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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 envelope that could easily fit in Melody's palm if she were allowed to hold it. It also came with a small book of instructions that Papa read out loud before placing it in the gift space.

"Don't you go messing with it, lovey," Dad insisted. "It's for the good spirits of the house, so they can feel better."

"It's medicine," Melody told herself and anyone that went near it. "It's for the good folk and you never play with medicine." She didn't need to guard it for long. The envelope and its contents were gone by the next day.

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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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Monday, Overprepared?

Apparently, yesterday was the hottest September day on record, here in Sunny Queensland. It was PERISHING hot in the nerd cave. And since I don't want to do that again, my PLN runs thusly:

  • Wake up early [today was 1AM]
  • Do my work during the cool hours
  • Sleep off the hot hours
  • Lather, rinse, repeat
  • Until we get some variant of atmosphere control in the nerd cave.

I foresee an absolutely miserable summer for myself, but at least I shall be able

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Challenge #04998-M249: Heart of the Hearth

On a cold, rainy, night, it's very peaceful to sit by the fire listening to the rain drum the roof, while your cat purrs contentedly in your lap. -- BKF

The weather outside was truly frightful. Cold rain that was almost sleeting. Blustery winds that turned said rain in varying slants that would render umbrellas nigh to useless.

A perfect evening for relaxing indoors.

Arelgi had set up a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace and, with dinner in her

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Other Nonsense

This week is the last week that my writing is paying the bills. Beloved and the others have that week to figure out finances. There shall be much ado about looking for work amongst the housemates. Or otherwise helping to pay the bills.

We will figure it out and keep the roof over our heads.

There may be a need for austerity for a bit, but we will manage. We have managed before. We can manage again.

Some of that management has

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Challenge #04997-M248: Bred For Business

The crew of the research vessel learns from the human how to train canines properly so the animals can help carry light, for the animals, loads, and help protect the crew when the human is unable to. -- BKF

[AN: Surprise, I know jack shit about dog training! Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt]

In centuries past, on a Deathworld appropriately named Terra, the Humans looked at the wolf and said something like, "That looks friend-shaped." The descendants of those wolves were

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Saturday, Promptcast, Patreon, and Organisation

I got the Patreon stuff posted! I wrote a thing for Weird Writer Wednesday! And that's why I'm writing this [and my subsequent story] in the afternoon.

I pln to get that tale done, eat some ice cream, and have time for entertainment. Read: Minecraft or BG3.

I'm still figuring out the new routine, but I will get there. Eventually.

Speaking of, I'd best get there with some fresh free fiction for y'all.

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Challenge #04996-M247: Informal Test

They had wooden knives with red dye, and were very stealthy on their feet. They came silently at the hellkin, but not to kill. This was merely a test of skill. -- BKF

Of all the truths known to the Martialist community, one is whispered amongst students: Only a Master can beat a Master.

It had rustled its way through the student accommodations in Hidden Cloud on the day that a seventeen-year-old Hellkin had defeated Master Bai in a duel. For weeks,

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Friday, Teh PLN

[To the tune of We're Off To See The Wizard] I'm off to see the vampires, to go get some samples of blood..

Fed self and felines, had breakfast. Today, after my lovelies get back from whatnot and I finish my breakfast... I am thence off.

When I come back, I am icing my stupid fucking ankle whilst working on my silly darn book cover for the thing I wrote LAST YEAR.

It's a bit procrastinate-y around here. NOT helped by the

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Challenge #04995-M246: Herd of Ranching?

Some Alliance members want to experience what it's like on a ranch. Riding, herding, and the foods that are enjoyed there. -- BKF

[AN: Farming doesn't have to be a tourist activity, no matter how advanced the civilisation]

It's not that cattle farming is extinct. It's just that tube-grown meat is cheaper and more economical in space stations and long-haul vessels. Since most of Alliance interactions occur in those environments, it's simple to presume that cattle farming is a bygone art.

Nothing

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Thursday, Shopping and a New Schedule

Obviously, there has to be a new regime. A new day for my Patreons. A new schedule for Weird Writer Wednesday. Basically, because I don't have the time schedules I used to.

So.

My pln for Weird Writer Wednesday is to write it ahead of time and press the Publish button on Wednesday.

I'll likely end up doing that on the same day I put the Patreon stuff to post. Which, given that everyone has money on Wednesday [as far as I

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Challenge #04994-M245: Complex Organic Processes

You have the answers you were seeking, but can you handle what you have learned? -- BKF

The pursuit of ethical food sources has to stop somewhere. There is a line that should not be crossed, no matter what. Unfortunately, Humans do not like lines, drawn in sand or otherwise. A barrier that must not be crossed is a challenge to their egos, or something of the sort.

So, when Humanity was told that there was no purely ethical nourishment, they established

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