Love is a vicious, pointy, many-splendored thing.: seanan

Love is a vicious, pointy, many-splendored thing.

We have successfully weathered both the release of The Winter Long and the start of a new year, complete with my birthday, which means that you deserve a treat. And here it is:

A brand-new story about Tybalt, Toby, and their first real date. "No Sooner Met," has been posted on the Toby Daye short fiction page. It is available in ePub, MOBI, and PDF formats, and is free for download. Please download rather than trying to read locally; my server will thank you.

This story is best read after Ashes of Honor if possible, since it is set very shortly after that book, and contains unavoidable spoilers for the series up to that point. It is a story about falling in love, and cats, and how to get a really good steak in San Francisco. It is narrated by Tybalt, because he's the romantic in this relationship.

Cover graphics are by Tara O'Shea. All short story electronic conversion thus far has been done by

scifantasy. As both of them are awesome, we applaud them now.

Go forth, read, and please feel free to use this as a discussion post, which means there may be spoilers in the comments. Tread carefully.

Enjoy.

sylviamcivers

January 8 2015, 18:09:29 UTC 2 years ago

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Whee! Seanan wrote short fic!
*goes off to read it*

seanan_mcguire

January 12 2015, 03:06:22 UTC 2 years ago

I do that!

vettecat

January 9 2015, 02:26:54 UTC 2 years ago

Eeeeeeeee! Thank you thank you thank you!

January 12 2015, 03:06:31 UTC 2 years ago

Very welcome.

gothrockrulz

January 9 2015, 07:05:42 UTC 2 years ago

Happy (belated) Birthday, and thank you so much for the story! Off I go to read!

January 12 2015, 03:06:41 UTC 2 years ago

Hooray!

nurseiris

January 9 2015, 07:58:02 UTC 2 years ago

All the squee! Squee for a million years. Two million years! So much loveliness packed into such a short story! And not a drop of blood was spilled on screen! Perhaps a Toby story first. I especially loved Tybalt's reaction to Toby's comment about being doused in bodily fluids, and his sorrow at overcooked steak. So much squeeeeeee!

January 12 2015, 03:07:15 UTC 2 years ago

You know, I think you may be...wait, no. "Never Shines the Sun" had no blood. I'm not sure "Through This House" did either.

falnfenix

January 9 2015, 11:03:42 UTC 2 years ago

this was lovely, and it hit at the perfect time - i just finished Ashes in my series re-read. :)

January 12 2015, 03:07:25 UTC 2 years ago

Yay!

knittingwoman

January 10 2015, 23:20:34 UTC 2 years ago

just downloaded the story and read it all in one go, it was great, thank you!!!

January 12 2015, 03:07:35 UTC 2 years ago

erinwrites

January 11 2015, 00:08:55 UTC 2 years ago

I finished it, turned to Rand (y'know, MY Rand. hee.), and said "I love her SO MUCH."

<3

January 12 2015, 03:08:02 UTC 2 years ago

It cracks me up how he keeps needing to use his "kitten" name and then I'm like "I bet Erin is all a-scowl."

2 years ago

lazzchan

January 11 2015, 02:38:20 UTC 2 years ago

All I can think is he called her a cat toy and I'm laughing too hard at the image. It fits all too well. Loved this, it was a fabulous story and in Tybalt's voice, too!