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Testing crossposting - The Tools of Justice - Kingdoms and ThornOriginal Tatan Paradigm - Shared from /conlang
imzy.comOverview So recently, I mentioned that I'd finally found the original Tatan paradigm. It's imperfect, as it was my second conlang, but it worked and all I really needed to do was finalize cases, numbe...Akachenti Phonology (that boring stuff that starts a language off right) - Shared from /conlang
There are 28 consonants, 10 vowels and 7 diphthongs Consonants Partial voicing is suprasegmental in stops and affricates. Full voicing is suprasegmental in labials. Fricatives sometimes take partia...Published! "Coronation" up at 365 Tomorrows
365tomorrows.comThe surgeon was laying out her scalpels in the tray when she dropped one, stopped cold. The pulse of the city washed through her beneath her skin, a sensation itching through her brain and mind, the power a sudden shock. She hadn't started the operation y...Descent of Lightning (Arc, also called Light Show)
they do not name for the lightning striking but brightness rolling over knuckles, not for the end, the resting place; for birth, for pain beginning beneath the skin, an itch. It never rests—no, put on a show: lightning sparks in blue arcCry Wolf — Wolf + Ice Queen, drabble
"Wolf! Wolf!" Little feet pounded the hard unforgiving floor in the underground base, and a child barely smaller than the one she was calling for tugged at Wolf's arm to groggy, half-asleep protests before simply clambering into Wolf's bed. "Oof. You're h...The Warmth of Memory (drabble)
The memories rise up through her skin, warmth washing over her— —bread baking, its good smells filling the kitchen as grandmother's hands help hers to knead the dough, "Careful, little one," a smile at the edge of her voice. —father's deep voice rumbling ...Remember (drabble)
Do you remember when we were still children? I remember. Remember holding hands as we climbed over the rocks, how it felt warm. I'd always get too hot, except winters. We'd curl up together and tell stories over hot chocolate and laugh. I remember that, h...A Soft, Little Girl — Mirage, drabble
She waits on point, where outer wall meets internal hallway straight to their target. "Mirage, I need a way in," Vision says. Mirage complies. Molecules turn at angles, reality melting around her power as she bends an opening in the wall. Her team scrambl...Prosody in Kachan - Akachenti dialect
Observations: There is both primary and secondary stress. Secondary stress is determined by the placement of primary stress and unstressable syllables. Long syllables cannot be stressed. Unstressed syllables do not undergo vowel reduction. Short syllab...haiku for morning
Light grows longer beams Stretching out its fingertips To warmly touch mine Originally posted here: https://www.imzy.com/haiku/post/haiku_for_morning/NO LONGER MY HOME - (Splintered, Brihdë and Yaden)
Brihdë could hardly wait to get her feet back off the ground. She tugged at the neck of her tunic, heavy with the small planet's gravity and the weight of strangers staring at the silver sigil delicately threaded into the dark blue. She wasn't Burning Sig...Alejhera of the Donain (Fictional Folktale)
Once among the Clans, the Sigil burned. The people of the Clans were attacked by their enemies and would have burned them all with fire. Now Alejhera was the last unwed of the donain. She went to her husband and she kissed him and laid down with him unti...Ellipsis
Burninating in your blog To immolate without just cause Shall I set fire to the rain Just to watch its pretty pain? Misbegotten—poor design? Never! The architect resigned A better plan within its place Rose to shine into our face I'm just lighting up a fi...Fiction and Poetry Masterpost
Kingdoms and Thorn see me, 18 lines Soft, Little Girl, A, 100 words Team 34 Battery Acid, 499 words Birth of Wings, 100 words Gratitude in an Off Note, 190 words It Came Up: Five Times Rachelle Didn't Love Justus & One Time She Did, 481 words Its Own A...haiku for winter
Winter's winds like light cut through morning skies and wake my breath, gasp, alive Originally posted here: https://www.imzy.com/haiku/post/haiku_for_winterA Warm Cup (Kingdoms and Thorn, Arc)
Dark green tea swirled in the cup and tasted dark and biting with a greenness to it that made Arc feel like she might be picking needles out from between her teeth. There was no rich creamy coherence with the sharp notes nipping up around the edges. She b...All My Dreams (Splintered, Laiha & as yet unnamed husband)
He wasn't used to sleeping with a wife. So when Laiha jerked out of sleep, he woke up to her stiffening and pulling away in the darkness. She sat up on the bed and seemed to fold in on herself, arms around her legs or torso, radiating tension. After the c...Lost (and Found) - Arc
100 Three of them, round and bright, hanging on the wall and ticking away like they had nothing better to do with their time than mock all comers with the passing seconds, minutes, hours. Sometimes, Ice Queen stopped and stared at them. "Your mother has ...see me (poem)
I am broken down in pieces and I hold them out to you my eyes are whispering secrets but none of them are true until you walk my footsteps and until you breathe my wind you will never understand even though I let you in I feel you in my heart, you live be...Novembering, also Christmas
livejournal.comAbsolutely no NanoWrimo. I don't do it well. In short, I do it so badly, I should be banned and have banned myself. But that doesn't mean no books! Last year, I created books to send to interested parties, and I'd like to get a better head start on my Chr...Reversal (drabble)
"Are you jealous?" She raised an eyebrow, a surprising lack of emotion conveyed in the rest of her face. "Jealousy is for people who don't know what's theirs." "Or who can't keep it, right?" So what if his voice was a little condescending. She was just a ...Small Reassurance (50-word story)
This is the moment he knows he's in love with her, the moment she turns around, white dress haloing her body in the light, and tells him, "You can do this without me." She's trying to reassure him. She's only making him realize, breath arrested, that no, ...Misfire (Ice Queen + Wolf + Stream, drabble)
"Do you like him?" Wolf asked frankly, hanging upside down off the end of her bed. Frankly, it wasn't any better than Stream's idea of trying to win Ice Queen's affections. Ice Queen shrugged and played out the next five cards on her solitaire game. It wa...




