Summary of... um, until I get sick of summarizing

(I have GOT to get better at doing these weekly!)

Personal life: I did some thinking
about my thoughts on gender (LJ Link)
and bought some carpet (LJ Link) (not the giraffes)
and had an instant karma moment of awesome (LJ Link

I asked you some questions:
Money in the Jar-O (LJ Link)
Worldbuilding - where to put the nails? (LJ Link)
What do you want for donor perks?! (LJ Link)

And asked for money:
My Donor landing page is here (and on LJ)
Stories for Sponsorship are here (LJ Link)

Addergoole Year 9 got some more fiction:
Arguments with Oneself (LJ Link) (Stay tuned for the continuation when LJ is back up!)
Witness (LJ Link)

As did Addergoole Post-Apoc:
Devil's in the Details (LJ Link)
Road Trip (LJ Link)

So did Reiassan:
Wedding Plans (LJ Link)

The Tír na Cali Slave School got another entry
(LJ Link)

And Dragons:
Sharing Stories (LJ Link) (this is part of the meeks/aldersprig creative culture exchange ;-)


Speaking of meeks, she posted an updated sketch (LJ Link) of Shine On, to ysabetwordsmith's poem of the same name

And, for a lot more fic - all the stuff I wrote for the pre-Giraffe-sale prompts! (LJ Link)

For my Cali-Beta Readers: I updated *cough* 4 chapters of Cali:
6 here and here
7 here and here
8 here and here
9 here (LJ down)

Here's the Sunday Fic Meme 6 sentences excerpt of that novel: (LJ Link)

30 Days Second Semester: 2a, Leavetaking, Misc. Space

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "2) write a scene that takes place in a train station."

This seems to go with Missing (LJ Link).

The skies weren’t safe. They hadn’t been for so long, there were adults now who couldn’t imagine airplanes.

The trains weren’t always safe, either, but a one in forty chance of death was still better than a three in four chance. And, while we didn’t need to travel, they did. They needed to reach the few places where they could still punch through the sky.

I held her against me, tracing the small of her back, trying not to see the train pulling into the station. The steam trains had come back, along with so many other things we’d thought we’d left behind, forgotten, or lost.
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