September 2023 Short Story Poll
Added 2023-09-14 09:02:11 +0000 UTCFor the umpty-bajillionth time, I messed up the poll again, set it for the wrong tiers. Fixed version!
Just two choices this month- I am overwhelmed by life stuff right now. (We're moving halfway across Vietnam, planning a trip back to visit family in the States, planning a belated wedding (been married for most of a year, we just never actually got around to the wedding.)
- Basilisk Street Issue 1 (Non-Aetheriad): The first issue of the script for a graphic novel I wrote around 2011-2012. Pretty standard "secret government agency" story in the first few issues, specifically an agency dedicated to monitoring, controlling, and shutting down exotic weaponry- linguistic weaponry, death symphonies, grey goo, that sort of thing. After the first few issues, though, it gets weird fast. Whenever readers vote for this one, it will start a run of all five issues over the next five months- but that won't interfere with regular short stories. So the first Basilisk Street month, you just get Basilisk Street 1, but the next four months, you'll get Basilisk Street alongside the monthly short story. Extra value! (You'll probably notice some primitive versions of ideas that later found their way into Mage Errant- it's why I avoided publishing this one until I finished Mage Errant.)
- The Last Man (Iopis): A group of merchants is stranded in a Krannenberg mountain pass, with nothing to do but wait for death with the knowledge that, in the end, the last of them will die with his name unrecorded, will be lost to his ancestors and condemned to eternal loneliness.
Comments
It's been defeated for so long now that it's passed from "Basilisk Street 1" to just "Basilisk Street" and yet it loses again. lol
Luis Miller
2023-09-21 05:09:04 +0000 UTCBasilisk street! basilisk street! Basilisk street! Basilisk street! Basilisk street!
Apotheosis
2023-09-14 09:05:10 +0000 UTC
