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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2015-06-05 10:39:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2015-06-05 10:39:00

Mood: sad
Music: Hypnogaja, "Here Comes the Rain Again."

But my mama's gone, like the prarie dawn, and the Lord of the Buffalo.

It's time for some free fiction, and for the last story of the Johnny and Fran era. The year is 1945. Frances Healy, born Frances Brown, is gone, and the time has come, however little we might want it, to say goodbye to a friend.

With "Star of New Mexico," we close the book on Johnny and Fran, and look to the future. It's the end of an era. It's the beginning of something new.

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

This also serves as your discussion post.

As an author's note, if you want the perfect song to accompany this story, download "Chasing Twisters" (the song, not the EP) by Delta Rae. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Goodbye, Fran. I'll miss you.

Tags: giving stuff away, incryptid, short fiction

anne_d

June 5 2015, 18:30:13 UTC 2 years ago

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Oh, oh. My heart breaks for Fran's human family, but it was the mouse priest who really got to me. So much love and so much loss.

beccastareyes

June 5 2015, 19:16:04 UTC 2 years ago

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Yes. Especially because I think this is the first time we see the Aeslin mice on their terms. Certainly most of the time we see them, it's through the lens of the Price-Healys. It's easy to be amused by 'Cheese and Cake!' without remembering that the mice have their own society that is intertwined with their gods', but still separated, and their own understanding of mortality (both Aeslin and human).