So much for Zhukov’s walk-on. We’re finding out that it seems Allen has been very lucky for the three years he’s been stuck in this cavern. “There are fouler things than Crabbies in the deep places of the world.”
For a kid, Alicia keeps her wits about her. But then, she’s from a hard family on a hard world.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/12″It’s Friday, so here’s a longer segment. I always seem to have people talking during a meal; quirk of mine, I suppose. As you’ll see on Monday, from the last paragraph here I have her jump to the conclusion, with “so that’s what happened.” Otherwise, I’m retelling swaths from Ice Inundation Intelligence, which all of you have already read.
Since I asked myself about vitamin D deficiency, I had to do some research. Guess what’s on the menu next week?
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/9″New secondary character, batting clean up for what happened in the last pages of A Texas Naval Affair. It is with timeslips such as this that I have no choice but to pause and make notes. Lots of notes.
Looks as if I’ve enough segments to make it to Friday. I’m taking today and part of tomorrow to complete my spreadsheet of character ages (as three generations, so far, have been covered in this MS). I also need to get the sketch of the cavern down so I stop using things such as [north?] as placeholders as I have no idea which way they are facing.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/7″Ask stupid questions, get handed funny answers. I laughed all the while typing this little interlude. Back on the surface, we get a short glimpse into what Kira’s been up to. Being one of her, that’s quite a lot.
The last line illustrates that being a human at the mercy of demi-humans in an autocratic political system does have some drawbacks.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/6″With Alicia praying in the last segment, that opens the story to a little more religion, both hers and her speculation.
Even knowing better, she’s still a girl and takes an action wish seems innocuous, but in fact changes everything.
I wonder what’s going on back on the surface?
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/5″And here’s a Machine Civilization first: an alien race. Recently, the stories have taken me places I never expected to go: for example, Fussy and Ed’s time slip in “Ice Inundation Intelligence” and me still not knowing what Kalí is. So, here are some aliens. Are they native to Mars or imports from somewhere else? Did they used to live on the surface then went underground as the atmosphere blew away? And, most importantly, are any still around? I have no idea.
Tiny cliff – or parapet – hanger as we go into the weekend. See everyone on Monday.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/4″Made a decision yesterday which resulted in the rewrite of a few paragraphs, about three segments from now. I now am much more comfortable with where Alicia is going. And that means *yeah!* back to daily updates, by and large. It also helps to put pressure onto me to say ahead of things rather than sitting about drinking Manhattans and not moving the story forward.
My editing of all this: people, dates, ages, locations, maps, is going to rival what I had to do for the American Imperium trilogy. And this is just a little girl lost down a hole. And, admittedly, I’m getting a “Moria” vibe, not “Wonderland.”
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/3″No, this will not be a recap of “Alice in Wonderland.” In fact, it is proving to be rather difficult: most of my stories are driven by character interaction. Once I focus in on Alicia Alvarez, alone, then there is much more exposition than I am used to.
That’s fine, I suppose. I often try to do something “different” when writing. That’s usually changing genres but in this case, I guess it will be my task to learn to write with only a single character.
Unless she meets something.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/1″Here we close out Part 3. Each of these is longer than the previous, so I do wonder what kind of adventure Alicia will have.
For all of Anton Senior’s devotion to his wife, he’s still a guy and we guys will always look. Saras knows that full well, but chides him, anyway. It’s all in fun. I think her declaration at the end was a good way to wrap this up.
Next Monday: down the rabbit hole. Deus vult.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 3/11 (end pt3)”Finally realized yesterday that I will not – cannot – force this story beyond where it wants to stop. If I did, then it becomes my story and not theirs. So, 35k words, 40, 50? Not worried anymore. It will be what it is.
Being in territory nominally claimed by the imperium, things are much more relaxed and open. We know Fussy and Aurelia would routinely strip and bathe in front of their troops, so it seems Saras is like that, as well. Morals were very strict after the Breakup/Change, but that was three, nearly four generations ago, now. And, demis are used to doing their own thing.
I’m not about to get drawn into another meeting and another dinner, so Part 3 may wrap up on the next installment.
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