Kit BashirYou know that alley behind the train station? Doesn’t get much exposure to road traffic, but cyclists, pedestrians and transit users appreciate it. The coffee kiosk does a steady trade year round. The only other business in the laneway is a timeshare; sometimes it’s a jeweler, at others a pawnshop or a dry cleaner. Yes /those/ kind of establishments, variable in time and space; they rotate in and out of our continuum every two days. The changeover is always at 9:57pm, for some reason. Nobody knows (or tells) where they go besides here-now. I’ll let you know if I get back; I’m hanging up now and putting my phone on stowaway mode. Luv ya.
Tuftears@Unixbigot Well, that's a marvelous story opener, hopefully this person's fate won't be too dire. 😹
Kelkyag@Tuftears @Unixbigot
Oh, very, but it doesn't feel like one that can be wrapped up in a satisfying way in a few more short segments.
Oh, very, but it doesn't feel like one that can be wrapped up in a satisfying way in a few more short segments.
@kelkyag @Unixbigot I think it could be done in a few segments, maybe 3-4? Anyway give 10 science fiction writers a prompt and you'll get 11 stories. ^.^
Seeing different writers' takes on the same prompt is also a delight.
Continuing on an intro isn't the same as working from the same prompt, though. I don't know that Kit wants to invite people to add on to her story start tumblr-style.
Or perhaps the the intent is that the narrator never returns, and whomever they were addressing (and we the readers) never find out what happened to them.
@Unixbigot @Tuftears
Note to self: figure out how to include tootfics I want to see more of in Kit's power-on-self-test messages. ☕ 🪧 🤞 💖
Note to self: figure out how to include tootfics I want to see more of in Kit's power-on-self-test messages. ☕ 🪧 🤞 💖
@kelkyag @Unixbigot My impression is most muses are contrary beasts, like cats, and are difficult to herd to any specific place. ^.^
@Unixbigot @kelkyag ... legit but I thought the writer got the cookies, not the Muse 😹
@Unixbigot @kelkyag Ahahaha. 😹