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Signal boost: green_knight is a freelancer looking for clients - offered services include research, editing, translations to or from German and other things. I hired her for copyediting on that flash fiction collection I'm dragging my feet on, and found her nice to work with, and prompt.
Spent quite some time in the garden yesterday. Among other things I dug up the butterfly bush that died this winter, planted sunflowers my mother had grown from seeds, and planted a vine of seedless grapes. The old vegetable beds are at the moment covered mostly with strawberries and thistles. Yay, strawberries! XD Today I made luch for my mother and myself, and tried on most of the clothes in one of my two wardrobes. I have too many clothes! Most of them are inherited, so there's things like weird-coloured trousers I have no top to wear with... @_@ Late afternoon/early evening was one of my cousin's birthdays, and I went there again. Good thing, too: it was the first time in years I got steak actually grilled over actual fire. :D I also asked my oldest cousin if he could give me some tips with the whole job application thing. Which was a bit of a strain for my nerves (just my usual "wah, I'm so clueless that if I ask what I don't know people will think I'm stupid and hate me"-anxiety), but my nerves need a thicker skin, they do. This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/172514.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: daily post
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. “They used to be afraid of the dark,” the old bogeyman said.
“And either huddle or run when they just heard a noise in the dark,” the dullahan added, “or outright faint.”
“Last time I tried to scare someone, they asked where I got the mask,” the nopperra-bo said.
“I blame the movies.”
The dullahan lifted his head from his knees with both hands to nod it.
“They made humans brave.”
The nopperra-bo sneered, “No, they just made them jaded.”
“Either way, I fear we do not matter anymore. Humans have become too good at scaring each other.”
Inspired by the prompt "What frightens the monsters?" by Lyn Thorne-Alder
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/171817.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: drabbles, fishbowl 2 - horror
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. When I woke up in what laid claim to the lofty label of “clinic”, I took it slow. The nerves of the used-new body needed a little time and practise to work together well with my old brain. When the pins-and-needles feeling crested, I started wiggling my fingers and toes. Working up from there, I met no problems. At some point my doctor-technician arrived, but she didn’t rush me. I paid her enough.
The new body was a pretty standard model, outwardly human, black hair and almond eyes. Shorter than my old one, I was reminded when sitting up on the edge of the bed left my feet dangling high in the air, but I’d get used to it. I liked the point symmetry of the ID that came with it, the main components swashes over the left temple and right jaw. I rubbed over those lines, even though the skin there did not feel different, which prompted the doc to ask a question.
“Want to test yourself if the re-keying worked?” the doc said.
I shook my head. “I trust you.” Close enough, anyway. And if she wanted to fool me, she could have rigged the test equipment.
“Thanks. We had no problems with the other brain, either. Everything as you requested.” Keyed to my old ID, transplanted to my old body, motor functions disabled.
“Very good.” I would arrange an accident. With just a little more record-cooking, I would be dead.
A completely different man with no family and friends, whose social anxiety had got so bad he had even stopped seeing his shrink, would start over. Background like that is why you pick a mark. The nice ID was just a bonus.
The title was a prompt by Becca Stareyes
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/169793.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: first person, fishbowl 3, flash fiction, identity, science fiction
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. You stayed with me.
At first I feared you might be playing, and planning to leave me for the fun of it, but I was wrong. You stayed with me.
I went home to a world you never saw, and you stayed with me.
I slipped back into a place that was waiting for me, where we had to find and make one for you, and you stayed with me.
I remembered the gods you had served, and I was afraid they would call you back, but you stayed with me.
Deep inside, that fear and doubt smouldered, only winking out and cooling as our first grandchild grew up. I hope I hid them well enough. I never wanted to hurt you.
You watched me age, at twice your pace, and you stayed with me.
You were always there for me.
I cannot thank you enough.
I'm sorry I can't stay.
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/168629.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: fantasy, first person, flash fiction, romance
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. “When I was a kid, we could still shoot them,” the cop said.
Mira just gave a noncommittal hum and continued her work.
“Thieving little bastards.”
This case was about a diamond bracelet, but still, it was a generalisation.
“I mean, they’re pests, everybody knows that. No matter how smart they are. Eat songbird chicks.”
The magpie struggled as Mira transferred it from the big trap to a smaller transport box. Neither agreeing nor arguing worked as she’d intended; the cop calmed down and got back to business, adsressing the bird.
“You are being arrested on suspicion of grand theft. A lawyer will be provided to you, given that it’s unlikely you have one.”
Mira chuckled. His half irritated, half worried look she answered with, “Close enough to by the book if you ask me. No complaints.”
“Good. Thanks for your help. I just hope we got the right one this time.”
Inspired by the prompts "A species of animal is ruled legally sapient and subject to protection - and prosecution - under human law" by Herm Baskerville and "The magpie in the tree" by TJK
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/167695.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: animals, fishbowl 3, flash fiction, police
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. If you're interested in legal, free music downloads, for listening or to use as background for videos or other projects, here are three possible sources for you.
Musopen is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to making compositions that are in the public domain actually available. They produce recordings of classic music, which they then place in the public domain. You can also find sheet music at their website.
Jamendo is a platform for indie musicians. All music there can be downloaded for free and is available under a creative commons licence. Most seem to be limited to non-commercial use with derivative works distributed under the same conditions, but there is a section of their site where you can look for more open licences.
At Incompetech, Kevin MacLeod offers music, mostly "soundtrack" kind of things, under a creative commons Attribution licence, with an option to license pieces for a one-time fee if credit is not possible or not wanted.
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/166854.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: music, resources
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. If you like supporting creative projects directly, whether by donations or giving people ideas, see if there's something of interest here. It's a collection of projects that caught my eye, particularly fiction Fishbowls where you leave prompts for someone to use as basis for writing. At the end you'll find links to stories written to my prompts in February, as well as my activity last month.
Networking on Twitter
If you run a project - writing, drawing, anything else - which involves asking people for prompts, and you plug it on twitter, consider including the hashtag #promptcall
Updates of last month's projects
With a bit over two days to go, Plunge, the ezine for queer women in genre literature, is fully funded.
The Pueblo of Acoma Storytelling Studio on the other hand isn't close to its goal yet, though there are two weeks to go still.
Planned Prompt Calls
Most dates were drawn from start-of-the-month posts in the crowdfunding communities on Dreamwidth and Livejournal
Based on my prompts
I don't think any of those stories need content warnings, though I can't vouch for other content you might find looking around.
Hopefully I didn't forget anything; I need to get more systematic about the bookmarking.
My Activity
Fishbowl stories posted publicly in February:
The Law & Order Fishbowl I ran in February will probably end up with relatively few stories; there is a pattern of someone's general prompt working together with someone else's more concrete one to create one story idea. I'm not as far along as I wanted to be by now, partly because I spent the last three days getting my computer to work again. While I did not lose any actual writing, I'm not sure I'll be able to recover my organised notes with the prompts and ideas based on them. (More frequent and thorough backups in future for me.)
The file with the stories from the Horror Fishbowl is at the editor's.
And lastly, five of the requests from the last Small Art Call are finished now.
    
That project is going more slowly than I'd like, too, but I'm picking up the pace and hope to get most of it done before March is over.
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/163842.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourced creativity, gallery updates
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Originally published at ankewehner.de. You can comment here or there. Fran wished there was more to the stories of poltergeists, if she had to be not-quite-dead-enough. No moving of objects or whispering of threats for her. Richards might feel her touch, but she had tried only once. He had looked up with a grin splitting his face, revelling in her powerlessness, and finished strangling his next victim.
A lock of the boy’s hair had gone into an old paint can and up on a shelf right under the low ceiling of Richards’ shack. He was not the last.
Turning her attention inward hardly shielded her from those scenes; her sight and hearing were not bound to eyes and ears anymore, and she could feel the fear and pain running through her like a current. She did not even have the solace of company in this prison. Judging from Richards’ occasional bows and thank-yous to the “loge of spectators”, there were indeed several ghosts, but Fran found no way for them to communicate.
All she had was a vague sense of their presence, which might have been her imagination. That, and what Richards called his shows, which, death by death, chipped away at her sanity.
Inspired by the prompts "Invisible witnesses" and "Crimes against ghosts and spectres" by Tango
This entry was also posted at http://anke.dreamwidth.org/162837.html. You can comment wherever you prefer.Tags: contemporary fantasy, fishbowl 3, flash fiction, horror, third person
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- Mon, 13:56: #musicmonday http://t.co/hziherco Classical music recordings placed in the #publicdomain
- Mon, 15:19: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose http://t.co/znHLgdBc
- Mon, 18:11: RT @lynthornealder: Productive, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the January Giraffe Call (@anke) http://t.co/Yr4zumlO
- Mon, 18:17: RT @Wiswell: Infuriating RT @jelizap The MPAA gives an R rating to a documentary about teen bullying. http://t.co/Vh7ecyL0
- Mon, 18:19: RT @Inventrix: I have discovered there is at least one person in the world who thought Stephenie Meyer wrote Wuthering Heights.
- Mon, 20:51: RT @AnonyOps: BREAKING @techdirt post about #SOPA censored by bogus #DMCA takedown http://t.co/kvwQmr2H #censorship
- Mon, 22:11: RT @thinkgeek: Need a pic of young Clint Eastwood holding an armadillo while looking pretty much exactly like Wolverine? We can help. ht ...
- Tue, 06:26: RT @CA_Young: ...and really, once you write "poop" on something, it's hard to be intimidated by it in any serious way. #writingsecrets
- Tue, 08:18: If you wrote nonfiction books about religion and your last name was "Chick", would you publish them under a pseudonym?
- Tue, 08:31: RT @gloriapike: Photo: Brush Cuckoo. also on dA here: http://t.co/qpEieBGe http://t.co/WfsFKo6F
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