New Poem And I Will Sing for Your Father

I have finished the first nine prompts in my new writing project, now titled “Lillia’s Tale”. They are short little things 100-400 words each, but they are a start. They are set in the same storyverse as Ari’s Tale.

1. Beginnings 2. Middles 3. Endings 4. Insides 5. Outsides 6. Hours 7. Days 8. Weeks 9. Months

Put Told On A Friday on hiatus and have begun a new writing project over here. Updates to my new and hopefully cathartic project will be included in my update feed here and my Twitter, too.

Taking this time of year to draw attention to two of my older stories, both written last year around the holidays.

The Hidden Properties of Fruitcake
(1) (2)
~ An Epiphany Story

The Yearlings
~ A New Years Story

I really love both of these pieces and hope you do, too.

Burgess Gulch (6)
Genre:Sci-fi/Western
Word Count:5,350
Rating:10+
Summary: Things around Burgess Gulch continue to get more and more perplexing.
Author’s Note: This began as my 2006 Nanowrimo Novel.

Previous Parts (1) (2) (3) (4) (5).

Burgess Gulch (5)
Genre:Sci-fi/Western
Word Count:2,115
Rating:10+
Summary: Burgess Gulch gets a mighty strange visitor.
Author’s Note: This began as my 2006 Nanowrimo Novel.

Previous Parts (1) (2) (3) (4).

* I kind of dropped out for a while there. I did continue my Nano novel, but it became very slow going and I finished the month with about 18,000 words….
* Just prior to the madness that is Nano season, I participated in a cooperative writing thing over at Write Anything. It was posted on the site during the last week of November. Below is a link to the story, Lost On Earth on Write Anything as well as one for the e-book version on Scribd.
Lost On Earth in chapters
Lost On Earth the e-book
* As I wrote at the end of October, I kind of abandoned my serials while getting ready for Nanowrimo… I do intend to try and put a bit more of each of them up over the next month before putting them on hiatus and restarting The Golden Apple Tales, Travis Keller (Not So Super Hero), Brave the Arid Ocean and Spirals in January.

So, being that it’s October (Again? Didn’t we do this like a year ago?) my Dear Son has a cough. And, as with most children, the cough is worst overnight and into the early morning, which makes for less than restful night for him. So, like countless parents on countless nights, I give him cough/sniffle medicine to enable him to breathe and possibly sleep.

Having the annual head-chest cold season start off, got me thinking about something I read the other day. Recently, the FDA decided to review the use of over the counter cold medicines in children. Go read the link quick and come back, okay. If it’s bad, I copied it at the bottom of the post, so scroll down. Go on now. Shoo.

*files nails and contemplates navel*

On Cold Medicines and the FDA

Burgess Gulch (4)
Genre:Sci-fi/Western
Word Count:2,001
Rating:10+
Summary: A resident of Burgess Gulch goes missing and Cody is about the onliest person to notice, until it happens again.
Author’s Note: This began as my 2006 Nanowrimo Novel.

Previous Parts (1) (2) (3).

The Way About Her (Bent 3)
Genre:Fantasy
Word Count:2,145
Rating:teen
Muse:Tiresias
Warning:Cussing
Summary:Lauren juggles playing Portia’s boyfriend with being her sister, and another visit to Hera Lake makes Lauren wonder how hopeless her situation is.

Previous Parts (1) (2)