My site's back up and my backlog's taken care of, but now Peak'd is down for maintenance. Huzzah.
I usually do my prompted work there, so we might be high and dry for twenty-four hours.
If so, there shall be twofer whenever normal services remain.
Which happens to be now. Yay. Glad to be back!
I am now offski to do the daily thing. Yay.
A traveling hellkin was a highly skilled medic who knew how to make most medicines, use magic to heal, and was an accomplished surgeon. They did not discriminate with their treatments, and only charged as much as a person was capable of paying. Even if it meant just asking for a simple meal, or, not asking for anything more, than a thank you. -- Anon Guest
If someone looked no further than first impressions, he looked like a wandering vagabond carrying a
Read more »We get income today. Huzzah. A weight off my shoulders, at least until I need to go shopping again.
Life's getting expensive.
I'm recording and arranging the next video, today. Possibly fiddling with a co-op project. And of course reviewing some fellow writers' microfictions so that I'm eligible to be read on stream.
And treating my ankle.
I want to play some games today. And tomorrow. I'll see what the assorted distractions allow me to do.
Onwards to the imaginings.
Read more »I just finished writing chapter 570 of A Devil's Tale, so that means five more chapters to record for Adorable. Or maybe the eventual professional voice recording person. Whoever that may be.
I have a video to share, a story to write, some memetic nonse to indulge in... and I might even pull the finger out and arrange for the blood test that's been pending for like... a month.
Procrastination is strong when you don't want the local vampires sticking you with
Read more »Read more »They were born the only child in a family of immense wealth that had gained the ire of the local populace, and was taken from that place while still young and impressionable. The family were not killed, the local populace didn't want them to be able to have THAT much of an escape. Worse, the child, raised in a humble, poor, community with love, kindness, and knowing the values of a family that cared, was sent back to them older, and created
If war is diplomacy by violence, then the currency of exchange is in the bodies of the youth. And so a General must make his bitter calculus, choosing which men to hurl at the enemy defenses in the grim hope that the righteous side is victorious. -- Deathshead419
The best kind of war, say many philosophers, is the one you don't have to fight. Many war hawks have ignored this wisdom and prefer to throw fighting youth at the enemy until one
Read more »I overspent again just making sure we had adequate supplies. Much though I'd love to pull my head in, we do run out of stuff.
And Mayhem has the Lurgi. It's so bad he's asked for "Shandy" - my horrible concoction of an omnicure. I made sure he also has a source of chicken soup.
In a few minutes, I shall begin making my offerings public. Starting with the storytime video. I have a co-op story to get on with, the rant
Read more »Read more »Below the waves is a shrine. Those who lay upon the alter join the sirens, gaining a new form and an enrapturing voice. And Arbin had best learn to use these new pipes, for the sacred duty of sirens is to ensure at least one is always singing a lullaby. For if the song ever falls silent, something lurking in the darkest depths may awaken at last…
Inspired by BKF's comment below this previous tale: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04657-l273-uninhabited --
Not necessarily dealt with in that order. It's going to be a strain on our economy, but I will get us stocked up with bits and bobs, stuff and things, and things and stuff.
Costco will be open soon, so I'll be icing my ankle ere I launch for the Leyland's tour. Everything else will be happening after I return victorious with my haul.
Gotta line up the stuff for my Patrons. Gotta get a rattle on with the side projects. Gotta
Read more »An apprentice healer saves a mysterious stranger from a fever. The thankful stranger gives the healer a box, promising that when the time comes, the box will open and the debt will be repaid. -- Deathshead419
Devryq never knew the stranger's name. They were just a fellow traveler at the waystation-house. One in need, because they were deep in a fever. Deveryq hadn't thought of rewards, just of the need ze could see to.
It didn't matter that the stranger was a
Read more »I have new glasses, and the weight of the new lenses is causing some pain in the nose stop area. Not at all helped by there being a firkin pimple on one side, right where it would be the biggest annoyance.
I got rid of that thing, but the area still hurts.
I have finally sorted which idea to use for this week's prompt - another one I didn't vote for. So I can work on that, the prompt from the Promptcast,
Read more »The child thought they were human, until they began to enter their teen years and certain things began to manifest that showed they were not. Small scales, occasional flame, they were frightened. Then a kind hand reached out to them and stated "No you're not a freak, or a monster, but child, you are changing. It's time you learned your heritage." -- Anon Guest
Everyone knows that things can happen to a body growing into maturity. For Humans, the usual speech is
Read more »This idiot who forgot that the streams are on TODAY. I am the diddle daddle dummins. FML
I wasted some of yesterday's hours waiting for a stream that was happening today.
At least I got bread done.
I'm hoping the streams go forth, and working on the prompts before I go forth and start on my regular offerings. In fact, I'm about to record the audio for Monday's video. Huzzah.
Onwards to my organised chaos.
Read more »Over the objections of his advisors, the youngest of seven princes makes friends with a warren of kobolds whose home was right under the estate he'd been given. That friendship pays off during a brutal rebellion, when he is able to get innocents hidden so they do not suffer. How did the alliance form? He almost paid his life to protect the warren from poachers trying to take eggs. -- Anon Guest
History easily becomes stories. Some of those stories transform in
Read more »The Archhive is not reading anything today. Neither is the Promptcast. Because it's Halloween in the US. Where they are.
So I don't have a 4-6 hour distraction from my normal offerings.
I've signed up for QueryTracker at long blipping last, and I now have a fresh PLN for pitching my books. I can seek out agents willing to look at my stuff and go through them alphabetically. I can even use it to pitch.
Starting tomorrow.
I now have new glasses,
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