important conversation of my life. I wore them every day after that until we brought Charlie home, and they're still my favorite shinies.

So, no stories (yet), but so much joy.

[pitselly.livejournal.com]

elisem is really talented with titles. There should be some kind of write-a-thon; it'd be really cool to see a lot of different takes on the same title.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Try the Nine Things About Oracles (http://elisem.livejournal.com/1437056.html) cycle.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Elise is a rare treasure.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Again, HELL, yeah! I treasure her stuff that I have.