Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: awake
  • 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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lazzchan

March 12 2014, 01:35:21 UTC 3 years ago

Okay, now that I've finished said short story and corrupted my friend with half the quotes from the book... I just have to say HOW much I loved this. Rose! And you sneaky woman, giving us the scene with Rose and Verity and Dominic and it was fantastic. I loved the mice and their Cattle Farm ritual. The whole thing with the dead people (this is a very nice side trip to lead to Sparrow Hill Road) and I loved hearing the call from Alex from the other end. :D I SERIOUSLY am eager for Dominic to meet the rest of the family and I think I'd send you gold and think mints and a truck load of candy corn if Thomas Price really was alive and he got to meet the full bucket of weird.

Thank you again, Seanan. You have no idea how much this really made my week (and considering I just got booted from my job without warning, this REALLY totally made my week) and I can't stop grinning. ^___^

seanan_mcguire

March 14 2014, 03:42:51 UTC 3 years ago

I am so very, very glad that this was timed well to improve your week. It makes me very happy to hear that.