Giraffe Call: Spooks, Creeps, Ghosts, and Ghouls

The call for prompts is now Closed!!

open! For the next 24 hours Until I write all the current prompts, I will taking your prompts on the theme of Spooks and Creeps, Ghosts and Ghouls.

I will write (over the next week) at least one microfic (150-300 words) to each prompter. If you donate, I will write to all of your prompts, and write at last 500 additional words for each $5 you donate, to the prompt(s) of your choice.

In addition to the donation incentives below, I have two new incentives:

For every linkback I receive, I will post another 50 words on a story (See the poll for setting here.

I will write, for the story with the most commenters by Friday morning, a piece about that setting.

And, of course, donations are always well-received:

If I reach $35 in donations, I will post an additional 1000-2000-word fic on the subject of the audience's choice. Reached!

If I reach $65, I will write at least 2 microfics for everyone, whether or not they donated. Reached! Add a second prompt if you haven't already!!

If I reach $95, I will write to every prompt I get in the next 24 hours - if something truly bugs me, I'll ask you to re-prompt (or a third prompt to each prompter). At this point, please allow up to 2 weeks for the writing to be completed. REACHED!!!

If I reach $120, I will record a podcast of an audience-choice story and post it for everyone to read. Also, everyone who tipped will get double wordcount.

If I reach $150, I will release an e-book of all of the fiction written to this call and the last one. At this point, please allow up to 4 weeks for the writing to be completed.

I'm still saving up for the giraffe carpet, which will be installed the first week of October November (still can't find a plumber)!

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Giraffe Call Story - Ninja Kitty (Tir na Cali catpeople)

For ankewehner's prompt.

Tir na Cali, catpeople. Cali has a landing page here (or on LJ)

Commenters: 10


"I don't mean to sneak up on people, I just forget to make a sound sometimes."

Cob looked at Lea, her ears raked back, her tail limp, everything in her body language saying "I'm cute, please don't hurt me," and sighed. This adorable little kitty had been trained in combat since she was old enough to walk. The mods she'd inherited from her parents had given her sharp teeth and sharper claws, and, whether it was nature or nurture that had made her predatory, she had turned out bloodthirsty either way.

"Lea," he said patiently. "That's a very good skill to have when you're in the field." If she was ever sent into the field. For all the training, he wasn't sure the Agency would ever use their hybrid cat-people for their ostensible purpose. ( Read more... )

Giraffe Call Story: Monster, Addergoole 'verse

For cluudle's prompt.

Faerie Apoc, Addergoole - landing page here (or on LJ)

This happens before the storyline of Addergoole; for reference, see this chapter

Commenters: 2

Badrick died.

He died like he had in his dreams, bloody and violently. They pulled him apart, the mob, and, although the details were different, the pain was the same. The shouting was the same. The blood splattering everywhere, his blood, his entrails, his life.

"Why?" he managed, before the farmer hit him in the throat with the pitchfork. He knew why, deep in his cold heart. Monster, they'd screamed. Monster, beast, demon. Demon, they shouted, as the pitchfork pierced his heart.
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Memories - for the Giraffe Call for Prompts - #Addergoole

For rix_scaedu's prompt.

Faerie Apoc, Addergoole - landing page here (or on LJ)

This happens after the storyline of Addergoole; for reference, see this guest story

Commenters: 2

It had never ceased to plague him. His memories of death and dying were picture-perfect, dozens of deaths, at least, some of them in worlds that had made Professor Valerian frown and Professor Pelletier twitch when he described them (which was, of course, half of why he described them). But his memories of what was, in theory, his current life, were either non-existant or fuzzy. Even large parts of his time at Addergoole were a blur.

He worked as a mechanic, because he was good at it, because he didn't have to remember much from day to day (the skills didn't go, just the people, and the events), and because it paid well. He paid a couple former Students of his Former( Read more... )

The Grey Line - Unicorn/Factory - for the Giraffe Call

For ysabetwordsmith's prompt.

Unicorn/Factory- landing page here (or on LJ)

This happens after Preconceptions.

Commenters: 7

"I'm sorry, that's an Administrator-level decision."

"Well, we have an Administrator again, don't we? Let me talk to him, please?" The woman, pinch-faced and exhausted, looked desperate. Antheri did his best I'm-so-sorry face and shook his head woefully at her over his steepled fingers.

"Administrator Giulian has gone out for a walk, I'm afraid."
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Rude Roommates - Stranded World/Autumn - Giraffe Call for Prompts

For wyld_dandelyon's prompt.

Stranded World and Autumn, though I don't know just when. Stranded has a landing page - here (or on LJ)

Commenters: 7

"No, I don't mean walking through a ghost will give you a chill, or take ten years off your life, or any of that sort of nonsense. I mean it's rude." Autumn pursed her lips at the difficult man who was, of all things, arguing with her about the paranormal while trying to haggle her down on a particularly complex original piece of art. A charmed piece, at that, which suggested to her that he knew more than he was saying about both the art and the paranormal.

"Rude?" He raised an eyebrow in what had to be a studied expression of disdain. "You're talking about being rude to the dead?"

And now she had him. She smirked at him, and set aside the artwork, which would find its proper home in due time. "Well, sir, that's a common thread throughout many cultures, isn't it? It's certainly considered rude to 'speak ill of the dead,' for one; it's considered proper to honor a dying person's wishes, and we pay homage to the dead in their cemeteries, do we not?"
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Where have all the ... zombies... gone? Dragons Next Door, for the Giraffe Call

For meeksp's prompt.

Dragons Next Door Verse. DND has a landing page - here (or on LJ)

This was in part prompted by this story, where the elkin first appear, from the Gender-Funky Call for Prompts.

Commenters: 6

"Ever find it weird that we don't have vampires?"

This, I reminded myself, was what happened when Jin helped in the kitchen. But making tomato sauce was a long and tedious process, and the garden had been very prosperous this year, my younger two were still too small to be much help, and Sage had a bad habit of opening up the black jars into the sauce, Rule Two or not (It makes very good sauce, I'll admit, but what it did to my mother-in-law that one time, I'll be making up to her for decades).( Read more... )