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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palsycorn

March 12 2014, 18:49:20 UTC 3 years ago

Can there be several shorts about Verity and Dominic's road trip???? Like there were with Jonathan and Fran??? Pretty please with curry on top??? (I'm channeling my inner Sarah)

"I didn't defect, I was born defective."

For some reason this made me laugh even harder than Australia's danger rating. It may have had to do with the fact that it was 1 AM.

And Verity messing with Alex during the phone call.....priceless.

Basically it was all kinds of wonderful.

seanan_mcguire

March 14 2014, 03:47:30 UTC 3 years ago

If something else comes up, there will definitely be more stories. I'd love to check in with them periodically for their whole trip, but a) I can't derail the past timeline stuff (or it'll never be finished), and b) I'm not going to write "Verity and Dominic go to the 7-11 and nothing happens." So it has to happen organically.

I do adore them, though. And I love having multiple windows to the world at once.