[General Battuta]

Up today on Beneath Ceaseless Skies, across from the stupefyingly cool Marie Brennan:

Worth of Crows

Death comes for her in the night, drawn by hypothermia, and she turns it away with an upraised hand. It lopes under the dancing sky, circling her, trampling the reflections of ten thousand stars.

You are mine, it says. You are mine four times over, now. Come with me.

Not yet, she says. Not yet. We made a bargain. My debt can still be repaid. I have the souls of crows to offer—

Death howls, and the moon shivers on its throne of starlight. You are past the worth of crows, Death says. You are past all hope. Come with me.

But she does not lower her hand.

Come to me again when I have killed the winter, she says. They say you are a patient thing. Be patient. I have work to do.

[StarSlayer]

New ttutafiction?



FIST PUMP!!




O Death

[Colonol Dekker]

I saw your Facebook link.






I think it needs more boob.

Aside from that, solid work :3

[achtung]

on tablet, will read

[Mika]

I'll comment about this one with a private message, but overall, I liked it. Just keep on doing what you're doing!

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Will read this in the train.

[achtung]

Very nice read. Read it when I woke up today, nice way to start it.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Nice read indeed. It touches a few things I like, most notably

Spoiler:

necromancy and deals with Death.

(not sure if I really need to put that in spoiler tags, but better safe than sorry)

[General Battuta]

damn son I actually got reviews from someone other than (the excellent, don't get me wrong) Lois Tilton

"The prose in Dickinson's story is impeccable--spare and yet beautiful all the same. The world the narrative takes place in is sketched so subtly that though the narrator doesn't tell us much about it at all, we feel like we know a lot anyway. Dickinson adheres admirably to the writers' axiom "Use all the best words, in the right order, without any unnecessary ones." It is one thing to pull that off when the setting is contemporary and you can assume a lot of shared reader knowledge, but to do it in a fantasy with a world as rich and unique as this is a triumph."

[swashmebuckle]

I really enjoyed it too. You've cut through the metaphorical fantasy cheese like, uh, like it was...literal cheese? Keep it up!

[MP-Ryan]

Very cleverly written.  Thoroughly enjoyed it.