Detention

http://www.lynthornealder.com/2020/05/06/tension/

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It was the sort of thing that people - teachers, specifically, Mrs. Gruble, very specifically - thought was clever. 

Ani and Charlie had never gotten along, not since - well, if Ani was going to put a date on it, or a First Event, it was the second time they met, which would have been the third preschool Ani had gone to, the good one, the one that was fun, the one where Ani fit in.

Until Charlie showed up.

And that - that had been their entire school life.

The Ladies of the Jungle

http://www.lynthornealder.com/2020/05/07/the-ladies-of-the-jungle/

Reegatia's people were all women, or at least they were all ladies. 

It had come about because of a misunderstanding with an explorer who had "discovered" the people that he - the explorer was a he, at least - had called The Ladies of the Jungle. 

There were three things wrong with that, possibly 5, and it was a title only 5 words long in the Imperial language, one in the explorer's native tongue - Pialejiarnna.