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#ScribesAndMakers What would your best creative life look like, keeping it realistic?

[Looks around. Opens mouth. Closes it again.]

American voters: "I regret I have but one nose to cut off to spite my face."

"Never heard of it."
"Oh. It was the first kind of plastic." He poured them each a cup of tea then sat down. They both heard a crunch.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" she said. He stood and they inspected the bracelet now broken into three or four pieces. "I guess now it's made out of #satellite." (3/3) #wss366

She inspected it curiously. "What is that? It looks cheap."
"It looks cheap, and I got it for a song," he called from the kitchen. "But it's actually quite valuable."
"Ew. Why?" She set the bracelet back on his chair.
"It's made out of bakelite!" he said, placing the tray on the coffee table. (2/3)

"Wanna see my newest acquisition?" he asked, getting up as the tea kettle started to whistle.
"What is it this time?" she asked. "You always get such weird stuff at the flea market."
He handed her a colorful plastic bracelet. "Ta-da!" Then he scurried out of the room. (1/3)

Maybe Miss Demeanors should be the daughter of General Amnesty and form a polycule with Felonious Monk and Corporal Punishment.

I uncharacteristically heard voices, looked out, and realized that today is the so-called "blarney blowout." Streams of undergraduates are walking past my house to attend parties in North Amherst. I don't see any with BORGs this year. #westernmass

Miss Demeanors and her ill-fated romance with Corporal Punishment.

I looked up my books at biblio.com. Weird. Resellers claim to have absurd numbers of my books (69? Nice!) and are offering them at ludicrous prices: they cost less than that new!

He'd been at the bar for a long time and was drinking his third scotch when the music started up. He looked over his shoulder and saw that a young woman had started playing the piano. Her fingers seemed to #glide effortlessly over the keys. She moved smoothly from one song to the next. She wasn't using sheet music, but playing from memory. But not just playing the notes. Her music was invested with feeling, spirit, and soul. He closed his eyes, swept away by the sound and his memories.

#wss366

Many thanks to @ojensen for producing and sharing these awesome pins. We will wear them with #pride.

#WordWeavers Which one of your characters is in the safest situation?

Probably Tseluna. As an ancient demon, she's incredibly over powered as any kind of ordinary character. There aren't many entities that could offer a legitimate challenge to her power: only organized demons could offer a serious threat and, by nature, demons mostly don't organize.

Tseluna is a protagonist in *A Familiar Problem* coming soon from Water Dragon Publishing.

*Lady Cecelia's Sacrifice* is Part 5 of *Lady Cecelia's Journey*, a sapphic romantasy road story. It has not yet been scheduled for release, but if you subscribe to my monthly newsletter, you can receive updates when it appears. https://author-sdbrewer.micro.blog/subscribe/

#LesFicFri "touch"

#FridayKiss from Lady Cecelia's Choice, Part Two of Lady Cecelia's Journey.

I would be extremely surprised if Donald Trump knew what the Lakshman Rekha was. Or had even heard of the Ramayana.

#PennedPossibilities Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you tell us more without giving away any spoilers?

You learn Revin's secret on page 2. The Third Time's the Charm, Part One of Revin's Heart, is available for free at most places that digital books are sold. https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/third-times-the-charm/

But you can still speak other languages…

#WordWeavers Are any of your characters trying to change the world?

Revin grew up as a commoner in a feudal society ruled by an aristocracy. After joining pirates, which are more egalitarian, he realizes that the rules of society that divide the aristocracy from the commoners can be rewritten to produce a society with less inequality. But it's a long, slow process that is threatened on both sides by despotic aristocrats and populists that try to undermine his efforts. https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/revins-heart/

Angels' Wings came out of jump in the Carolot system. Warnaways screeched as they descended on the interdicted world.
"Hang on, we're in for some chop," Nene said.
The flight grew #rough. David maneuvered violently to avoid beam weapons and missiles from automated defenses. The gravity generator whined, unable to fully compensate.
The CuddleTums huddled on the deck and clutched each other squealing as Angels' Wings dropped through the atmosphere and emerged over a forested continent. #wss366