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Challenge #05006-M257: Little Tricks

"The Eater of Socks" Blamed by Sir Terry but who or what steals socks, pens, the thing you had in your hand 5 seconds ago. -- Knitnan

There had been six socks in the washtub when Ygrun started hir laundry. Five remained to hang on the line. The chalk was missing from hir reminder-list slate, and ze swore ze had put it on the shelf by the door. Hir knitting was left on one needle, and the other was gone without a trace. Hir favourite clogs were missing, and they only ever went away in one place. That could only mean one thing.

Ze had angered the Nisse.

Ygrun tried to figure out how ze had done it. Ze kept hir house tidy, and managed it well. Ze was ahead on hir projects and not expecting to run out of time for any of them. They had hardly anything to do.

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Monday, Backup Reads and Time Management

I got a lot of the kudzu in the book cover done. I might have to do some more abstract leaf dots for the distant kudzu climbing up the flatiron building. They need to be tiny-tiny after all. I might also make use of the blur brush.

Time will tell.

Nevertheless, the doodling-while-listening tactic worked. I have a whole lot of leafy shapes all over my canvas. Yay.

I'll have to do that in other moments where I'm technically prevented from

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Challenge #05005-M256: Handy Gifts

Just what every girl needs! My own tool kit. -- Knitnan

The gift was way too heavy to be a new purse. Too large to be the makeup kit she'd been drooling over. Too small to be any part of a cute new outfit. Which meant that, once again, Dad had no flying clue about her.

Baeronice opened it anyway, and felt her heart sink. Blocky. Utilitarian pouch. Black, hard-wearing fabric often touted by the Survivalist Bros that Dad watched on his

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Sunday, Stream Stuff Sequentius

The Promptcast only has five entries this week [so far] so it's promising to be a short one. There's a possibility that I can 'clear' another chapter rewrite for the new and improved version of A Devil's Tale.

That's version number three for those keeping track.

Version One: Pure fanfic. Getting closure for a game that just... evaporated because Kosh wanted a happy ending.

Version Two: Five GoogDocs and four years.

Hopefully, version three is the one that makes it to the

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Challenge #05004-M255: The Shape of Fear

Sometimes, to change a world and save lives, you only have to LOOK scary. The rest does everything else on its own. -- BKF

The Xenophobia Wars rarely raged. They ebbed and flowed like the tides, if tides could wash randomly through polities at their own whims. The Elves fought the Dragons, D'varuv, Harukh'ai, Drakkonbred, and Dragonkindred alike. They fought the Gobellin, Gnomes, and when there were Humans, they fought the Humans too.

And when the Elves weren't fighting them, they were

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Saturday, Some Semblance of a PLN

Today, I aim to write something for Weird Writer Wednesday, likely about nibbling problems to death. I shall also be working on the daily tale. THEN I shall do something towards my cover art.

I can do this. It's beating the inertia that's the issue.

Maybe that's what I'll write about for this coming Wednesday.

But first, I must get on with the stuff that earns money. Even if it is a small amount of money.

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Challenge #05003-M254: Worthy Becoming

Find out who you are, and then do it on purpose -- Weirdlet

[AN: Hats off and respect to Dolly Parton, who lived by those words and is an example to us all]

There's no record of the first Halfbred. None know who they were, what their ancestry was, or how well they may have lived. Common conjecture posits that it was how Drakkonbred became a species, but some people will theorise anything.

In certain centuries, Halfbred folk were rare. It was

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Friday, Things To Do

My agenda, such that it is:

  • Daily Tale
  • Cataloguing more comics
  • Working on the rewrite of ADT

Maybe, I can catch up on my To-Be-Watched pile, but that's for winding down in the evening.

I should focus on getting that done, but there's anxiety and people needing to talk and all kinds of distractions hither and yon.

I need to stop playing with the Endorphin Machine [my phone] and get on with getting on. I know I can.

Let's go.

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Challenge #05002-M253: Found Wanting

I may not be licensed, but I will hold this child. They're crying, they need help. I don't give a damn about your rules. You're not licensed either, and watching a young child wailing in fear and discomfort without aid is cruel. -- BKF

[AN: I understand the spirit of the prompt, and am writing for that. With reference to https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04984-m235-post-trauma-trauma-comfort ]

Prentice Medik Jarl, do you understand the charges you are answering for today?

I don't, sir.

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Thursday, Shopping, Anxiety, and New Draft

I have commenced rewriting Book One of A Devil's Tale, but I hope the whole process takes less time than four dingdang years.

Some of it is a little touch-up.
Some of it is a complete rewrite.
Some of it is new material.

My characters need space to be three-dimensional. Especially Kosh's crew. So, as I have been joking with the read-through group - we're going to need a bigger book.

It's still going to be a sextology, because I can't think

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Challenge #05001-M252: Circle of Kindness

A part of the boogey's bitterness was the people before, the ones who were driven out and the house slowly fell to state it was in, was they put POISON in the milk. The child had heard that much, and one of the gifts, thanks to her family's help, were little pouches of antidotes and treatments for symptoms that can last ages from such poisonings.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04982-m233-redemption-from-horror -- BKF

The special powder came in a small, waxed paper

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Wednesday, Teh PLN Worked!

I posted my Weird Writer Wednesday first thing! Hooray. Now I can focus on the next thing to write for next week. I've done my Promptcast thing and sent it off! Huzzah. More free time for the fucking multitude of other side projects I have going on.

Whee fun.

October is looming and my cover art is only halfway done. If I actually make time for it, I can get it done. I just can't be too lazy or it looks like

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Challenge #05000-M251: A Fifth of Scheherezade

Wraithvine nearly drowns, is awakened to Chance giving hir CPR and Scramble retrieving hir hat and the group's belongings. Fortunately, save for some food supplies, they lose very little. -- BKF

Thunder in hir ears. Burning lungs in need of air, not the fluid currently invading them. Fading light. A confusion of things in hir sight.

Hir goddess whispered to hir, Not today, my lovely.

Small hands on hir chest. Lips on hirs. Air in hir lungs and the taste of someone

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Tuesday, Milestone and a Dove

Yesterday, Adorable rescued a fledgeling dove from the Magpie Mafia. We think it's a Spotted Dove, but identification is a little difficult. Beloved and Adorable are plotting to take it to the vet's for a patch-up and advice on how to go forward.

Or for a transfer of custody.

Spotted Doves are not pests, they're one of the species that kind of blew in from the island chain to the north. So hopes are good that this little creature can have a

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Challenge #04999-M250: Unappealing Case

A litter of wayward kittens, barely weaned, become very attached to "Dex" following him around trying to get cuddles. -- BKF

There's a certain amount of chaos in every life. For example, his father the King had occasionally had to sit the Blood Throne whilst pulling double duty as his infant daughter's favourite bed. The trick, Dad said, was to carry on as if everything was perfectly normal and to let others turn it into a problem.

"And then," Dad said with

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