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Little John the Baker #WeWriWa #8Sunday #SnipSun #SundaySnippets 29 November 2020
The Blurb
The fate of the Cosmos rests in the hands of an unlikely team of unusual friends. Will an exiled member of an ancient extraterrestrial race, a human ghost, and two ghouls be able to outfox an ancient evil and beat Nyarlathotep at his game before time runs out? This buddy story is the first in a series of New Cthulhu Mythos cliffhangers.
The Notes
Last time Robin put Ketil in his place.
The Snippet
“I am unsure why you would say this, Big John,” Ketil
countered. “In this Land of Dream, surely there is a place where one could bake
things. Or do ghouls find baked goods unpalatable?”
“Oh, Matey, I may have to consume rotting human flesh to
maintain this terrible body, but I still have a great zest for baked goods,”
Little John revealed sorrowfully. “I enjoy eatin’ ‘em, but I love the baking
even more than the eating. When I was alive, my ideal brine and tupper was a
good fresh bit of beef seasoned with savory herbs and accompanied by some
lovely roast tatties, onions, and carrots. I’d have a bit of good wine and some
of me own fresh-baked bread with butter. Loved it you would have, me buckos. T’
was a warm, crusty loaf which tasted just right with butter or cheese or jam.
T’ was fit for a bleedin’ king! But now I’m a living dead thing, and there will
be no bakeries or fine simple suppers. T’ is only rotting flesh for the rest of
eternity.”
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First Look Friday: Superstition and Tradition: An Unexpected Feast
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Superstition and Tradition
An Unexpected Feast
As Little John, Ketil, and Yitzy made their way to the
second story of the House of Lost Dreams, they came upon an illuminated
ballroom with a long table containing a preponderance of food fit for both the
living and the Undead. They stood outside the doorway pondering the situation.
“I has reason to believe that Nyarlathotep has conjured this
feast for us,” the snarky Swedish spectre mused. “Only an idiot would think
otherwise. However, I cannot fathom why he chose an American Thanksgiving
feast. None of us is American, and Yitzy is not even from Earth.”
“Should we investigate, Ketil?” Little John wondered. “Surrounded
by the Dorothy Lamour frame, the va va voom looks loike a beautiful paintin' of
a diamond feast. Of course, it could 'eaven and 'ell be a trap.”
“I imagine that it is a test of some sort even if not a trap
as such,” Yitzy surmised. “I find it odd that although there are only three of
us the place is set to accommodate several hundred guests.”
“We could give it a pass,” Little John proposed. “It does
seem a bit much, which increases the bloomin' chances of it bein' a trap,
daan't ya fin'?”
“I think that this overly opulent setting is quite on brand
for Nyarlathotep,” Ketil replied. “Although he prides himself on being in tune
with the inner motivation of those with whom he is fucking, he is used to
setting traps for greedy arseholes what craves excess. Thus, he sees fit to
bludgeon us with more food than we could consume within a month, forgetting
that Yitzy and I do not even need to eat. Well, since he went to the trouble of
conjuring this feast, I suppose it would be impertinent of us not to content
ourselves with this plethora of provisions.”
“Perhaps something in this room will prove to be a catalyst
for our mission,” Yitzy surmised.
“Either that or we must content ourselves to realize that we
shall keep being pulled on a thread by the Cosmic Trickster, his equally
manipulative daughter, and a vampire goddess whose greatest pleasure is draining
the life from her victims,” Ketil mused. “Perhaps Nyarlathotep has been kind
enough to leave us a tablet upon which to compose our clever plans. Or perhaps
he leaved an arrow somewhere in the room with a sign declaring ‘the key to the
third lock is this way.’ I have a desire to be propelling that beastly vase on
that platform at his head, or to turn into an eagle and fly away from this
house of insane fuckery.”
“Be careful wot ya say abaht wantin' ter turn into summit else, China Plate,” Little John cautioned. “Rilpu thought it would be sugar and spice ter 'ave German Bands and bacon and eggs, and she went and turned from a Joe Blake into a 'uman-like twist n twirl.”
Acknowledgments
Nyarlathotep is the creation of H.P. Lovecraft, initially
appearing in his 1920 story of the same name.
October Spooky Writing Challenge: Superstition
Putting My Feet in the Dirt
https://puttingmyfeetinthedirt.com/
Reedsy Prompts
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
Write about someone telling their family that they won’t be
continuing in the long-standing family business.
This story was submitted to the Reedsy Weekly Writing
Contest on 27 November 2020.
The Daily Spur: Idiot
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/idiot/
Fandango’s One-Word Challenge: Impertinent
https://fivedotoh.com/2020/11/25/fowc-with-fandango-impertinent/
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie: Wordle
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/wordle-216-2/
Reason
Thread
Life
Goddess
Prove
Catalyst
Bludgeon
Keep
Reflect
Doorway
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Preponderance
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/rdp-wednesday-preponderance/
Words for Wednesday
https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com/2020/11/words-for-wednesday_25.html
This week's prompts are:
Tablet
Platform
Arrow
Frame
Content
And /or
Vase
Eagle
Ballroom
Propelling
Brand
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After sitting on the shelf for two years, my little novelette, Coming to Earth, got its first rating.
One star.
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Stripped to Please: Meeting Max #MFRWHooks
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Last week, I finished sharing as much of Coming to Earth as I'm willing to give away. I'm sharing Down on the Farm with the MFRW Steam hop, so today I'm going to start sharing snippets from Stripped to Please, the third novelette in the Carnal Invasion series. Links for purchasing the story or the first collection follow the snippet.
The Blurb
When spoiled rich college boy Maxwell Bancroft decides to stop in at the XXX Show Club, he meets two sexy strippers who are literally out of this world.
The Snippet
Maxwell Bancroft had never been particularly good at
anything, but Daddy’s money always bought him whatever he needed. That is,
until Magnus Bancroft went and married Gloria Mack, who had a nice daughter
about Maxwell’s age, and Max thought it would be fun to seduce his goody
two-shoes stepsister and ruin her for every other guy who came along.
It wasn’t hard for Max to get Wella Mack into his bed, but
that wasn’t because Wella was easy. Wella was proud of having held onto her
virginity for twenty years. Max convinced Wella that theirs was a love that
defied all odds. He assured her that there was no-one else in his heart. He
told Wella that he loved her and succeeded easily at seducing the innocent and
romantic young woman into bed.
The problem was, where Max succeeded, the condom failed, and
Wella, who had been chaste until she met Max, was not on the pill. Wella fell
pregnant, and now Max was being punished for his stupidity.
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My poor little Coming to Earth went for two years with no ratings, and now its first rating is one star. I didn't read what was said, I don't need to be in a bad mood for the rest of the year. But if any of you would be willing to review the story, I'll send you a copy.
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And now for the inevitable...
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Dreamers, lovers, and Star Voyagers: WeWriWa: EU53
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Spooky Sunday: Carved in Flesh: Lost and Lingering
Carved in Flesh
Lost and Lingering
Dominic Dante bowed his head to hide his face as he emerged
from the alley on Elmwood Avenue between Swanson’s Elegant Formals and Aeneid’s
Greek Cafe. He needed to find Eris and show her the evidence of his devotion.
Aeneid Veld’s rebellious eleven-year-old daughter Anna
Amalia had chosen the wrong night to sneak out of the loft above the café. The
street-savvy girl had slipped out at night many times before. She did not fear Crouch
End’s strange underbelly. She had been learning from a book of spells that she’d
purchased at Flash’s Book Studio for her birthday last year and had gained a
fair bit of respect from many of Crouch End’s Things that Go Bump in the Night.
On this night, however, Anna Amalia had run afoul of an
obsessed soul seeking an innocent to sacrifice. Dominic Dante was a tormented young
man who thirsted for both vengeance and acceptance. The stunningly sexy vampire
he met at the Church of Starry Wisdom had promised him both if he proved
himself to her.
Luckily for Anna Amalia, she had allies in the shadowed
night world and Earth’s Dreamlands. One of those allies was hurrying to find help
before the unfortunate girl succumbed to her injuries.
David Clifford was a Scottish musician who had moved to
London in 1960, the year he turned eighteen. His parents and younger siblings moved
to Crouch End three years later. David had died in 2012 from lung cancer. On
this cold November night in 2014, he roamed the streets in spirit.
David’s adopted sister, Lotus Clifford, was a nun who lived in
The Chapel of the Loaves and Fishes on Foxglove Court, along with the parish’s
priest, Father William Kroger. David knew that Lotus and Father Will would
certainly assist Anna, and he knew that Lotus would listen to him if he could
break through the static surrounding her.
Luck was with David, as at that moment, a down-on-his-luck
laborer named Robert Fitzgerald stumbled from the Istasha Tavern. Most people
thought that Rob Fitzgerald was naught but a malt-soaked malingerer, but David
was aware that the man had the second sight, even when he was seeing double.
The spirit hurried to place himself just outside the lamplight directly in
Fitzgerald’s path, allowing the lamp’s beams to illuminate him without making him
appear transparent.
Rob Fitzgerald was deep in blurry thought when he saw the
man standing near the house at the junction where Elmwood Avenue met Quartz
Street. His first inclination was to cross the street and head home another
way, but for reasons he couldn’t explain, he felt that the somehow familiar
stranger could be trusted. Still, he paused before continuing further.
“Just so’s ya know, Mate, I drank up the last of me wages in
the tavern,” Rob slurred. “So, there wouldn’t be no sense to robbin’ me, y’know.”
Acknowledgments
Mormo is the creation of H.P. Lovecraft, appearing in his
1927 story “The Horror at Red Hook.”
The setting of this chapter is based on Stephen King’s short
story “Crouch End.” It is not representative of the actual London borough.
The story utilized the October Spooky Writing Prompt “carved.”
The following prompts from https://puttingmyfeetinthedirt.com/
were also utilized in the creation of this story.
Lost and Lingering
Diligent and Debatable
A Delicate Decree
The Futureless Future
The First Line Friday prompt was utilized in the creation of
this chapter.
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/first-line-friday-november-20th-2020/
The Sunday Writing Prompt was also utilized in the creation
of this chapter.
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This chapter is from my WIP, The Key of Eidolon, which is
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Robin's Advice #WeWriWa #8Sunday #SnipSun #SnippetSunday 22 November 2020
The Blurb
The fate of the Cosmos rests in the hands of an unlikely team of unusual friends. Will an exiled member of an ancient extraterrestrial race, a human ghost, and two ghouls be able to outfox an ancient evil and beat Nyarlathotep at his game before time runs out? This buddy story is the first in a series of New Cthulhu Mythos cliffhangers.
The Notes
Last time Ketil chided Robin for always thinking of his stomach.
The Snippet
“Garron with ya, yer snooty Kraut!” Robin sniffed. “Tryin’
to help me mate, I was. I’m just sayin’ it ain’t smart to be too introspective
in this bloody place. Best to nibble on a good piece of well-cured meat and
live for today. Always look forward and never back, that’s my philosophy.”
“Aw, Robin, I thanks yer!” John sniffled. “Yer just great, Old China Plate, and yer quite right, ya know. I suppose I found meself regretting that I never had a chance to open me own bakery as was me dream. It’s too late now, though.”
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Thirsty Thursday: In His Defense
In His Defense
Robin tried to remain calm, but he felt as if his entire
body was clenching into a fist as he followed his new companion to meet the extraterrestrial
scout who had erroneously decimated his life. Robin Roberts changed irrevocably
on the day that Betsy was taken from him. Although, as Nyarlathotep had
observed to Robin’s chagrin, Robin had remained good at heart, he was much
quicker to let his temper show and much more willing to do things outside the
law to earn a shilling or two for a meal and a pint at the pub and a place to
sleep.
Robin realized that he was squeezing Betsy’s hand much too
tightly, as he had when they first encountered the Mi-Go scout in his
ridiculous rumpled disguise on that fateful October day in 1880. He started to
apologize, but Betsy’s gentle smile and soft squeeze of his clawed fingers let
him know that she understood.
The group approached a Mi-Go pruning roses in a colorful lakeside
garden. Robin and Betsy’s guide spoke to this Mi-Go, buzzing in a language that
Robin didn’t understand. Betsy approached the pair, and Robin realized that
this gentle gardener was the being who had wreaked havoc on his existence. That
such a bucolic creature could cause heart-rending pain through its actions
seemed impossible.
“Mickey, I’d like you to meet Robin,” Betsy said.
Betsy’s voice seemed far away and Robin found himself
wondering if the whole journey to this utopian world designed by alien
creatures for the benefit of certain hand-selected humans was a dream and he
would wake at any minute and find himself back in the dreadful Dream House,
alone and more broken than ever.
“A tender trap, innit?” Robin murmured, his speech slurring.
“Oi, you’ll not fool old Robin Roberts a minute more, yer bastards! I ain’t
joinin’ yer band, Nyarlathotep, yer crusty old filet of cod, and that’s a fact,
Jack! Yer can open me dome and pluck out me John Wayne, but I’ll never be yer
bloody sycophant!”
Betsy gave a horrified cry as Robin collapsed to the warm,
soft ground, the late afternoon sunlight highlighting his green-gray canid
face.
“He’ll be all right,” the Mi-Go called Mickey reassured her.
“He is simply in a state of shock. I imagine it is difficult for him to accept
this new beginning as reality when he has lived for so many years in darkness
and uncertainty. I regret the part that my actions played in causing his
distress.”
“I fear he may have fainted to prevent himself from decking
you, Mickey,” Betsy revealed. “Robin is a gentle soul by nature, but he has a
fiery temper. I believe that he does forgive you, but he is still hurt and
angry.”
“I understand, my sister, and grieve for the pain I caused,”
Mickey stated.
The sun set, and the first of three moons began its ascent,
glistening off the pristine lake surrounded by the gardens of a terraformed
paradise on the edge of the Universe.
Thirsty Thursday
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Acknowledgments
October Spooky Writing Challenge: Trap
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Putting My Feet in the Dirt
https://puttingmyfeetinthedirt.com/
In His Defense
Reedsy Prompts
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
Start your story with two characters watching a sunrise and
end it with one of them seeing the moon reflecting off a lake.
Tale Weaver
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/tale-weaver-302-beginnings-november-19th/
Robin and his friend John are ghouls, a race of Undead
creatures that subsist on decaying human flesh. Ghouls are either born as
ghouls or become ghouls following the death of their bodies through arcane
magic.
Nyarlathotep is the creation of H.P. Lovecraft, initially
appearing in his 1920 story of the same name.
The House of Lost Dreams appears in the Land of Lost Dreams
scenario in the 1996 H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands supplement for the Call of
Cthulhu RPG published by Chaosium.
The Great Race of Yith is the creation of H.P. Lovecraft,
initially appearing in his 1936 novella, The Shadow Out of Time.
The Mi-Go or Fungi from Yuggoth are the creations of H.P.
Lovecraft, appearing in his 1929 sonnet “Fungi From Yuggoth” and in his 1931
story, “The Shadow Out of Time.”
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Divorced dad Birley Haynes is too busy raising his children and running his family’s music academy to start a relationship. Then Harmony Holdich, his high school sweetheart, returns home to Willow Springs, Vermont for Christmas and falls into his bed. She brings light and fun back into his life, but he can’t brush aside the threatening incidents around his workplace.
Harmony hadn’t expected a complication like Birley, especially so soon after the death of her unfaithful husband. With her life a mess, she plans to move across the country and start over. All she can offer him is a fling, but her heart yearns for more.
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Tidbit Tuesday: Tender Trap: A Fungus from Yuggoth
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As Betsy and Robin clung to each other in a loving embrace and
declared their infinite fidelity, the softly buzzing voice of a serene Mi-Go
apologized for the interruption.
“Robin, allow me to introduce A Fungus from Yuggoth,” Betsy
said, bestowing a soft touch on the lower portion of one of the creature’s upper
limbs near its pincer.
“Cer, the Heap of Coke as is gonna be accompanyin’ us on our
voyage,” Robin acknowledged. “Pleasure ter make yer acquaintance, old currant
bun, and I’m more’n willing ter earwig…that is, ter listen ter yer suggestions as
to proceed on this mission.”
“You need not adjust your manner of speech to accommodate
me, Friend,” the bucolic extraterrestrial stated. “I am a telepath, and as for
those colloquialisms to which I cannot directly affix a meaning, I can still
trace your intent via your brain waves.”
“Oi, yer like me old China plate Yitzy, then!” Roben exclaimed.
“Well, yer face ain’t the same, of course. Yitzy, he’s got two loaves of bread.
One of them loaves of bread has three eyes and several ears on stalks, while
the other has four mouths what look like trumpets. Mind, I can’t tell if he has
lips. Now, Yitzy, he only uses his mouths fer drinkin’ and takin’ in air. He
only speaks by telepathy, whereas I can hear yer voice aloud, but it’s a right
puzzle, for I can’t see as you have a norf and souf anywhere, not even a slit
in yer dome. Forgive me, Mate, for I always was the sort ter go off on a
tangent when tryin’ ter figure out how new things Kathy Burke. They oughta
print out a card fer me what says ‘Robin Roberts, expert in Pointless Blather.’”
“Your observations are not pointless, for when you lace them
together you shall, at the least, obtain satisfice. However, my objective in
assisting you is to ensure that your noble mission is optimized for results
exceeding the projected outcome. Will you accept my offer of assistance?”
“Mate, if I’d a heartbeat in me chest, It would be doin’ a wee
jig of joy at the prospect of joinin’ forces with a sharp new ally. Now, afore
we get the dough on the toad, I feel that I oughta apologize ter you.”
“I am unsure why, as it seems that you and I are, as you
might say, hitting it off.”
“Well, it’s because I spent more’n a decade hatin’ your kind
‘cause one of yours stole Betsy away. At this point, I understand that you
Hoppin’ Pot think different than us Earth folk, an’ this Heap of Coke, well, ‘e
thought ‘e was ‘elpin Bets. I still ain’t none too pleased fer all the years of
sorrow I ‘ad, but I understand that this chap didn’t mean no harm. Hatin’ everyone
from any race or tribe or what have you ain’t right, and so that’s why I want
ter apologize.”
“If it would be acceptable, I would like to introduce you to
the scout who brought Betsy to us. He will understand if you would prefer not
to make his acquaintance, and I am not attempting to make excuses for his erroneous
actions. He was on his first scouting mission and did not take into account the
fact that Betsy, as an adolescent of your species, did not possess the wisdom
to agree to his proposal to separate her brain from her body in order to
alleviate her emotional distress. It was his desire to assist one from whom he
detected empathy and superior intellect.”
Acknowledgments
The Mi-Go or Fungi from Yuggoth are the creations of H.P. Lovecraft, appearing in his 1929 sonnet “Fungi from Yuggoth” and in his 1931 story, “The Shadow Out of Time.”
The Great Race of Yith is the creation of H.P. Lovecraft, initially appearing in his 1936 novella, The Shadow Out of Time.
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The Blurb
Geeky Gandy Stafford's lifelong fantasy comes true when he meets the otherworldly Dorma and Desyra. These last remnants of a botched extraterrestrial invasion discover that they require a great deal of energy to maintain their human forms.
The easiest way to obtain essential power?
Sex, and lots of it.
The Snippet
“We can benefit each other, Supreme Game Lord,” said Desyra.
“I... like I said, I’m not actually the Supreme anything.”
“But this is how you address yourself to encourage
yourself,” observed Dorma.
“Yeah. It’s dumb.”
The aliens ran their hands down Gandy’s body towards his
groin as they licked his neck.
“We can benefit one another,” Desyra repeated.
“We do not wish for the exchange of energy to be unpleasant,”
stated Dorma. “Do not fear, Lord Aleph. You will not be harmed.”
“You see, the energy consumed is taken in a fashion that the
host will find pleasant,” Desyra clarified. “If you agree, the exchange can
begin.”
Will Gandy agree?
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