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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Hell, yeah! Vicky is fiercely protective of Nathan, her partner. If anything she's overprotective.

If anyone has the temerity to threaten him when she’s around they run the risk of immolation.

She’s pretty quick on the draw and instinctively resorts to hurling fireballs at anyone foolish enough to get between her and her man.

For Vicky killing it with fire isn’t a tactic of last resort.

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.

Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.

Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.

Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919

#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity

#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.

Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919

#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity

#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.

Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919

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#PennedPossibilities⁩ 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

This is an interesting question. In my experience most people would protect others from danger if they could - and if they recognise the situation. In my book (and honestly LOTS of other books) there is no physical danger, apart from maybe a scared pony. The danger Lucy faces and is almost destroyed by is not recognised by others so she has to deal with it all by herself.

#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Funny you should ask. Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a story where a secondary character and a main character switch off being narrator for a novel in a series. Trying to be spoiler-free, the mainline novel has a deadly moment where the SC jumps in to protect the MC in a rather uncharacteristically brave fashion, saving the MC's life whilst being injured badly herself. In the current novel, that same character instead as the MC is surprised to find herself protected in the aftermath of the equivalent of a shootout with the police, then finds herself unexpectedly whisked away to safety at great personal risk to the SC, saving the MC from a life of incarceration.

So… double-yes. Both characters really hate seeing people get the short end of the stick. Situationally, they will do the right thing, thought one is arguably brave and the other generally a coward (in other words, a normal person).

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Funny you should ask. Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a story where a secondary character and a main character switch off being narrator for a novel in a series. Trying to be spoiler-free, the mainline novel has a deadly moment where the SC jumps in to protect the MC in a rather uncharacteristically brave fashion, saving the MC's life whilst being injured badly herself. In the current novel, that same character instead as the MC is surprised to find herself protected in the aftermath of the equivalent of a shootout with the police, then finds herself unexpectedly whisked away to safety at great personal risk to the SC, saving the MC from a life of incarceration.

So… double-yes. Both characters really hate seeing people get the short end of the stick. Situationally, they will do the right thing, thought one is arguably brave and the other generally a coward (in other words, a normal person).

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Funny you should ask. Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a story where a secondary character and a main character switch off being narrator for a novel in a series. Trying to be spoiler-free, the mainline novel has a deadly moment where the SC jumps in to protect the MC in a rather uncharacteristically brave fashion, saving the MC's life whilst being injured badly herself. In the current novel, that same character instead as the MC is surprised to find herself protected in the aftermath of the equivalent of a shootout with the police, then finds herself unexpectedly whisked away to safety at great personal risk to the SC, saving the MC from a life of incarceration.

So… double-yes. Both characters really hate seeing people get the short end of the stick. Situationally, they will do the right thing, thought one is arguably brave and the other generally a coward (in other words, a normal person).

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Funny you should ask. Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a story where a secondary character and a main character switch off being narrator for a novel in a series. Trying to be spoiler-free, the mainline novel has a deadly moment where the SC jumps in to protect the MC in a rather uncharacteristically brave fashion, saving the MC's life whilst being injured badly herself. In the current novel, that same character instead as the MC is surprised to find herself protected in the aftermath of the equivalent of a shootout with the police, then finds herself unexpectedly whisked away to safety at great personal risk to the SC, saving the MC from a life of incarceration.

So… double-yes. Both characters really hate seeing people get the short end of the stick. Situationally, they will do the right thing, thought one is arguably brave and the other generally a coward (in other words, a normal person).

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Funny you should ask. Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a story where a secondary character and a main character switch off being narrator for a novel in a series. Trying to be spoiler-free, the mainline novel has a deadly moment where the SC jumps in to protect the MC in a rather uncharacteristically brave fashion, saving the MC's life whilst being injured badly herself. In the current novel, that same character instead as the MC is surprised to find herself protected in the aftermath of the equivalent of a shootout with the police, then finds herself unexpectedly whisked away to safety at great personal risk to the SC, saving the MC from a life of incarceration.

So… double-yes. Both characters really hate seeing people get the short end of the stick. Situationally, they will do the right thing, thought one is arguably brave and the other generally a coward (in other words, a normal person).

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⁨#PennedPossibilities⁩ 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

They do all the time.

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

Klein would reverently stay out of Medb's way and coup-de-grâce anyone that managed to not die on contact from the wrath of his goddess. (Medb is working on talking him down from the whole worshiping her as a deity. it just makes her a tab anxious to be venerated by someone who's brother she killed during a hunger frenzy) That is to say he would absolutely have her covered if she somehow were not in a position to rectify the situation.

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#PennedPossibilities 1014 — If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

100000000 percent, yes. Always. Hati (SC) and Alistair (MC) are ancient, caring friends. And they would die for each other, so the feeling *is* returned. They would *both* do whatever is necessary to keep the other one safe. Whoever said vampires and werewolves couldn’t be friends? Screw them.

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Here's my announcement to anyone in our lovely #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #WordWeavers #PennedPossibilities who might be interested, that on this new blog I'll be recording progress and thoughts etc. on the new novel I'm about to start writing. I'll link below to today's entry, which is my second on the blog but I doubt I'll be doing it strictly weekly as we go along because I don't intend to impose that pressure on myself. So:

https://davidbridgerwip.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/my-new-work-timetable/

#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

[Bolt:] Okay. figured ya didn't mean in the country, a different country area other than where I was born, so I had to look it up, then had to ask someone. A pretty-out there question, this one! Learnt there're a few autonomous regions that get to have different customs, different laws, and different money systems, but there's no other place completely, separately ruled by anyone other than Rainy Days. There's a reason why her title is Director of Home (our world) and the Nine Outer Worlds (because there are nine others, but none like home). Now that I've learnt that "Nine Outer Worlds" actually means nine other places beyond the stars that people live and ya can walk through an Interstellar gateway to go there, I'd like to walk through one of them daemon-worked miracle gateways, to see a sky different from ours, at least once. Since Boss Mead's syndicate doesn't extend beyond Home City, I probably won't be allowed, though.

[Bolt's a bit of a country bumpkin who ended up in the big city against her will. But she's right, there are no nation states, and though Rainy Days delegates much of her authority, that sometimes backfires to the extent that wars break out (like the one she started in Reluctant Moon), she technically rules ten worlds, mostly colonies on Mars-like worlds where people live under domes, and two hollowed out asteroids. The Dragon world is large enough that it has a breathable atmosphere, but it's hellish.—RS]

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

[Bolt:] Okay. figured ya didn't mean in the country, a different country area other than where I was born, so I had to look it up, then had to ask someone. A pretty-out there question, this one! Learnt there're a few autonomous regions that get to have different customs, different laws, and different money systems, but there's no other place completely, separately ruled by anyone other than Rainy Days. There's a reason why her title is Director of Home (our world) and the Nine Outer Worlds (because there are nine others, but none like home). Now that I've learnt that "Nine Outer Worlds" actually means nine other places beyond the stars that people live and ya can walk through an Interstellar gateway to go there, I'd like to walk through one of them daemon-worked miracle gateways, to see a sky different from ours, at least once. Since Boss Mead's syndicate doesn't extend beyond Home City, I probably won't be allowed, though.

[Bolt's a bit of a country bumpkin who ended up in the big city against her will. But she's right, there are no nation states, and though Rainy Days delegates much of her authority, that sometimes backfires to the extent that wars break out (like the one she started in Reluctant Moon), she technically rules ten worlds, mostly colonies on Mars-like worlds where people live under domes, and two hollowed out asteroids. The Dragon world is large enough that it has a breathable atmosphere, but it's hellish.—RS]

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

[Bolt:] Okay. figured ya didn't mean in the country, a different country area other than where I was born, so I had to look it up, then had to ask someone. A pretty-out there question, this one! Learnt there're a few autonomous regions that get to have different customs, different laws, and different money systems, but there's no other place completely, separately ruled by anyone other than Rainy Days. There's a reason why her title is Director of Home (our world) and the Nine Outer Worlds (because there are nine others, but none like home). Now that I've learnt that "Nine Outer Worlds" actually means nine other places beyond the stars that people live and ya can walk through an Interstellar gateway to go there, I'd like to walk through one of them daemon-worked miracle gateways, to see a sky different from ours, at least once. Since Boss Mead's syndicate doesn't extend beyond Home City, I probably won't be allowed, though.

[Bolt's a bit of a country bumpkin who ended up in the big city against her will. But she's right, there are no nation states, and though Rainy Days delegates much of her authority, that sometimes backfires to the extent that wars break out (like the one she started in Reluctant Moon), she technically rules ten worlds, mostly colonies on Mars-like worlds where people live under domes, and two hollowed out asteroids. The Dragon world is large enough that it has a breathable atmosphere, but it's hellish.—RS]

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

[Bolt:] Okay. figured ya didn't mean in the country, a different country area other than where I was born, so I had to look it up, then had to ask someone. A pretty-out there question, this one! Learnt there're a few autonomous regions that get to have different customs, different laws, and different money systems, but there's no other place completely, separately ruled by anyone other than Rainy Days. There's a reason why her title is Director of Home (our world) and the Nine Outer Worlds (because there are nine others, but none like home). Now that I've learnt that "Nine Outer Worlds" actually means nine other places beyond the stars that people live and ya can walk through an Interstellar gateway to go there, I'd like to walk through one of them daemon-worked miracle gateways, to see a sky different from ours, at least once. Since Boss Mead's syndicate doesn't extend beyond Home City, I probably won't be allowed, though.

[Bolt's a bit of a country bumpkin who ended up in the big city against her will. But she's right, there are no nation states, and though Rainy Days delegates much of her authority, that sometimes backfires to the extent that wars break out (like the one she started in Reluctant Moon), she technically rules ten worlds, mostly colonies on Mars-like worlds where people live under domes, and two hollowed out asteroids. The Dragon world is large enough that it has a breathable atmosphere, but it's hellish.—RS]

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

[Bolt:] Okay. figured ya didn't mean in the country, a different country area other than where I was born, so I had to look it up, then had to ask someone. A pretty-out there question, this one! Learnt there're a few autonomous regions that get to have different customs, different laws, and different money systems, but there's no other place completely, separately ruled by anyone other than Rainy Days. There's a reason why her title is Director of Home (our world) and the Nine Outer Worlds (because there are nine others, but none like home). Now that I've learnt that "Nine Outer Worlds" actually means nine other places beyond the stars that people live and ya can walk through an Interstellar gateway to go there, I'd like to walk through one of them daemon-worked miracle gateways, to see a sky different from ours, at least once. Since Boss Mead's syndicate doesn't extend beyond Home City, I probably won't be allowed, though.

[Bolt's a bit of a country bumpkin who ended up in the big city against her will. But she's right, there are no nation states, and though Rainy Days delegates much of her authority, that sometimes backfires to the extent that wars break out (like the one she started in Reluctant Moon), she technically rules ten worlds, mostly colonies on Mars-like worlds where people live under domes, and two hollowed out asteroids. The Dragon world is large enough that it has a breathable atmosphere, but it's hellish.—RS]

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

Fenella: I have. I’ve lived in many places. I’ve actually traveled the world. In the end, I still found my way home to Moray, Scotland. To Alistair. To Dorcha Castle. I’d like to stay here now, if I’m given the chance.

Alistair: That’s my own business...

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

Fenella: I have. I’ve lived in many places. I’ve actually traveled the world. In the end, I still found my way home to Moray, Scotland. To Alistair. To Dorcha Castle. I’d like to stay here now, if I’m given the chance.

Alistair: That’s my own business...

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

Fenella: I have. I’ve lived in many places. I’ve actually traveled the world. In the end, I still found my way home to Moray, Scotland. To Alistair. To Dorcha Castle. I’d like to stay here now, if I’m given the chance.

Alistair: That’s my own business...

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

Fenella: I have. I’ve lived in many places. I’ve actually traveled the world. In the end, I still found my way home to Moray, Scotland. To Alistair. To Dorcha Castle. I’d like to stay here now, if I’m given the chance.

Alistair: That’s my own business...

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

Fenella: I have. I’ve lived in many places. I’ve actually traveled the world. In the end, I still found my way home to Moray, Scotland. To Alistair. To Dorcha Castle. I’d like to stay here now, if I’m given the chance.

Alistair: That’s my own business...

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Callum hates having to go to the hospital and avoids doing so like the plague if he can help it, because he knows, doctors and nurses solely rely on #AI. Such reliance had cost his wife her life and he would better not know how many other.

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

The best doctors are daemons as Bolt, my day angel MC, understands it. As far as she knows (and she'll learn she's wrong) all doctors are part of Health Services, something everyone gets for free along with basic income, and is therefore available to her only if she shows her government ID. She's a criminal, so she's intentionally lost that ID; the last thing she needs is for the mob to use it to trace her to her family (or for the constabulary to link her to a teenage cough-cough "indiscretion"). Her first experience with the medical field in the novel is when she takes her boyfriend Molt, who is a very cute university student, to Health Services to mend a broken arm. Not only does a daemon nurse use a miracle to relieve the guy's pain, but a daemon doctor later "reaches" into Molt's body to "convince" his fracture to heal "miraculously" quickly. Bolt later learns from the devil-girl that the exceptionally talented doctor they had to wait half the night for is Rainy Day's personal physician.

It's interesting how the main series antagonist, Rainy Days, keeps up showing up peripherally in the story!

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

The best doctors are daemons as Bolt, my day angel MC, understands it. As far as she knows (and she'll learn she's wrong) all doctors are part of Health Services, something everyone gets for free along with basic income, and is therefore available to her only if she shows her government ID. She's a criminal, so she's intentionally lost that ID; the last thing she needs is for the mob to use it to trace her to her family (or for the constabulary to link her to a teenage cough-cough "indiscretion"). Her first experience with the medical field in the novel is when she takes her boyfriend Molt, who is a very cute university student, to Health Services to mend a broken arm. Not only does a daemon nurse use a miracle to relieve the guy's pain, but a daemon doctor later "reaches" into Molt's body to "convince" his fracture to heal "miraculously" quickly. Bolt later learns from the devil-girl that the exceptionally talented doctor they had to wait half the night for is Rainy Day's personal physician.

It's interesting how the main series antagonist, Rainy Days, keeps up showing up peripherally in the story!

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

The best doctors are daemons as Bolt, my day angel MC, understands it. As far as she knows (and she'll learn she's wrong) all doctors are part of Health Services, something everyone gets for free along with basic income, and is therefore available to her only if she shows her government ID. She's a criminal, so she's intentionally lost that ID; the last thing she needs is for the mob to use it to trace her to her family (or for the constabulary to link her to a teenage cough-cough "indiscretion"). Her first experience with the medical field in the novel is when she takes her boyfriend Molt, who is a very cute university student, to Health Services to mend a broken arm. Not only does a daemon nurse use a miracle to relieve the guy's pain, but a daemon doctor later "reaches" into Molt's body to "convince" his fracture to heal "miraculously" quickly. Bolt later learns from the devil-girl that the exceptionally talented doctor they had to wait half the night for is Rainy Day's personal physician.

It's interesting how the main series antagonist, Rainy Days, keeps up showing up peripherally in the story!

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

The best doctors are daemons as Bolt, my day angel MC, understands it. As far as she knows (and she'll learn she's wrong) all doctors are part of Health Services, something everyone gets for free along with basic income, and is therefore available to her only if she shows her government ID. She's a criminal, so she's intentionally lost that ID; the last thing she needs is for the mob to use it to trace her to her family (or for the constabulary to link her to a teenage cough-cough "indiscretion"). Her first experience with the medical field in the novel is when she takes her boyfriend Molt, who is a very cute university student, to Health Services to mend a broken arm. Not only does a daemon nurse use a miracle to relieve the guy's pain, but a daemon doctor later "reaches" into Molt's body to "convince" his fracture to heal "miraculously" quickly. Bolt later learns from the devil-girl that the exceptionally talented doctor they had to wait half the night for is Rainy Day's personal physician.

It's interesting how the main series antagonist, Rainy Days, keeps up showing up peripherally in the story!

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

The best doctors are daemons as Bolt, my day angel MC, understands it. As far as she knows (and she'll learn she's wrong) all doctors are part of Health Services, something everyone gets for free along with basic income, and is therefore available to her only if she shows her government ID. She's a criminal, so she's intentionally lost that ID; the last thing she needs is for the mob to use it to trace her to her family (or for the constabulary to link her to a teenage cough-cough "indiscretion"). Her first experience with the medical field in the novel is when she takes her boyfriend Molt, who is a very cute university student, to Health Services to mend a broken arm. Not only does a daemon nurse use a miracle to relieve the guy's pain, but a daemon doctor later "reaches" into Molt's body to "convince" his fracture to heal "miraculously" quickly. Bolt later learns from the devil-girl that the exceptionally talented doctor they had to wait half the night for is Rainy Day's personal physician.

It's interesting how the main series antagonist, Rainy Days, keeps up showing up peripherally in the story!

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Well, this is an interesting one. Most of the main cast are undead in the sense that they’re immortals AKA vampires and werewolves. The mortals AKA humans, however, will do it whenever it’s necessary. There’s a barber-surgeon (who's also a dentist and a farm animal veterinarian) in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that it’s the tail end of the Victorian era, as far as medical science is concerned. Ooof, we've come such a long way since then...

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Well, this is an interesting one. Most of the main cast are undead in the sense that they’re immortals AKA vampires and werewolves. The mortals AKA humans, however, will do it whenever it’s necessary. There’s a barber-surgeon (who's also a dentist and a farm animal veterinarian) in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that it’s the tail end of the Victorian era, as far as medical science is concerned. Ooof, we've come such a long way since then...

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Well, this is an interesting one. Most of the main cast are undead in the sense that they’re immortals AKA vampires and werewolves. The mortals AKA humans, however, will do it whenever it’s necessary. There’s a barber-surgeon (who's also a dentist and a farm animal veterinarian) in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that it’s the tail end of the Victorian era, as far as medical science is concerned. Ooof, we've come such a long way since then...

#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WingsOfQuietLonging #ParanormalRomance #Fantasy #Gothic #Victorian #Vampires #Werewolves

#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Well, this is an interesting one. Most of the main cast are undead in the sense that they’re immortals AKA vampires and werewolves. The mortals AKA humans, however, will do it whenever it’s necessary. There’s a barber-surgeon (who's also a dentist and a farm animal veterinarian) in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that it’s the tail end of the Victorian era, as far as medical science is concerned. Ooof, we've come such a long way since then...

#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WingsOfQuietLonging #ParanormalRomance #Fantasy #Gothic #Victorian #Vampires #Werewolves

#PennedPossibilities 1012 — How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Well, this is an interesting one. Most of the main cast are undead in the sense that they’re immortals AKA vampires and werewolves. The mortals AKA humans, however, will do it whenever it’s necessary. There’s a barber-surgeon (who's also a dentist and a farm animal veterinarian) in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that it’s the tail end of the Victorian era, as far as medical science is concerned. Ooof, we've come such a long way since then...

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#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot: Time for a creative fun prompt. Replace something in your story with something completely silly.

Sumika: I was hoping for a cat familiar. But a Rhino is a bit over the top!

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#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot: Time for a creative fun prompt. Replace something in your story with something completely silly.

When Juniper, Yayde and the gang break into Parchpin's warehouse, believing him to be dying in bed at his mansion, Parchpin leaps out at them wearing a red nose and a fright wig, and sings "Happy Days Are Here Again".

#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot

I have replaced alchemy with the distillation of alcoholic spirits.

Half the characters are dead, because their healing potions have turned into whisky.

The other characters haven't noticed the deaths, because they're too drunk on healing potions to remember their own names.

#PennedPossibilities 1011: Do you have a favourite song? Has it ever inspired anything you’ve written?

Not as such, but it’s kinda fun to drop song titles into the narrative and wonder whether my readers will get the reference:
‘I’ve been watching you,’ he said, by way of a greeting.

‘What? You mean as in every move you make, every step you take, I’ve been watching you. Kind of a way,’ I replied, leaving him nonplussed.

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I started #sketching to work on my #comicbook.
It's philosophical and filled with great stuff and I created a 4 person board game for character development but I have a feeling it won't be received well because it's too realistic and because of the content, I think most people won't be able to read it but anyway yesterday was my day 2. I didn't draw but this is my day 1...what can I say?, the writing got me
#pennedpossibilities #art #KernelVoid #love

I started #sketching to work on my #comicbook.
It's philosophical and filled with great stuff and I created a 4 person board game for character development but I have a feeling it won't be received well because it's too realistic and because of the content, I think most people won't be able to read it but anyway yesterday was my day 2. I didn't draw but this is my day 1...what can I say?, the writing got me
#pennedpossibilities #art #KernelVoid #love

#PennedPossibilities 1010 — What are any of your characters hiding? (A fantasy, fear, strength, talent, an unpopular or controversial opinion, prejudice, etc.) Why are they hiding it?

Why? In the period of a few weeks she's gone from invisible to meeting a newspaper reporter who's front pagestory needed her photographs, an editor who wants to agent her work, and a cute college student —who's, well, the type of cute she likes—as well as learning a favorite boyfriend is a praetorian who works for the nation's ruler, and then meeting said ruler... who has learned her name.

Bolt is hiding that she's a courier for the mob. For her friends' safety, since she can't convince her friends to leave her alone.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1010 — What are any of your characters hiding? (A fantasy, fear, strength, talent, an unpopular or controversial opinion, prejudice, etc.) Why are they hiding it?

Why? In the period of a few weeks she's gone from invisible to meeting a newspaper reporter who's front pagestory needed her photographs, an editor who wants to agent her work, and a cute college student —who's, well, the type of cute she likes—as well as learning a favorite boyfriend is a praetorian who works for the nation's ruler, and then meeting said ruler... who has learned her name.

Bolt is hiding that she's a courier for the mob. For her friends' safety, since she can't convince her friends to leave her alone.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory