Rainbow Fiction

Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "Dreams of War and Peace"
Story: Torn World
Characters: None named
Colors: Moonlight #19 Sidereal
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 138
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Warsailors sleep and dream.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

The following poem belongs to the shared world of Torn World. This is science fantasy in a setting where temporal technology has had severe negative impacts. There are two main cultures, the snow-unicorn riders in the north and the Empire in the south.

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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "Barbara's Technicolor Dreamhouse"
Story: Stand-alone
Characters: Barbara, Catherine
Colors: Moonlight #18 Idyll
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 807
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Barbara finds her way home.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

This poem came out of the June 4, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from zianuray and wyld_dandelyon. This poem has been sponsored by Shirley Barrette.

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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "Electric Dreams"
Story: Stand-alone
Characters: None named
Colors: Moonlight #15 Ephemeral
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 280
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nightmares
Summary: A nightmare encounters an artificial intelligence.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "Once You Have Touched Her"
Story: Stand-alone
Characters: None named
Colors: Moonlight #12 Sibilant
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 392
Rating: R
WARNING: This poem contains rape, graphic violence, torture, mystical horror, revenge, and other touchy topics. If you are sensitive to these matters or horror writing in general, seriously consider reading something else. For those of you who like seeing the bad guys Get Theirs, however, that also happens.
Summary: A ship-captain taken prisoner lashes out at her enemies in unexpected ways.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

Could someone please remove the "author: amber" tag?  That's incorrect, and the settings won't let me delete it.

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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "Kindred Dreams"
Story: World Walkers
Characters: None named
Colors: Moonlight #10 Noctilucent
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 127
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: A sister seeks to aid her injured brother by magic.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

I need a story tag for World Walkers.

This poem came out of the June 4, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by kajones_writing. It is posted here in barter for the stories "First Feed," "Exploring Charlotte's Room," and "Talking to Anna" by kajones_writing.

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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "The Terrible Fascinating Power"
Story: Stand-alone
Characters: Henry Johnson, Netta of Sierra Leone, Ezra, Macon, Chung-Cha
Colors: Moonlight #7 Scintillate
Supplies and Styles: None
Word count: 1,128
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Slavery, torture, violence, revolt, death of enemy characters
Summary: Kidnapped from various parts of the Earth, captive humans stage a rebellion on an alien slave ship.
Notes: Feedback is welcome.

This is the freebie for the June 2013 Crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from alexconall, who wanted to read about "La Amistad  in space."  It also fills the Whipping/Flogging square in my card for the hc_bingo fest.

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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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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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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: Torn World
Colors: Vellum #19 "Sigla"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 786
Rating/Warnings: PG; no standard warnings apply. Verbal intimidation.
Summary: Livana starts a new club for people who want to explore weird events and objects, but discovers that her people skills are a little shy of the mark.
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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Name: ysabetwordsmith
Story: An Army of One
Colors: Vellum #16 "Recension"
Styles/Supplies: None
Word Count: 1,340
Rating/Warnings: R. This doesn't map exactly to human labels because the target is not human; but for me, the content overlaps issues of past rape and child abuse, dealing with the violation of memory and identity. Current environment is safe.
Summary: Babs and Miles discover false memories in the files of the OCS-397.
Note: An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space is about a group of neurovariant people who establish a society of their own between the galactic arms. This is sociological science fiction with some crossover into military SF.

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