Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Kate Alexa, "Feel It Too."

Sometimes love will hit you with a chair to say hello.

We have successfully weathered both the release of A Red-Rose Chain and the start of a new year, complete with my birthday (it's my birthday!), which means you deserve a treat. And here it is:

A brand-new story about Patrick and Dianda's first meeting! "Heaps of Pearl" 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. (It's at the bottom of the page; scroll down.)

This story is best read after The Winter Long if possible, as it contains relationship spoilers through that point in the series. It is a story about meetings, and mermaids, and the terrible strain of living up to expectations. It is narrated by Patrick, because he's less likely to punch people for funsies.

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.
Tags: short fiction, toby daye
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iphignia939

January 7 2016, 04:01:08 UTC 1 year ago

YAY THE UNDERSEA! YAY THE TORQUILLS! ...okay, not so much that last one, what with August disappearing and Simon going Dark Side to try and get her back, and whatever the hell happened to September. But still! Early days, before things went terribly wrong!

One of the best thing about these short stories is what we learn about people we already know, and how it alters how we see them. Patrick and Dianda met and raided a kitchen! He is kind of a dork! She is perfectly willing to hit someone with a chair--no, okay, we knew that one. (And it's really interesting when compared to InCryptid stories, which are more about what's going on concurrently to the novels.)

Fantastic as always!