Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Music: Of Monsters and Men, "Little Talks."

This sounds like fun. We like fun!

Swiped unceremoniously from the lovely and talented ellen_kushner:

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you one sentence from that story.

Sentences! Stories! Knowing me, an accidental new novel!

Game on!

ETA: Game off. No further sentences are being taken. Thank you all for playing!
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jaylake

December 1 2012, 16:46:03 UTC 4 years ago

The long, bloodied fingernails of the clowns scrabbled at my doors and windows as I hastily applied the last of my whiteface, tears streaming down my cheeks.

seanan_mcguire

December 1 2012, 16:51:05 UTC 4 years ago

...well, I'll never sleep again, but thank you for doing my job for me, o my dear one.

Now I'm gonna go hide under the bed for a while.

jaylake

4 years ago

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coyotegoth

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beccastareyes

December 1 2012, 16:50:30 UTC 4 years ago

A magical land of pastels and hearts and talking animals is planning an invasion of Earth and persuading young girls to act as their agents and spies; after all, everyone should have a little magic in their life (whether they want it or not).

seanan_mcguire

December 1 2012, 16:53:15 UTC 4 years ago

"It's all right, Mommy," said Suzie (sweet Suzie, who would never hurt a fly, and oh, God, why was she still holding the knife?), "they said that you'd be angry at the start, but you won't be angry for long."

beccastareyes

4 years ago

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tiamat1972

4 years ago

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kittylady

4 years ago

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fatherofdragons

December 1 2012, 17:26:02 UTC 4 years ago

The Tricksters, the Gods of the Crossroads and the Monarchs of the Cats are having their once-every-hundred-year gathering in Las Vegas, during the Consumer Electronics Show.

gwisteria

December 1 2012, 17:36:10 UTC 4 years ago

That is so cool, my mind went to your setting immediately

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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maverick_weirdo

December 1 2012, 17:35:50 UTC 4 years ago

What happened to the international space station crew after the Kellis-Amberlee uprising?

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 17:41:49 UTC 4 years ago

"Well, fellows," said Marjorie, looking out the viewport at the cool blue Earth below, "looks like we're almost out of air."

maverick_weirdo

4 years ago

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gwisteria

December 1 2012, 17:39:40 UTC 4 years ago

Luci, young witch and single mother navigates thru the politics of the grand council to explain why she would rather live with average humans while trying to keep her baby's potential secretive.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 17:44:44 UTC 4 years ago

"When you have power every day, when you live and breathe and dream power, you forget what it is to be powerless, and you lose the ability to feel empathy for those whose power has been taken away from them," said Luci quietly.

djonn

December 1 2012, 17:44:24 UTC 4 years ago

Our heroine is having lunch in the Space Needle restaurant -- when the entire Needle blasts off for parts unknown.

lapislaz

December 1 2012, 19:13:08 UTC 4 years ago

I'd read that. Several times. Before lunch.

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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joyce

December 1 2012, 17:54:07 UTC 4 years ago

Toby travels back in time and meets Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown.

archangelbeth

December 2 2012, 01:49:45 UTC 4 years ago

...now I'm thinking of a King of the Cats (not necessarily our favorite one) vs. the Aslin Mice. Whose name I have misspelled, I'm sure, and I apologize muchly. Been out of the house for 14 hours. No brain.

luciab

4 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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joyce

4 years ago

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sfogarty

December 1 2012, 17:55:56 UTC 4 years ago

A young mathematician discovers a powerful new deduction system, and sets about trying to proving anything he can. Unbeknownst to her/him, what he proves becomes true, rather than the other way around.

I feel like that's been done before.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 17:53:36 UTC 4 years ago

The numbers didn't lie; the numbers were impeachable in their honesty, because without the simple truths of the mathematical world, the universe must fall unavoidably into chaos.

juglore

December 1 2012, 17:59:49 UTC 4 years ago

Wealthy housewife in magic proscribed country accidentally casts a spell to reduce her son's fever and is instantly magically transported (without her son) to a magic academy/jail where she must prove that she has control of her magic before she may return.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 18:18:10 UTC 4 years ago

The law, which had always seemed so fair and even-handed before, was suddenly revealed as a great grasping beast that had needed only a thin shadow to hide within, and oh, that beast had teeth.

juglore

4 years ago

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rhodielady_47

December 1 2012, 18:29:47 UTC 4 years ago

1) My darling Hubby has become the unofficial Lord Protector of Lost and Found Bats.

2) Hot, sweaty, and looking like I'd just rolled in dust and grass clippings, is definitely not how I wanted to meet the lord and lady of the new faerie mound.

3) Trickster waited patiently until everyone in the boat was too drunk to fish before tying all their fishing lines together and then easing the boat across the countyline into the dry county end of the reservoir, finally, hungry from all his work, Trickster took all the bass they'd caught for his dinner.

4) I know a lot of men who'd rather lend someone their girlfriend than let them monkey around with their moonshine still, so I wasn't surprized when ol Matty Groves got right crotchety with the local lord of the faeries for meddling with his still.

Have fun!
;D

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 18:18:36 UTC 4 years ago

No fun to be had here, sadly; you did the exercise in reverse, and there is naught for me to do.

rhodielady_47

4 years ago

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taldragon

December 1 2012, 18:46:21 UTC 4 years ago

Jonathan Healey meets the Aeslin mice for the very first time.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 18:19:03 UTC 4 years ago

"Goo," said Johnny Healy, now all of three hours old.

silvertwi

December 1 2012, 18:48:04 UTC 4 years ago

1) Cats begin continue the process of taking over the world from humanity.

2) A riot in downtown Boston accidentally contributes the blood magic necessary to finish a dark ritual.

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seanan_mcguire

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silvertwi

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lapislaz

December 1 2012, 19:15:23 UTC 4 years ago

How about the one where electric cars become sentient?

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 18:20:59 UTC 4 years ago

For a generation that had grown up with the Autobots and Johnny 5 as their robot companions, the sudden sapience of the Prius seemed not only preordained, but over a decade past due.

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anna_en_route

December 1 2012, 21:00:00 UTC 4 years ago

If you haven't read Gunnerkrigg Court, it's probably worth doing so =) (not quite an identitical plot but very close)

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anna_en_route

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seanan_mcguire

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cgbookcat1

December 1 2012, 19:18:07 UTC 4 years ago

Anceline goes to the movies.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 18:22:42 UTC 4 years ago

Alas, while I wish to write sentences, I cannot break the laws of physics.

kaleidors

December 1 2012, 19:18:54 UTC 4 years ago

Tell me a sentence from the love story between two urban legend killers falling in love--the Kuchisake-onna & the murderous hitchhiker.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 22:01:37 UTC 4 years ago

Her lips are cold (of course they are cold; she is clay, cold clay, and never more to be warm) and as boundless as the shores of a pond; they are the same age, for death erases all boundaries, and they wrap each other close, arm to arm, unbeating heart to unbeating, unbroken heart.

vizsludraugas

December 1 2012, 19:20:19 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  December 2 2012, 00:48:02 UTC

The thoughts of a merchant ship captain as he prepares to join a convoy through waters known to harbor zombie killer whales.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 22:05:22 UTC 4 years ago

The sea is calm, but that is her strength, and her greatest lure; she is always calm, and no man, however long he loves her, can ever see beneath that pretty mirror to the true blackness of her hidden, harbored heart.

vizsludraugas

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seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 22:05:56 UTC 4 years ago

"Well duh," said Persephone, with a snap of her pomegranate-flavored gum to punctuate her disdain.

gehayi

December 1 2012, 19:26:33 UTC 4 years ago

I loved the one about the biologist-necromancer, flute music, three oranges and the prophecy that was completely wrong.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 22:06:38 UTC 4 years ago

But oh, the autumn air was crisp and lovely, and oh, the sky was clear, and oh, that panda should never have been allowed to play in traffic.

rickvs

December 1 2012, 19:38:58 UTC 4 years ago

Mathematician finally figures out which whorl of the Mandelbrot set will provide accurate data of this universe's past/present/future totality, for use in a freemium crystal ball app.

seanan_mcguire

December 3 2012, 22:07:15 UTC 4 years ago

"Click carefully, my friend, for you are actualizing your own reality for the very first time."

seabhac_mhor

December 1 2012, 19:41:12 UTC 4 years ago

A roadwitch and a shaman (modern day! any culture/trad!) meet at a truck stop to renew their acquaintance, pass news of interest to each community, and negotiate the peace between their respective groups for another lunar year....

(Part of me wants to add, "THEY FIGHT CRIME!")

seanan_mcguire

December 4 2012, 16:16:23 UTC 4 years ago

"The coffee's lousy, but the metaphysical atmosphere is free," said Eloise.

seabhac_mhor

4 years ago

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chatworthy

December 1 2012, 19:45:44 UTC 4 years ago

The new elevator in an old building drives a long-time resident to madness. Biohazard clean-up ensues, eventually.

seanan_mcguire

December 4 2012, 16:16:54 UTC 4 years ago

It was remarkable, really, how much blood, bile, and lymph could be contained in so small a container as a single human body.

bookblather

December 1 2012, 19:55:41 UTC 4 years ago

The annual conference of cryptozoological creatures is usually held in Las Vegas. You'd be surprised who doesn't even blink when a chupacabra walks by.

seanan_mcguire

December 4 2012, 16:17:52 UTC 4 years ago

Six dragon princesses, resplendent in last season's fashions and this season's curves, walked arm-in-arm down the promenade, like movie stars on their way to a premiere.

vincentursus

December 1 2012, 19:59:51 UTC 4 years ago

Ooh, the one with the weaponized sharks.

seanan_mcguire

December 4 2012, 16:18:25 UTC 4 years ago

"WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!" shrieked Carl, before great metal jaws closed around him, and he ceased to have opinions.

vincentursus

4 years ago

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denisen1

December 1 2012, 20:02:13 UTC 4 years ago

I put the idea to Katie (11) and Abby (7), and here's what they came up with.

Abby: A member of the faerie court falls ill; despite the many talents of their own doctors, the faeries are forced to find a human doctor for the faerie to survive.</p>

Katie: Somehow a hill-sized ogre (means well, but clumsy, dopey) becomes trapped in the humans' world. She notes that hill sized means like the hills behind Cal State-East Bay, and they eat deer, trees, and rocks.

:-)

seanan_mcguire

December 4 2012, 17:11:34 UTC 4 years ago

Abby:

The wonders of the hill and the magics of the tree were theirs to know, but ah, the strange magic of "group insurance," that was slightly beyond their ken.

Katie:

"You said I could have a pet," said Katie, with the inexorable logic of the pre-teen girl, while behind her on the hill, her "puppy" chewed serenely on a Pinto.

denisen1

4 years ago

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