Work-in-progress meme

[vinnie_tesla]

From erastes:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Wrongborn
The Troglodytes' Congress
The Immortal Seven

Goners
Display
Skeeters
The Always-On

Strange Enough
Amy Gets What She Wants

Name one of them and I'll give you a snippet from it and/or tell you something about it.

Comments

[erastes]

The Immortal Seven!

[vinnie_tesla]

The Immortal Seven is (always 'is,' never 'are') the secretive cabal behind the civil order of a city-state in the Samathic Confederation (the same setting as "Ota Discovers Fire"). The badge of office is a magic artifact, each of the seven is unique. Members are a little like secret police, and a little like superheroes. Their relationship to the artifacts is similarly ambiguous.

The story is largely clean ()-:), with the possible exception of some excerpts from the pulp pamphlets circulated in the seedier parts of town, featuring implausible speculations about the Immortal Seven's secret practices.

[erastes]

oh - sounds cool, thank you!

[mightyfastpig]

The Always-On

[vinnie_tesla]

That project has kind of foundered. It was gonna be a short-short for the Circlet website. An always-on is someone who keeps their augmented-reality goggles on all the time. I liked the characters, but I wasn't able to get the tone to work like I wanted. I'll let it sit on the back burner for a while and see if anything happens to it.

[najalaise]

Strange Enough. (What does it even mean for something to be sufficiently strange?!)

[vinnie_tesla]

You've actually already seen it, Naj. It's one of my stabs at producing Real Porn stories to sell to magazines. Still haven't actually sent this one out, though, though I do think it's pretty good.

Here's the intro:

I got a call from Angela the other day. She's an old friend from college. She's one of those nexuses--people who seem to know everybody, everywhere. She said: "Do you know Gina

[najalaise]

Oh right! I just didn't recognize the title. I do recall liking that one!