Story: An Unusual Inheritance

Well, been a bit of a lazy August these past couple weeks. I’m going away for the last week of the month (I can’t believe how soon that is!) so I’ll do my best to keep up with the posting schedule until then. When I get back, I’m going to focus on making sure posts stay more regular. I might change Saturday story updates to just weekend story updates, since that’s basically how I’ve been treating them.

Anyway, this story was inspired by the latest session of my Dungeons & Dragons group from college (we play online now since all of us have scattered around after graduation). Adding in a variation of the puzzle we had to solve to get the reward seemed like it’d get too long, so I skipped it. The important part was the reward itself, anyway. I just really like the idea of creepy pets and I hope we get to keep it in our game, haha.

Title: An Unusual Inheritance
Length: 1,263 words
Characters: Unnamed

Story: 365 Shorts #17

Ok, here’s a second story to make up for last weekend’s missed post.

This is another short “Surprise! End of the world” type one-shots. I seem to remember writing a lot of these. The idea of some sudden supernatural disaster occurring in an urban setting is just so appealing to me. It’s also the plot of a few of my favorite video games (all the games in the Devil Survivor series). Maybe this says something about me, haha.

I think I’m going to go back and see what else I can tag with “surprise monsters”.

Length: 503 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#17. “There is no time to explain.”

Story: 365 Shorts #9

I felt a bit too under the weather to do much of anything that required thought last weekend. I’m going to try and post a second thing tonight to make up for it and try to keep a habit from forming.

This is the ninth story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I think this was about the time in the project that I started making an effort to name the characters and to use names I wouldn’t normally pick. Not much else to say about this one, except that I apparently like the idea of creepy things happening in places that serve delicious coffee and baked goods.

Length: 980 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#16. “Okay, pal, who are you?”

Story: 365 Shorts #4

A little late with this week’s story update. After two hours of exercise followed by a few hours of socializing at a luncheon, I was too exhausted to do much yesterday. I blame the socializing, mostly. I always need quite a bit of recharge time after parties.

Anyway, this is the fourth story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. It was originally a bit longer in the middle, but I cut out a few paragraphs that didn’t seem to add anything to the story. It actually feels like I took out more than I did, because of how much more I like it now.

Length: 793 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#46. It was coming from her leg.

Story: 365 Shorts #1

The first story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I’ve always loved reading and watching things about cryptozoology and I’ve felt a kind of possessive pride for this particular cryptid ever since I first saw cartoon images of it as a child attending the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC. I might do more with these characters later; I haven’t decided yet.

Length: 894 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#53. “Are you gone?!”

Story: Catching Fireflies

I’ve been noticing a lot more fireflies out and about this summer than I remember there being last summer. I’ve always found watching them to be soothing, so I wanted to do a little thing as a tribute to them. (As a side note, I apparently have two songs on my mp3 player titled “Fireflies”. I listened to them both on repeat while writing this.)

I’m using the main couple from my webserial again. I tried to include enough backstory and species information as necessary for anyone who hasn’t read the serial. For more detailed information, feel free to check the World page of the webserial and the pages linked from it. Last week’s story was pre-serial and this one’s about a thousand years post-serial. It also includes Risa and Zane’s future daughter. I guess that’s kind of a spoiler, but nothing that should ruin the serial for anyone.

Length: 1,436 words
Characters: Risa, Zane, Ridley
Prompt: Fireflies.

Story: 365 Shorts #20

This is from my “365 Days of Shorts” project. It’s shorter than I thought it was (probably due to my being bad at estimating word count while writing by hand). I don’t have any plans for these characters or their world at the moment; I’m pretty happy with it as a short, one-shot kind of thing.

Length: 451 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#19. “Say that you accept.”

Story: 365 Shorts #22

Another story from my “365 Days of Shorts” project (currently on hold) and the start of my attempt to keep a regular update schedule here. This is the follow-up to Story #21, posted earlier.

Length: 1,319 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#23. Oddly, she could feel no pain.

Story: 365 Shorts #21

This is one of the stories from my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I’m not going to be posting them in any particular order (hence starting with #21). Since I wound up really liking the white-haired character in this, I wrote a follow-up to this story that I’ll be posting at a later date. Edit: Follow-up now posted.

Length: 1,151 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#4: “Up already?”

Story: Hazel’s

So, yes, it’s been a couple months since I last posted. Oops? I had reasons, but I’m not going to get into that. One thing I learned back when my younger self was heavily invested in writing multi-chapter fanfiction was that making excuses for long absences and/or promising to update more often was kind of pointless and never really fixed anything. What I will say is that I have a small stash of stories that I wrote during my blogging absence that I can use to make posting more often happen.

This one I started writing when I was looking for new sources of inspiration. It’s based off of the username of a friend of mine (hazelpan). I think it turned out a bit weirder/creepier/tastier(?) than I was expecting, but I’m happy with it. I’m hoping she’ll find it enjoyable too.

Story title: Hazel’s
Length: 1,332 words
Genre: Urban Fantasy, I guess?
Characters: Stacy, Unnamed baker