Poem: "Becoming the Library"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Aether Dancer
Colors: Vellum #20 "Authority"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 293
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply.
Summary: Sesha Fulbright prepares for her first adventure.
Note: Aether Dancer is a steampunk shared world, set in a post-apocalyptic future. My character Sesha Fulbright is a traveling scholar.

This is the final fill for the Vellum list!  I need a story tag for Aether Dancer.

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Poem: "A Dream of Sleep"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Stand-alone
Colors: Moonlight #2 "Half-asleep"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 331
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply.
Summary: People band together around an ideal to found a new colony.
Note: This poem belongs to my main science fiction setting, but doesn't attach to an established storyline. It's just the backstory for one of the colonies.

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Poem: "Itching and Scratching"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Fledgling Grace
Colors: Moonlight #3 "Moonrise"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 778
Rating/Warnings: R; no standard warnings apply. Violence, vulgar language, homelessness, alcoholism, prostitution.
Summary: Changing wings lead to a changing life.
Note: Fledgling Grace is a spiritual fantasy series. It explores what would happen if everyone suddenly started sprouting wings. This deals in matters of identity, faith, compassion, healing, history, and divinity.

I need a story tag for Fledgling Grace, please.
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Poem: "Installing the Unicorn"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Torn World
Colors: Moonlight #4 "Seashore"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 239
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply.
Summary: Taryo watches the delivery of a new display at the Museum of Mortality.
Note: Torn World is a science fantasy shared world setting. The Southern Empire is a science-heavy society with some temporal technology ... which they depend on but do not understand fully, and which is causing problems they also do not really recognize yet.

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Poem: "Defragging the Wetdrive"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Schrodinger's Heroes
Colors: Moonlight #6 "Enigma"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 480
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply.
Summary: Tim the Tentacle Monster dreams differently than humans do.
Note: Schrodinger's Heroes is a shared world featuring an apocryphal television show. It's about quantum mechanics, alternative dimensions, and saving the world. The cast is ethnically and sexually diverse.

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Caput Mortuum #9, Byzantium #10, Bittersweet #2

[shadowsong26]

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Checking In
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Caput Mortuum #9. Advanced Decay, Byzantium #10. It is crueller to be always afraid of dying than to die., Bittersweet #2. memories
Supplies and Materials: bichromatic, acrylic, watercolors, oils, stain, pastels (my current gen + romance card N5 "history"), glitter
Word Count: 520
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Mariko, Simon
Warnings: Amnesia, references to Lux setting Mariko on fire, references to medical experimentation
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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