I cannot counsel that enough. Let Sleeping Djinni Lie. Wishes are dangerous.
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11/04/2024 NotAWriMo, BANSHEE BEACH: 288/55713
Yeah, I’m really tired. Up too late, up too early, going to bed early tonight and sleeping in.
I wasn’t really surprised when the knock on the hotel door came, except that it took so long. I hadn’t been joking when I told Lucas that trouble followed guys like me around. Heck, this time it had even waited until I had gotten a glass of wine around me. Wine! It really was a vacation.
So it was with only a little bit of an eye-roll that I got up to answer. “Look, compadre,” I started saying as I opened the door, “whatever you’re up to down here, it’s nothing to do with me—”
And that’s when the gal tried to slap a mickey on me.
Patreon Microfiction: Ain’t Your Business.
He provides a necessary and valuable service for the community. He does not overcharge for his services. He is scrupulous in adhering to local law, customs, and moral codes. So, indeed, what he does with the fruits probably Ain’t Your Business.
The October Patreon stuff is up!
Yes, we are going a bit early today. As the poet said: “Prepare the viands, prepare the foods, prepare the strange wines, for tonight is indeed a great night!”
…Well, hopefully nothing so dramatic as what happened after, but still.
Behold!
- Short Story: The Goblin. Fair warning: it’s both short, and fairly horrible. I’m not really sorry about either.
- RPG Material: The Cunning Land: Introduction. This is the start of the new project. I wanted to see if I could fit the entire premise of the game world in a children’s poem. Let me know if it worked!
- Poem: Halloween 2024. Just for fun.
#commissionearned
My Halloween poem is up on Patreon!
Public, so everybody can see it. I forgot to do one last year, apparently. Don’t know what I was thinking, or not thinking…
Anyway, Happy (almost) Halloween!
Check your Patreon status.
This isn’t a nag at people to fix their credit card information, just a reminder that if your card gets declined you’ll end up not seeing the paid stuff at my Patreon. Or possibly not even the free stuff. I’m never going to give anybody grief for ending their support for me here, but if it’s just that something technical happened with a credit card expiration or something, well…
PS: You can tell your friends about my Patreon, mind you. It is, as they say, allowed.
Patreon Microfiction: Beneath Their Notice.
“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.” The conceit of “Beneath Their Notice” is that the grass has an opinion about that. And possibly even a response.
THE GOBLIN is now available on Patreon for free members.
I’m trying to sweeten the pot, get some signups that way. THE GOBLIN was recently made available for people with paid memberships; this is the free-membership version. Check it out, and you don’t need to tell me that the protagonist is at least mildly awful. I wrote him to be that way.
Tweet of the Day, I Am Not Accommodating iOS On My Patreon edition.
Short version is: part of the change on this is that Patreon is doing a mandatory switch to a subscription billing model, instead of first-of-the-month billing. I don’t expect to get any new readers from Apple products anyway; my readers seem indifferent to the proposed change; and every time something does change in this sort of thing, somebody unsubscribes*. It’s not in my best interests to mess with the status quo, in other words.
So no thanks.
Starting 11/1, if you purchase a Patreon membership or show from our Patreon store through the iOS app, Apple will charge you a 30% fee. This fee will not affect members who join 10/31 or earlier. We recommend using a different app/platform to make purchases starting 11/1. pic.twitter.com/le8leCmWRa
— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) October 21, 2024
*Yeah, I know the last two points come across as contradictory. They’re also both true. Sue me.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Up Above.’
‘Up Above’ would have been an interesting novel for me to have written, twenty years ago. Oh, well, I was kind of busy at the time. Besides, twenty years ago I wasn’t as good a writer.