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Comments are slowly trickling in for one of my treat stories. And all four of the people familiar with the canon for the other one liked it. And my original recipient really, really, sincerely loved the story I wrote her, even though almost no one else seems to have read it (or possibly almost no one else liked it.) Hopefully some of you will read it after the reveal!
On to the fantastic stories other people wrote!
Little Settlement on the Moon. Pa takes the Ingalls family to the moon. Short and adorable.
A quite brilliant and extremely well-written Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead story, as funny and disquieting as the original. The themes, the phrases, and the sense of existential dread double and redouble like echoes in an empty room: fate, reflection and inflection, the question game, the coin toss, the uncertainty of identity and even what comes out of an espresso machine.Metamorphosis.
A lot of people seem to think the fantasy at the heart of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong - the abused and unappreciated girl who escapes into a place where she is loved and valued - is immature wish-fulfillment. But it's also the story of quite a few people's lives. In Lend Song A Sweeter Grace, Menolly returns to Half-Circle Sea Hold for a story sweet and bitter as family, as revenge.
The Greatest Potter in Emelan. If you can get past the odd culture clash in the first sentence, this is a great story. It's based on Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic/Circle Opens series about craft mages. It's probably comprehensible if you don't know the series, and not really spoilery because you won't have the context for the spoilery bits. One of the things I love about these novels is Pierce's ability to show us how an ordinary life and ordinary moments can also be extraordinary. The eponymous potter, whose plain clay pots never break, sums up the heart of the entire series.
A Storybook Story, a short coda to one of my favorite movies of all time, The Princess Bride, made me laugh repeatedly and aloud. Completely in the spirit of the movie.
Chimes at Midnight recasts Hal and Hotspur as wounded veterans of WWI, dreaming of Agincourt, remembering Loos. I don't think you need to be familiar with the play to read this.
In Formosi Pueri, a perfect Patrick O'Brien pastiche, Stephen has a serious mission, and some of Jack's lieutenants have a rather less serious one. Very funny in the O'Brien style, with a neat cameo from a historical personage.
On to the fantastic stories other people wrote!
Little Settlement on the Moon. Pa takes the Ingalls family to the moon. Short and adorable.
A quite brilliant and extremely well-written Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead story, as funny and disquieting as the original. The themes, the phrases, and the sense of existential dread double and redouble like echoes in an empty room: fate, reflection and inflection, the question game, the coin toss, the uncertainty of identity and even what comes out of an espresso machine.Metamorphosis.
A lot of people seem to think the fantasy at the heart of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong - the abused and unappreciated girl who escapes into a place where she is loved and valued - is immature wish-fulfillment. But it's also the story of quite a few people's lives. In Lend Song A Sweeter Grace, Menolly returns to Half-Circle Sea Hold for a story sweet and bitter as family, as revenge.
The Greatest Potter in Emelan. If you can get past the odd culture clash in the first sentence, this is a great story. It's based on Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic/Circle Opens series about craft mages. It's probably comprehensible if you don't know the series, and not really spoilery because you won't have the context for the spoilery bits. One of the things I love about these novels is Pierce's ability to show us how an ordinary life and ordinary moments can also be extraordinary. The eponymous potter, whose plain clay pots never break, sums up the heart of the entire series.
A Storybook Story, a short coda to one of my favorite movies of all time, The Princess Bride, made me laugh repeatedly and aloud. Completely in the spirit of the movie.
Chimes at Midnight recasts Hal and Hotspur as wounded veterans of WWI, dreaming of Agincourt, remembering Loos. I don't think you need to be familiar with the play to read this.
In Formosi Pueri, a perfect Patrick O'Brien pastiche, Stephen has a serious mission, and some of Jack's lieutenants have a rather less serious one. Very funny in the O'Brien style, with a neat cameo from a historical personage.
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