Teaching for the Future, a story for the Giraffe Call

To ellenmillion's prompt.

The apocalypse was the last thing I was expecting when I went back to school.

Let's be honest, I really wasn't expecting much of anything except an escape from reality.

I liked being a student. I was good at it, I enjoyed it, and, unlike the work world, it enjoyed me back. So, when I got sick of grunt jobs, miserably low-paying crap, and all the bullshit that went along with the Real World, I went back to college. No better way to get out of planning for the future, right?

You'd think that being a Perpetual Student would have ill-prepared me for the apocalypse, but, as it turned out, you'd be wrong. I like learning, too, you see. And classes only fill so much of your time. And college campuses are full of people who like to teach you things.

All of which combined to turn me into sort of a post-apocalyptic Jane of All Trades.
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Lab Rat, a story of Tir na Cali for the Giraffe Call (@lilfluff)

For lilfluff's prompt.

Tir na Cali has a landing page here.

"Engage in some scientific experimentation," the Agency guy had said. "Earn your freedom," they'd said. "Just two years in our scientific facility, and you can go free," they'd promised.

They's strapped Robert and Eric to tables, at which point they'd both started complaining.

"This isn't what we meant by 'experimentation.'"

"Weren't we supposed to be lab assistants?"

"Lab assistants! We're supposed to be helping you guys!"
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Falling, a story for the Giraffe Call

For kelkyag's prompt

I remember falling.

They'll tell you I can't have possibly remembered anything. They'll tell you that I was too young.

They'll tell you there wasn't any falling involved. It was a one-story house, and the windows were low to the ground.

But then again, how did a 2-year-old survive when nobody else did?

I've never wondered.
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Mini Giraffe Calls Day Two

Yesterday's Theme was Transitions, and a little over an hour, I received five prompts:


Falling (LJ) (misc. May be Fairy Town)
Lab Rats (DW) Tír na Cali
Strange Favors (LJ) - from the December Giraffe Call, Addergoole Yr16 (this one doesn't count, but I wrote it in the last day)
Teaching for the Future (LJ) - unknown Apoc 'verse
Transfer of Power (DW) Addergoole: the next Generation
Into the Doorway (LJ) - Facets of Dusk

edited to add: An An Unnamed fragment


The last Giraffe Call of this month will be up in about half an hour! Stay Tuned!

Giraffe Mini-Call Three: 7 Deadly Sins

Today's Giraffe Call Theme is 7 Deadly Sins

The Call for Prompts is now Open, and will remain so for about an hour!

The call is "closed," but the first commenter each in DW and LJ after this point can sneak in a prompt! (after me on LJ, after Clare on DW)

Leave one or many prompts, and I will write (over the next week) at least one microfic (150-500 words) to each prompter (prompts may be combined)

Prompts can be related to one of my extant settings (See my landing page-landing page) or they can be for something completely different.

Prompting is free! But Donations are always welcome.

For each $5 you donate, I will write an additional 500 words to the prompt(s) of your choice.

If I get two new prompters or one new donator, I will write a setting piece (setting chosen by poll) explaining something about the prompts.

Because this is a mini-Call, there will be mini-perks!

* For every $15 donated, one prompter chosen at random will get an extra fic written - Got to two!
* For every $30 donated, one random prompter will get a 500-word continuation. - Got to one!
* Every-$60 level open for suggestions!!

Incentives will carry over the three mini-calls in January.

Words

500 $5.00 USD 750 $7.50 USD 1000 $10.00 USD 1250 $12.50 USD 1500 $15.00 USD 1750 $17.50 USD 2000 $20.00 USD

The Second Restriction, a story of the Giraffe Call (@rix_Scaedu)

For rix_scaedu's prompt.

Thanks to @Skysailor99 for the country & god names.


"There's a problem with the second restriction."

The country of Foros had a lot of gods, and, like any good nation with a lot of gods, it had a lot of priests.

Several dozen of them were, at the moment, staring at their holiest of holy oracles.

The oracles were not supposed to say things like that. They weren't, for one things, supposed to be capable of that much coherence. The ones who could hear the god Eralon - or any of the gods, but Eralon liked to talk the most - they tended to go mad very quickly. And the rest could be induced to simulate madness with the right smoke.
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Eralon Explains