Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "The Finding of the Feather."

There is a house in New Orleans...

To celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, it's time for some free fiction. Hooray!

When last we left Verity Price and her boyfriend, Dominic De Luca, they were setting out on an epic road trip in a rented U-Haul with a colony of talking mice. It's...hard to get much more surreal than that, but with Verity involved, you know we're going to try. She needs to get Dominic used to the idea of her family, and that means it's time to start introducing him to people.

People like Auntie Rose, who is smart, sassy, and takes no bullshit, and just happens to have died almost fifty years before Verity was even born.

Nobody's perfect.

You can download "The Ghosts of Bourbon Street" now from the InCryptid short fiction page. This story chronologically overlaps with Half-Off Ragnarok, and is better read after you've read the book. (Obviously I can't control this, but hey, I can give recommendations.)

This also serves as your discussion post.
Tags: incryptid, short fiction
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acelightning

March 12 2014, 10:46:07 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you for the latest freebie! I have Sparrow Hill Road pre-ordered from Amazon, just like I had Half-Off Ragnarok pre-ordered, and I can't wait! Although now I know that those ghosts can be nasty...

seanan_mcguire

March 14 2014, 03:45:21 UTC 3 years ago

Ghosts often can be.

acelightning

March 14 2014, 14:37:02 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  March 14 2014, 14:47:18 UTC

Actually, most of the ghosts I've met have been reasonably easy to deal with... but I haven't tried to bargain with them, demand anything of them, or trick them. (Generally I just have to explain to them that they're dead, and they should therefore stop annoying the living.)

I can't help but visualize that Mardi Gras float's "King" as being tall and very, very thin, dressed in a snappy black tux, with white gloves, and a black top hat above a skull-face, smoking an expensive cigar...