bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: "Using a high-powered rifle you take down a gazelle they can scarcely see. To them, the rifle would be incomprehensible. Killing at such a distance and with no effort would be supernatural.” “So, you’re saying that Scarlett is a time traveler?”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ink in a Black Sea: “It’s called Nös. The language, I mean,” Reklin had said. “No one can speak it in full anymore. Well, no one but true descendants of Cimbrea, like the queen.”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnip From Amaranth: Across the square from Stella, a group of dirty men with calloused hands and overalls gathered. Workers, bussed out of the slums during shift hours for construction labor, digging ditches, tending landscapes, or going down into sewage pipes.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Amaranth: The Black City stood at the end of the Grimling Road, that lonely path through the Otherworld all dead were bound to walk. The gates in its outer wall would never close, they said, until the last living thing in all worlds had passed through them.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: “Quite a few things, actually. Medicines and new medical techniques, various technologies. Predominantly in this facility, we research ways to help a very particular individual, and provide that help to this individual when needed.”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Heart: Sure, she was smart enough too. Devoted to her studies, always completing tests or assignments in the top five percent. But while she was on the high end of good as a pilot, there were still a million other pilots just like her.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Amaranth: The captain lifted his voice even louder, his lip curling. “This cull has already been punished as a thief. Now she steals again! This time she took knowledge and skill that belongs to her betters! Your betters!”

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bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: A young man, nineteen or twenty, headed his way, appeared between the RVs. He slouched behind dark sunglasses and an oversized straw hat, a too-big red Hawaiian shirt flapping over a tank top. A battered brown case hung from a white-knuckled fist.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: “Hey, I'm paying, I choose. Burgers. Great big meaty artery-clogging burgers dripping with ketchup, slathered with tomatoes and avocado. Your childhood favorite as I recall, Mr. Tofu and Wheat Grass. Take a break. Have some fun.”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Amaranth: The florist overbalanced and spilled, dropping the cart onto its side. Aerro turned to his aid, but the florist gaped instead at his wares. Roots sprang out of every cut end, new leaves unfolding, buds popping out alongside the original blooms.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Amaranth (no 'movement' so used 'removed' instead): “Light, the only time they leave their room is to eat. Anyone goes near them other than me with their order, and that Stella glares them off like she’d be willing to remove baby makers with her teeth.”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Heart: The rakir were about to arrive at the fortified position codenamed *Ragnarok*. It was only two hours flight from there to Sol, and where the Goats had dropped the penultimate pebble in their path of jump gates that lead back to Nakira.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: He trailed behind, screaming every curse that would come to him. He even made some up. The depth of his fury was almost surreal. Laura wondered which he would drop dead from first—a coronary or heat exhaustion—and just how long it would take.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Heart: Haleh Golpari had a spark in her eyes, a defiance, as if she took every interaction- no matter how innocent- as a precursor to a fist fight. She measured Parry, chin lifting as she steeled herself for this imagined confrontation.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: Dirty looks assailed him from all sides, including the three nice chickens he’d been chatting with just before the show started. Verdant, however, seemed untroubled. In fact, she smiled. “Ah, what a perverse generation! Always wanting proof!”

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ferry Tail: "No fighting, cussing, or dripping monster heads on my floor. Not on my beds either. And if a dragon, ogre, troll, or giant is chasing you, you will run *away* from the inn, is that understood?"

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ferry Tail: Magic crackles through the air as Eugenia stumbles into Lysette, one arm flinging out to block her from the spell. A flash, and Lysette gasps and drops to her knees. There on the ground wobbles a little, fat, brown, and very drunk slug.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From Ferry Tail: As well, dear Reader, lest you have forgotten: what Eugenia had clasped in her fist before dropping it back in her pocket was—and is, point of fact—her broomstick.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From So My Grandma Summoned A Demon: The latter was meant to look like gold, but only did if you stood really far away and squinted. Otherwise, it looked like what it was—a cheap costume brooch someone had spray-painted with yellow metallic paint.

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#Wipsnips bsky.app/profile/mela...

Just realized I didn't actually tag WipSnips in these, so...tag! #Wipsnips bsky.app/profile/mela...

bsky.app/profile/wips... From SMGSAD: The light obscured anything farther than five steps in either direction, enveloping everything almost as a fog. They reached a second small terrace, which floated in the center of a brilliant white and occasionally billowy void exactly like islands didn’t.

bsky.app/profile/wips... From Amaranth: *It’s herding them.* Aerro tried to pull all the speed he could from his legs as they neared another small bridge across the Kingsblood. Past it, only the rocky path leading across a field and uphill remained between them and the Stoneguard.

bsky.app/profile/wips... From Amaranth: She fired again, this time at the captain’s face as he spun her way. Missed. His own pistol came out. Fired. A bucket hanging on the shack behind her splintered and vomited water.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Amaranth: The village sat in the shadow of these hilltop ruins, dark forest frothing up the purple, snow-frosted Cascading Mountains behind it. The Kingsblood River poured in a continuous rush from somewhere in the base of the Stoneguard.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From SMGSAD: When a five year old Larson first came into the trailer, his grandfather’s hard hand gripping his shoulder, there she’d been. Sitting in that chair with a threadbare blue robe on, a flowery long flannel nightgown, white socks, and bear paw slippers.

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From Ink in a Black Sea: They bear-hug the mare around both head and neck. One slips a leather loop o’er her horn and uses his foot to pin the other end to the floor. He thinks this is clever, but when she heaves the strap tears upward and sends him flailing.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ink in a Black Sea (of course): There might be no roe in this devil, but there was still plenty of valuable meat and ink glands that needed hauling out and loading up before they spoiled in the afternoon heat.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips Redux of 'swift' because I love this line: From Ferry Tail: Lysette learns quite swiftly that while she is lukewarm to flying in general, she absolutely hates flying with a witch sporting an incredible hangover.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Heart: Silver Girl was already in pre-flight when Angel reached her, Sunshine and two others clearing over the checks with swift efficiency. Sunshine met her at the ladder and took her helmet, allowing Angel to climb up and slide into the pit.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ink in a Black Sea: The great stone wall on Mire’s northern end, holding back the worst of the thorns, stood four times as high. Even so, the brambles curled over it, looming like a forest of skeletal fingers ready to clench its fist and crush the village.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Mind: Ray felt absorbed, as if she fell into a thick inviting goo and slowly sank into it. She understood everything. She remembered everything. The black pit of the first four years of her life vanished and she remembered- she *remembered…*

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From Amaranth: People were screaming now, not just shouting in confusion. More crewmen plunged into compartments through the portal of thorns and vine, daggers and short blades in hand, shedding leaves and damp with sap.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From The Human Heart: More, she had perfected the art of watching while she herself was completely unobserved. She couldn’t actually turn invisible, but she had the skill of being unnoticeable, and for her purposes that generally equated to the same thing.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Ferry Tail: Lysette forgets herself and drops the terrier, rushing to help Eugenia up from her flurry of black skirts. Fortunately, the others are far too shocked to take note, clucking at each other like alarmed chickens.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: Motion caught her eye, and she lifted her brows as she saw Ralph shaking his head. “Do you disagree?” “No. I mean, not entirely. I fully agree that this all stinks of Cromwell, sure. But the obvious isn't always the answer."

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips Also Scarlett: She didn't make it far. She could see neither of their faces, but as she slapped at this one her fingers tangled in a rough gnarl of beard. She yanked, and his curse faded away with most of the world in the echo of his fist breaking her cheek.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips It seemed fitting to put up a quote from Scarlett today: Veins stood out on the guy’s forehead, purple joining the red in his face. His hands were fists, the kind that wanted to play—that mean sort of play that was only satisfied if someone ended up bleeding.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From SMGSAD: There was a difference—arguably nuanced, that was true—between eavesdropping and gathering intel, but Addy bit her tongue against it. It wasn’t the conversation to be having right now, and she wanted to know what he’d overheard.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: The convertible started with a bellow. "Laura!" She let off two more shots before darting around the car. She didn’t bother opening it, but leapt the door with practiced ease, dropping in back with the other two. “Go!”

I have nothing in any of my WIPs for 'award', which is the WOTD for Wipsnips, so instead, here's the opening line of Amaranth, coming out (fingers crossed) around February: The dead man reminded Aerro of his father, though he couldn’t say for certain just why.

Ferry Tail: Ferry Tail is a comedy set in a world of witches, princes, castles and magic spells. Eugenia Sackhat is a witch who desperately wants to be wicked. For some reason, to accomplish this, she must rescue a maiden in a tower. To avoid becoming the hero, she hires a middle prince instead.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From SMGSAD: It was the kind of hand that swallowed everything it held—car keys, forks, small children. It clutched a small piece of paper, which he held pinched between a thumb and forefinger, peering at it like a giant trying to read a novel sized for ants.

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bsky.app/profile/wips... #WipSnips From Amaranth: When the coppers had broken her hands, between each finger they had made her confess. Not just that she was a thief (she wasn't) but that she was unworthy, undeserving, selfish, stupid, and worst of all—the absolute worst of all—grateful.

bsky.app/profile/wips... #Wipsnips From Scarlett: In the truck’s cab, the asshole still hunted for his phone. His battered blue jeans drooped off his hips and even from here the pasty half-moon he flashed to the world was far too clear. The truck’s front tires puddled like deflated beach balls.