This is an excerpt from a dream I had a while ago. It’s inspired a number of ficlets so far, and still kind of haunts me. I had only been asleep for like 15 minutes and woke up in tears. This little snippet has kind of crept into everything I write.
I don’t have any fiction prepared for posting right at the moment, but I wanted to make sure and get an entry off this week, so I’m leaving a few links here that have been inspirational this week.
This first one is a screenplay so brilliant I wish I had written it myself. I often read something that makes me think, “How can I possibly top something that cool?” And this is one such thing.
It’s a rewriting of one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies, Hackers in the clockwork/steampunk genre. Well done. Clockers, by Holly Gramazio and Brendan Adkins.
The other thing I wanted to link to here is a piece in Project Gutenberg that I have been browsing, a collection of Nahuatl poetry presented side by side with the english translation.
It occurred to me that I’ve never read any Mexican Fantasy and that I probably would like to write some, so I’ve done a couple of ficlets about the modern return of Quetzalcoatl starting here.
This was started as a Ficlet very recently, and it should be fairly obvious how I will be folding this into Anso’s story.
I fleshed it out a little bit from its abbreviated ficlet form.