Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Halestorm, "Out Ta Get Me."

Let's get back to Buckley, shall we?

It's time for some free fiction. Hooray! It's Valentine's Day in Buckley Township, Michigan. The year is 1945...and it's almost the end of the world.

In "Broken Paper Hearts," Alice Healy is getting ready for her school Valentine's Day party, complete with pink sugar cupcakes and paper hearts for everybody...and Fran, her beloved mother, has not come back from her latest trip into the woods.

It's the end of an era and the day we've all known was coming for a long time.

Happy Valentine's Day.

You can download the new story now from the InCryptid short fiction page.

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

February 23 2015, 13:53:31 UTC 2 years ago

I really appreciate how you handle character deaths in your fiction. You use it sparingly so that it continues to have impact, and when it happens you give it the weight and significance it deserves without wallowing in the horror and/or grief of it (or allowing your characters to wallow in it).

seanan_mcguire

February 23 2015, 13:57:13 UTC 2 years ago

Well, the next story, "Star of New Mexico," is the funeral and aftermath. So there may be a little wallowing there...

wendyzski

February 24 2015, 20:49:27 UTC 2 years ago

I'm sure the mice will make me weep