July Linkback, Donor, Prompter story

This is the linkback incentive story for the July Giraffe Call.

Bowen et al are characters in Addergoole.

Bowen's Change (and his father's) are as sheep.

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Summer after Year Five

Bowen had been home for a week when his cy'ree showed up.

It hadn't been a comfortable week, all things considered. His father had been - well, Dad. The way Dad always was, kind of sheepish.

Sheepish. Ha. He'd yelled that at him, his second night home. Bowen had been yelling a lot, since he got home. "How can you just go along with what you're told? How can you be such a goddamned part of the herd?"

And all Dad had managed was "we are what's in our nature."

Which was a pile of crap. Bowen had been mutilated by a rabbit. But he wasn't going to tell his father that. Instead, he'd shouted at him.

"Be a goddamned ram, then. Grow a pair."

They hadn't talked much since then. It was going to be a long summer if it kept on like this.
And then the doorbell rang.

At first, Bowen was afraid it was his friends from high school. He almost didn't answer the door; he didn't have anything to say to those guys. He couldn't even begin to talk about school, and he wasn't sure he wanted to talk to those morons anyway.

But the doorbell rang again, and again, like someone was mashing on the button. Grumbling, fantasising about punching Jack or Eddie or Judy or whoever it was until they stopped ringing the damn doorbell, Bowen hauled himself out of his chair and yanked the door open. "What do you... oh. It's you. Ah."
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Countdown to Addergoole Year 9: Porter

52 46 Days To 52 Weeks

For the 52 days leading up to the 52 weeks of Addergoole: Year 9, I will be posting something Addergoole-related every day.

Today I present to you Porter!

Arts by Inventrix and Arts by Anke

Porter is a cheerful, friendly guy with curly hair, a broad smile, and a fondness for noir detective movies. In his second year at Addergoole now, he sports a Siberian tiger Change that leaves his hair and face striped and gives him the ears and tail of said tiger.

Porter originally appeared in Frying Pans, Etc..

And, today, if you would like to ask Porter any question, at any point up to the end of Frying Pans, Etc., feel free!

incentive Stories updated

June Linkback
Incentive Story: East to the Blue (LJ)
Most Recent Update

July Linkback
Bowen's Summer (Lj)
Most Recent Update

Summer on the half-shell, a story of Stranded World

"Just pose for me, Sum, it'll be fine."

"Pete, no. You don't want me to pose naked. I don't want me to be posted naked all over campus."

"Not naked, then, tastefully draped. Like Venus on the half-shell, we use a long piece of fabric and I paint it as hair, all the way down to your ankles. I've got a few pieces here..." He pulled a long strip of silk, golden yellow, from his box of painting props. "Summer, please? I've been wanting to paint you for ages."

"We've been dating for three months, Petie." She knew she was going to give in. He was doing the puppy-dog eyes thing. She always gave in to the puppy-dog eyes. "You've been wanting to paint me for ages?"

"Longer than we've been dating. Please? I promise nothing bad, nothing you'll be embarrassed for your friends to see."

"I'm not worried about my friends. I'm worried about my brother. And you should be, too."
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