Page 1 of 2

Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:56 pm
by Alicorn
...will be up tomorrow.

I'm on a plane, and it has free wifi but blocks FTP, so I can't upload the story yet. When it goes up it'll be here. Fantasy, < 18,300 words (a little shorter than Water).

If you are a Patreon patron, go check out this patrons-only post with a link to the version the beta readers got - it's a Google doc in raw HTML, so not the most pleasant reading experience ever, but it'll get you there a day early. I charged for this post on Patreon but won't be double-charging for Rings. I think this should still work if you subscribe after the fact (i.e. now) and I won't begrudge if you then back out as soon as you have the link - I would be publishing to the world today but as long as I can only do an ugly version might as well make it a perk of sorts.

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:31 pm
by Anya
That was great and makes me feel things. Sad things!

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:31 pm
by Alicorn
Home! It's up normally now.

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:30 am
by cbhacking
... Ooof. Dang, that hits. Such complicated feelings...

Also, your RSS feed has the right link, but shows the title "Sendaway". Copypasta?

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:12 am
by Alicorn
Yeah, bleagh.

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:06 pm
by Bluelantern
That was great in a "completely twisted horrifying" kinda of way xD

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:51 pm
by jalapeno_dude
Well, that was horrifying.
especially this
"The royal family does not condone biological murder."

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:02 am
by DeAnno
Does anyone think that maybe Shula knew Celia was on the fence and the entire thing with Meer was staged to guilt her into going along?

EDIT: Though through Celia's father we know Meer wasn't lying, so he wouldn't have been in on it and Shula would've been playing the game two steps ahead, letting him make his doomed attempt since it would let her rope in Celia with guilt.

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:13 pm
by PlainDealingVillain
Yeah, I also got the feeling that Shula was expecting Meer (or maybe someone else) to try to convince Celia to give it up.

Re: Novella: "Rings"

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:26 pm
by Alicorn
I can't tell if people want me to confirm or deny interpretations of events.