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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)

The restless one has returned. Taryn laughs with her cousin’s former apprentices, swings her kit-bag to one shoulder, greets one and all as she walks down the Heart-Ring corridor with the swagger-and-sway, the bouncing steps, of someone who’s used to … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

“So on Karis, I’d be Jehen Outlander,” Jehen said. “Oh no, you’d be Jehen whatever-your-epithet-is. Sarronny’s different.” “Why?” Yasmin asked. Mavra smiled, as if she’d been waiting for that question. “You know about the Revolt, and the Treaty–that’s why. We’re … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)

Downbelow, the Inhabitants make music in the infrared, and I bathe my own inhabitants (those lower-case, the Humans) in subtle movements of warmth. I wear my history, in the constant circulation of signals, in the minute dents in the hull; … Continue reading

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

My day, or rather, my Day, is counted differently now that I am no longer mortal, or rather, embodied in a mortal frame.

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

Sick with a spring cold and/or allergies, and still struggling with nonfiction writing. So instead, another fictional excerpt which is more than a propos to some of our current questions. *** Love is atmosphere, it’s safety, it’s the circle within … Continue reading

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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)

I am Naime-Martisset yr Astok. My parents and their marriage-patron are long dead, as am I. I persist now as a memory, one of the Ship’s-Hearts, though it’s no longer a ship, really, but … that’s another story. Too long … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 June 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Early on, my half-brother and half-sister and I formed a triad for dancing. The Second Prime is the number of music, for there is the drum, the dance, and the song, the trinity that flows between the dancers as the … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 25 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 11 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

It wouldn’t be for at least a year (an eternity at seventeen and eighteen) that the rota would come round to pair us, if it ever did , so I took matters into my own hands, and invited Jehen on … Continue reading

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