Hump Day!

Yesterday was mellow, getting-over-sick and somehow writing 4025 words (woo).

We made "pumpkin" "pie" for the first time this season, one of my favorite desserts.

(make pie custard with butternut puree, then pour into a casserole sans crust and bake. Nom! Also much lower-calorie that way).

We bought a nice Dremel for T. to do some work with, and he enjoyed making wood chips all over the living room.

(The situation: the "card room" is a small former-porch-maybe, 8'x8', off the living room, next to the bedroom. Its floor is 4" higher than the living room, and will hopefully be lowered next year. Its ceiling was just a scoootch lower than the living room's, the difference covered by a styrofoam wood beam. We removed the beam to find that someone had cut off the wall studs about 1" lower than the ceiling. So to cover the hole smoothly, we needed to saw off these Very Very Firm Studs. hence, tiny Dremel saw!)

(Also? Tiny Dremel saws are awesome.)

((Also? I finally have a Dremel and now I don't want vampire fangs O_O))

I posted 100 more words on the linkback incentive (LJ) for ysabetwordsmith's signal boost, but I have a feeling I'm missing some. 550 words = 11 linkbacks.

And, since the prompts stay open until I write the last prompt, I've still got two to go!

On LJ - http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/316593.html
and on DW - http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/170868.html

Dwimors, a story of Dragons Next Door for the Giraffe Call

For meeks's prompt.

This is in the Dragons Next Door setting, which has a landing page here (and on LJ).

It is part of the series that includes:
Over the Wall (LJ Link),
The Black Tower (LJ Link,
The Pumpkin (LJ Link,
Skeletons (LJ)
and
Rule Three (DW)


“A lovely story.” Zizny watched me with one broad eye. “And your Sage seems like a very reasonable man, even when he was still a juvenile.”

“Very reasonable,” I agreed. “He’s a good man, my Sage.”
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Budding, a story of the Fae Apoc Internment Camp, for the Giraffe Call

For kc_obrien's prompt.

This is in the Fae Apoc Setting, which has a landing page here (and on LJ).

The internment camp came into existence in
Discovery Channel, was expanded in
Invisibles; Daryl and his family were introduced in
The Pay Was Good (LJ).


One thing Dylan was glad for, when they’d moved into the internment camp they were supposed to be guarding and started guarding it against intruders instead of escapes, when they’d become, more or less, farmers and homesteaders, a small community against the outside world, when they’d finally armed the fae because, really, nothing but manners was stopping them from taking the weapons anyway – one thing he was glad for, when it was all said and done, was that his babies would not be old enough to date for many years, enough years that the war would, god-in-heaven willing, be done by then.
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Othel, a story for the Giraffe Call

This is to the_vulture's prompt "Othel," and it's a little weird. As I looked at the rune Othel, I thought of a story, coming up and down over generations. It didn't end up quite like what I'd first pictured, but it helps if you think of this story as 6 lines, with two junctures (there should have been four, as I look at it, but the shorter junctures are the top and middle points); the story starts at bottom left and follows the rune around to the bottom right.

Learning Memories
The farmhouse where her grandfather had been born, where her mother had grown up, was bustling with family and rocking with laughter. Feather was in the midst of it, sitting on her grandmother’s lap, listening to her uncle’s stories, “…and then the damn cow walked, backwards, all the way out.”

Inheriting a Place
Feather held her grandmother’s glass bluebird. Not a lap, not a hug, or a story. But grandma had loved it, and she could hold it.
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