International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants

Happy International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day everyone!

If you've forgotten all about this holiday, refresh your memory here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Pixel-Stained_Technopeasant_Day

-TN

... are on my LJ now.

Long Live the Wretched Work!

Wow, has it been a whole year already?

sordak and I have been s-l-o-w-l-y writing (in my case massively revising) our stories.

Last year Titans' Travels, the continuation of The Roman View (an alternate history of Ancient Rome) had recently started.

I'm still nattering (and carping) on Make A Wish Upon Tomorrow, and I've been attempting to review books and stories I've been reading lately.

Our site is also 'hosting' (with permission I am re-posting and editing) a series of vignetts by my heart sister under the title of Other-wheres and Other-whens that take place in another reality and involves magic, Fey-folk, unicorns and sentient animals.

I hope some of you will take a few minutes to look over our drabblings and maybe leave a comment. Or mention one (or all) of them to your friends.

From the universe of my near-complete and long-blogged-about fantasy novel, Three Katherines of Allingdale, here's a later folk-tale of how the most dubious and disreputable of the three - the witch Kit Fox of Maltby - once saved the world.  Sort of.

The Wave That Broke on the Ingerfell

Happy technopeasantry to all!

Naturally, it's late. But for everyone's amusement, here's a story from my "Under the Green Moon Setting. Enjoy everyone, and happy IPSTP Day!

The Last Great Victory of the Green Legion

Well that's all- see ya next year!

Oh, yes, my offering for the pixel-stained technopeasant wretchedry: a 700-word humor column about getting great ideas in one's sleep, more or less.

Oh My Heart, Oh My Soul

Cottington dropped the desiccated pixie’s body into the boiler's holding box and turned the stoking mechanism that fed the fire. A decently dried pixie corpse would give a good six good hours of steady heat. One of the pixie’s wings caught in the mechanism and Cottington grabbed a small poker to push it through to the grate, slamming the holding box door as the pixie flared.

“Charles!” he called, “Open the number two, and watch the pressure on the Professor’s device.”

“Got it, old man!” Charles Porter’s voice echoed from the rear of the hanger. “I know my business, thank you!”

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Happy IPSTPD! In continuation from my offering for last year, this year I offer up Decisions Under Sothis.

Additional publicly available fiction is accessible in my LJ under the tag Brigit's Flame

My new contribution for this year: "But Who Shall Lead the Dance?"

Other free fiction of mine is listed here, with links either to magazine archives or previous IPSTP posts on my own site.


--Marie Brennan

Caesar's narrative in the alternate history story by Michael L. Coburn - The Roman View - has ended, but the adventure is continuing with Little Brother's adventures in Titans' Travels.

The Fall of Rome is being derailed even further when Little Brother chases after monsters discovered in a hidden room under Caesar's Palace. Updates are posted weekly on Sundays.