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You Me and the Sea -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/you-me-and-the-sea-steve-henderson.html?product=coffee-mug

May the image on the mug take you to a good and wonderful place . . .

The Heart of Juliet Jones by Stan Drake
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Season 2 Episode 22 "Summer of '85"

#PennedPossibilities 643 — How does your SC respond to the quiet? Do they take comfort in silence, or seek to fill the void with noise?

Bolt, from the Reluctance Series during the Interstellar era, was blackmailed (framed for a murder) by the mob into being a messenger for a decade. She has wings. She had to be silent, sometimes a detective. It's not like she hung around mobsters, or wanted to be pulled in deeper. Nor could she confide in anyone, lest they get targeted by association. Worse, she never got paid much.

Eventually, she found a camera that fell off the back of a wagon. She got into street photography. One time, when she happened to be where news happened (too often in her profession), she had taken a few photos when a reporter's camera got slammed into a wall.

He asked if she'd sell him photos. Turned out she's pretty good.

She often gets her photos into her world's version of The New Yorker and The New York Times and is also a part time stringer. As you can guess, she wanders the cold dank unfriendly streets when she can be free (makes it harder to be given "assignments"), and dispels the dangerous depressing quiet that might otherwise seep in.

Her love affair with B&W street photography does not wane when she is freed from the mob, pardoned, and begins train to become a praetorian. Sure her subjects are different, and her wandering happens between trainings and bodyguard duties, but she has the knack of using a rangefinder without being noticed (think Leica).

Edit: This actually gave me detective noir story idea...

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#WordWeavers 2504.14 — Who is your kindest character and how do they show it?

Of my recent works, Wintereyes from Inklings (now on composition hiatus) is likely my kindest. She lives in my Townships and Wands universe, which is full of various magicks. I've a few sample stories posted in my pinned samples post. Her magic is… well, it's rather peculiar.

She's is a very naïve girl when it comes to humans, and as a result is suddenly shy (like her author). She wants to be helpful and she likes to listen, and not be seen (like her author). She's quite kind; her demeanor. She wants to be friends, but raised on a farm at the edge of the Fell Forest, her opportunities for friends were… well, rather peculiar.

But not limited!

She befriends wolves, is adopted by them, and lives with the pack, running with them, hunting with them, and healing them. This did not make her cruel, even when she also befriends prey animals, too. Her ethics are… interesting.

Oh, about befriending. Befriending is her sacrificing part of herself to become more like her new friend. For example, her most recent mess started when she befriended a wyvern (bat-dragon) because it had a cold and was burning up the forest sneezing. She wanted to find out how to treat its cold! How did she become more like the creature? Besides learning how to converse with it, when she concentrates on its language, she can breathe fire. (It's like a glottal stop.)

But she'd never hurt anybody with it!

The Warlord of the closest Township (actually a woman) takes a serious interest in Wintereyes, and her story begins.

See image: This is how I imagine the wyvern. A face only a mother, or Wintereyes, could love.

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n a moment of intimacy, Eliza wrestles with feelings of disappointment after a Tae-Kwon Do competition, confiding in Tyler about her self-doubt. As they share warmth and understanding, their bond deepens
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Now though, all that experience and training she had been made to do for so long; the experience that she just had on Crete had triggered something very deep, and she was struggling to maintain control.
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