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Any fiction writers here?

Eternity Times, April 43 rd

After assisting for a mere four millennia at his noble work of collecting souls, our Hades office reports that young Mr. Thanatos, lately fulfilling the office of collector of souls and debt agent, has been lost to us in a motor accident off a country road in New Hampshire. He is survived by parents Nyx and Erebus, and his numerous siblings, notably Oneiroi, Nemesis, and his twin Hypnos. We received a letter from the Horse Guards of the Armageddon Plain lamenting the loss of “one whom we called Pale; signed Famine, War, and Conquest aka Pestilence,” saying “he will be missed by us all.”


This article went on for twenty-seven fireproof pages plus an opinion editorial as a supplement for Limbo residents, running eighteen pages as they had an eternity to read it in, but mention of an obituary was curiously absent.
Pushing up his goggles the youth splashed about wildly in the water. His duster was waterlogged and a poor friend in the deep tow of the current. He wriggled out of it, watching it swirl away downstream. Watching it go down, he realized it had been a while since he swam, and his shoes, cardigan, tie, and shirt soon followed it. (The traditional cloak would have been in keeping with his office, but he would have been too conspicuous; every day he lamented that fateful day in 1903 the magazines said cloaks were out of date. Then he remembered that
somehow, that particular life, or more precisely that existence, was no longer his.)
Twenty feet upstream the car lay upside down in the middle of the river, water hissing against hot iron. There were planks all over the place, a plentitude of planks, and none of them were intact. A glance showed that the water had extinguished his inverted torch, and the scythe had probably gone downstream by now. Worst of all, he was entirely covered with flesh, and in the pink of health. He looked up to see the three men from the college sitting at the riverside with their sketchbooks, frozen with shock.
“Hello up there!”
“Good heavens, man, you’re alive!”
“Yes—I seem to have lost most of my clothes. Anyone have a spare set?”
“But of course—here in this Gladstone bag—we’ll clear out; come on men,
let’s give him ten minutes; we’re just glad you were not killed!” And they scrambled up the bank, their large tenured stomachs jiggling.
The youth had retained his pants but those were soaked, so he simply put on another shirt and decided to call it good, though he did dry his face and hair in a sweater, which he then rolled up and put back in the bag.
The men came back down the bank.
“We can’t believe it. We’ll have a team of mules here tomorrow to haul away the car and see what can be done with it. There is an excellent garageman round the next town over who might like it for spare parts.”
“Never mind the car,” he said distracted, “something is horribly wrong.” And he ran for the high ground and the turnpike.
“He’s unlucky in love,” declared one of them, of a poetical bend.
“No, no, Doctor Cunningham; he’s simply of the idle rich and this was his first brush with both reality and gravity.”
“Is that from Marx again? You always quote Marx; I just wanted to do a sketch of the landscape. But I wish we had sketched him—he looked like a—“

“Like a Greek god,” finished the poet.
“Just call me Than. No, really, just call me Than. It—I promise it isn’t short for anything really. Than. Than. Than-k you very much. Than Thanson. No, that will never fly--too like--like a Norwegian. Try it brighter, happier—Just call me Than!” He kept running until safely out of sight of other people (how blasphemous that seemed! Other people—the idea! He had been a demigod, for Zeus’ sake) and leapt nimbly up the rocks on the side of the railroad embankment, running up to the top like a deer, shouting with joy and an abandon previously only seen in Pan, for whom he had once held a snobbish disregard. He saw before him the perfection of a youth in the peak of manhood, a paragon of excellence, and was terrified. The world round him seemed nice.

No, it seemed very nice.

So he did the logical thing and stepped on a bug.

The bug got up and brushed itself off and kept right on going, perhaps a bit offended, or perhaps upset that it wouldn’t be able to cash in its life-insurance policy.

And he looked up and realized that now nothing more could ever die. Death had died, and brought Thanatos to life as an individual, as someone who could—
“I’ve done it!” he cried aloud; “I’ve solved mortality!” He stood astride the railroad embankment in the moment of penultimate vitality of a New England day in April.

“Mortality!” echoed back the hills, “-tality, -tality-tality-talitytalitytality-and he looked up not into the beckoning beams of his colleague Helios, but the incandescent glare of the headlight on the 5:15 accomodation, running late and trying to make up lost time. A sudden clang like being knocked down with a shovel, and a short shock--then the keening of the Westinghouse air-brakes as the train went into emergency.
Eternity Times, Juvember 75 th :
DEATH BACK ON THE JOB; INFERNAL HOUSING MARKET IN ASCENDANCE
The housing markets in Seven Circles and Brimstone Lane have been heating up again,
there is now a fresh supply of new tenants looking for long-term lease. Our agent, the
indefatigable young Mr. Thanatos, appears to have undergone briefly a “near-life”
experience, but he does not let this bother him as he is back on the route, keeping old
Mr. Charon busy down there at the boat landing with plenty of passengers.


--The crew fought their train to a stop a quarter mile later, but the engineer never found anybody splattered across the front of the pilot beam. The professors packed up their picnic, waddled back to the main road, and arrived fifteen minutes late that evening. Doctor Cunningham wondered the longest, but the thoughts went away the moment he saw a student he hadn't asked yet--
"Have you read Marx?"
"Yuh, I have red marks, must be the chairs."
So they continued on, unknowing that the world’s brief dalliance with immortality was over and thinking the whole thing had been a figment of the imagination, which is all a Greek myth really is. Death had died, and then died again, and so will I, and so will you. Double negatives don’t make no positives.
 
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I write fiction and poetry both. I have done so since I was a child and just published a book on Amazon titled "Love and the Multiverse".

I started writing again recently after a several years break because of my motivations for writing changing. I used to write because I was sad or angry. It helped me to express emotion in a more rational and tangible way.

I still write for those reasons but after working on my digital media production degree I also just love building world's. I love being able to take a thought and make it alive or take a struggle I'm having and see myself, through my characters, resolve it. It helps me see the forest for the trees.

It also helps me wrestle with issues I deal with and make analogies with my characters to express those thoughts in a way my speech won't allow me to.
 
I also just love building world's. I love being able to take a thought and make it alive or take a struggle I'm having and see myself, through my characters, resolve it. It helps me see the forest for the trees.

It also helps me wrestle with issues I deal with and make analogies with my characters to express those thoughts in a way my speech won't allow me to.
World building is a great way to play around with ideas about "what could be."

As to resolving own issues through the characters, I do the same. Was told once it's the same kids do when they play and process things they don't fully understand yet enough to express any other way, and a very healthy way of dealing with things. Glad to read I'm not the only one who does it.
 
Anybody else's work have so many subtle interconnected crossovers that the story work mainframe looks like a mycelium gone rogue?

It is one of my favourite foundation building tools, the linear but subtle accuracy of archetypal iconography and linguistics that have become cannon for a body of work. That interconnectedness saved my senior thesis from being stolen by an underclassman.

Never mess with an autistic's deep dive special interest. One of the few things that truly matters. The accumulated body of work will be wielded like a hammer brought down without mercy.

I'm never one to cause a scene. I hate drama and confrontation, but in this case I went for the jugular, an accusation of plagiarism in front of a significant percentage of the English department at the annual student poetry slam. It was a charge that was proven beyond all doubt because of my syntax and glass rabbit dialect, but also by the sheer volume of work both for and aft of the contested works that proved the stolen work was, indeed, mine. The underclassman was expelled for cheating.

I tell stories in complex verse, but I also do paranormal historical fantasy as well. The overlap between my Strangeways and the Darkkin Chronicles are subtle, but as with any series, readers familiar with it will find the connections.

A couple of things I've learned along the way battle sequences are a bit like a dance, timing is everything. Choreography definitely helps. The close range one to one sequences, not so much, those are straight up off the cuff improvisation. Dragon physics are also a bit complicated.
 
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Good thing you could set things right with your work! I had an acquaintance who was accused of plagiarism. She had many of us who had read her work from the first word on (she liked to share) and the person who accused her lived in a neighboring country at a time when people didn't share much of anything online. In the end my acquaintance had to withdraw her submission (it was for some kind of contest, and too late for her to submit something else).

I tell stories in complex verse, but I also do paranormal historical fantasy as well. The overlap between my Strangeways and the Darkkin Chronicles are subtle, but as with any series, readers familiar with it will find the connections.

A couple of things I've learned along the way battle sequences are a bit like a dance, timing is everything. Choreography definitely helps. The close range one to one sequences, not so much, those are straight up off the cuff improvisation. Dragon physics are also a bit complicated.
Paranormal historical fantasy sounds intriguing. I write speculative fiction, and by accident created a world that is far too complex to explain in one single story. Now I'm doing a series, though the main characters keep changing.

Battle sequences need to make sense, tactics and strategies play a big role here. One-on-one fights are more spontaneous, and you can easily have one party win it by sheer luck, and nobody would complain about it.
 
Not sure if it counts, but I write plots/quest chains for the RPG I'm building. I don't write anything else these days (I'm dyslexic and struggle a bit with the actual writing process), but it's a nice break from programming/art sometimes. Although if anyone wants to write quest chains/dialogue for me, let me know! :D I'm in awe of people that can just churn out pages and pages of writing at will. It's a skill I will never possess!
 
Although if anyone wants to write quest chains/dialogue for me, let me know!
Interesting as this offer sounds, but my forte is inventing, not writing. So if you need ideas, I could give it a try. If you need actual.writing, then we're in the same boat.
 

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