Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

This week's prompt is:
charge 🔋

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used

I have it! Pixies!

Was just thinking this morning about a crucial world-building detail and then realized someone with powerful magic but profoundly silly could do the trick. I was pondering a wizard when I realize -- pixies! Pixies run the world! Zanily!

An Eye For Fractals: A Graphic And Photographic Essay by Michael McGuire

Fractals. Pictures, mathematics, descriptions. The Sierpinski triangle and how you can make it a bit random to make it look very like a stony cliff. The infinite border to a finite area. Dimensions. And more.

Of the story. They are doing quite innocuous things in quite innocuous circumstances, but I was having too many wizards and not enough reminders that this world has SF tropes in abundance. And mundane ones, too. I shall perhaps have some musketeers come through. Or knights.

The latest collection is out! Writing And Reflections, Volume 3

Details here:

https://writingandreflections.substack.com/p/its-here-its-here?r=17sx99&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The First Salute : View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. Tuchman

A view of the revolution from other countries. The Netherlands, which was not only a supplier of arms, but took shipments of arms from England to sell to the rebels. France. Spain. The maneuvers viewed from the British side. Cornwallis's failure to take bold action when penned in Yorktown and how he referred, for the first time, to General Washington rather than Mr. Washington in his letter explaining his surrender. How King George threatened to abdicate rather than allow peace -- and discovered it did not matter.

A few flaws here and there -- there was nothing magical about the end of the Middle Ages to explain the increase in ship voyages; that was the increased cost of spices owing to high taxes on the land route -- but overall interesting stuff.

 

 

This week's prompt is:
cool 🌬️

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies by Mary Hamilton

A number of tales, from legends to fairy tales, including several variants of most and explaining how she, as a story-teller, retells them, and how others retell them.