Author: LittleFears

Answer

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“So, why am I here?” asked Meria. “Why have I been stuck on this island for as long as I can remember?”

“Sometimes the dead and their ideas, hopes and dreams can live on in the world between the living and dead until they’re forgotten entirely,” replied Lucy.

“What’s that got to do with me?” asked Meria.

“Well, first of all, you’re dead,” replied Lucy. “Furthermore, you’ve been remembered for over fifty years for the murder of your mother.”

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Free course for the next five days, Start publishing on Medium.com

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Free course for the next five days, Start publishing on Medium.com. Linky: https://skl.sh/2N9RejV

Turns out the techy problems I was having uploading to Skillshare were account based not internet provider-based. We assumed it was a provider issue as it’s been blocking random things for months now. I’m not banned, I have no payout problems and nobodies sure why there’s an issue.

So I have a temporary new Skillshare teacher account that will hopefully be merged with my old account at some point.

As a tester, I put up a 30-odd minute course on getting started on Medium.com. For those that don’t know, it’s a publication platform focused on writing. It’s for fiction, news, opinion pieces, blogs and anything else you can write.

It has publications you can submit to, or create yourself. A buzzing community of writers and readers. You can even join the Medium partner program and earn a few quid from your writing.

If that sounds like something you’re interested in, hit the link below, skip anything that asks you for payment, and enrol in the class. Once enrolled, it’s free forever. So if you’re interested, get in there quick.

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If you find the course useful a good review would be stella. Cheers.

Cheers to Bruce, Badger, Kathy & Warren for the continued $10 Patronage. You can find me on Ko Fi, Patreon, Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare and Threadless.

Clue

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“Listen,” said Lucy. “You keep asking me why I’m here, have you ever wondered why you’re here? Do you even remember how you got here?”

“I…” stammered Meria, “I don’t know how I got here. I don’t know why I’m here.”

“Good grief,” chuckled Lucy. “It’s like watching Boris Johnson standing up in parliament.”

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Sharked

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“The sharks won’t let me off this island,” growled Meria. “Every time I try to leave they swarm around me. Tear me apart. Then I wake up in my bed, unharmed.”

“I’d say there’s something fishy about your story,” pondered Lucy. “But that’d be jumping the shark.”

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Wind

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“You’re able to leave this island?” gasped Meria. “How?”

“The next storm,” remarked Lucy. “I’ll simply turn to smoke and drift away on the wind.”

“During the last storm,” pondered Meria, “I’d been smoking local plants, and I was sure I saw a cow in the sky. Tumbling around in the wind.”

“Well, that’s a high steaks vision,” chuckled Lucy.

Arr, first week of September and I have a cold! That’s it! I’m not leaving the house for six months. Come back Scottish summer, all is forgiven!

OK, there’s no way I could, in good conscience, post this story without also posting the old pun-filled story, Cows with guns, by Dana Lyons.

Join the fight for bovine freedom, people!

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Getting serialized online fiction right?

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We’re into the last few weeks of the Black Sands series of stories. Have you been enjoying (or even noticed) the stories being strings of 5 tales creating weekly narratives, creating an even longer series narratives? Was it worth it?

I think so. From a writers and readers perspective, I think the entire series has had a better flow to it. Revisiting similar themes and characters on a rotation cemented the plot quite well. Keep it sparse and replace events with ideas and themes. You can step into the story at any point and know what’s going on. Even if you don’t notice the ongoing story, the daily tales make more sense on their own. This week was a minor exception, there.

I certainly haven’t seen the massive dip in readership that Brass caused. For those that weren’t here during Brass, it was a single story across four months worth of posts. Every day had an episode number. It developed an insane bounce rate where people were finding the Fears on episode 67 and leaving because they’d missed the story thus far. Online serialized fiction always has that effect.

In other news, the art & GIMP course I mentioned last week, has of course been delayed. I’m having a mare with Skillshare. My 4g home internet disagrees with random things. At the moment, it disagrees with the upload page to Skillshare. If I have no luck this week, I’ll be looking towards Udemy or Linda. I haven’t used either very much, so need to look into the pros and cons of both platforms. I’d like all the upcoming tutorial videos to be in one place. Not YouTube before anyone says it, haha.

As always, if you love what I do and you’d like to support the Fears in some way to keep the groaners coming, you can buy me a cupp on Ko Fi. Buy my art and merch on Etsy and Threadless. Buy one of my books on Amazon. Subscribe on Patreon for as little as $1 a month or take one of my well-rated courses on Skillshare.

A shout and cheers to Bruce, Badger, Kathy & Warren for the continued $10 Patronage.

Cheers, everyone. I hope you enjoy your weekend.

Zero

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“So is that for Sprites?” asked Parrotfish. “Their authors dead and social media has declared their childhood dead.”

“Many will remember Sprites fondly and the books still in circulation,” replied Cuttle. “They’ll be remembered and live on for generations.”

“Unlike the guy who wrote a book about zero before mathematics was invented,” remarked Jelly.

“I met him on the road to the afterlife,” remarked Cuttle. “I thanked him for nothing.”

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Twittered

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Two more dead Sprites washed ashore beside them and sunk into the black sands. “Look,” sighed Parrotfish, swiping through the tweets about the author who created Sprites passing.

The trio gasped as they saw tweet after tweet from humans announcing the deaths of their childhoods. “That’ll do it,” lamented Cuttle.

“Why are humans so eager to kill off what they once loved,” asked Jelly.

Puns return tomorrow. I just wanted a wee bit of character progression this week.

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Repeat

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“Famed children’s picturebook author dies,” read Cuttle. “It looks like Sprites creator has passed away.”

“So, how come so many Sprites are washing ashore and dying?” asked Jelly. “Surely if we’re humans hopes, dreams and ideas, the Sprites should be living on here. Civilization doesn’t just forget something overnight.”

“The way human history repeats itself,” pondered Cuttle, “I’m not so sure about that.”

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Trends

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The trio watched another Sprite emerge from the ocean, let out a cry for help, before immediately sinking into the black sands.

“I saw Sprites trending on Twitter this morning,” remarked Cuttle.

“I’ve had enough of social media,” pondered Parrotfish. “I’m on a social media detox at the moment.”

“Fair enough,” replied Jelly. “What do folks on Twitter think about that?”

“I dunno,” replied Parrotfish, pulling their phone out and opening the app.

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