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In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to visit the more fun it'll be, so go ahead, open your journal and help spread the fun!

[ETA: I should have known better than to do this meme, I think. I'm terrible at choosing presents for people. Still, it's only three weeks late; could have been worse.]

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Trick or treat! :D

Trick or treat!

You've written about how much you like Aaron Allston's X-Wing books. Do you know about his other stuff?

His Doc Sidhe series (which is retro-pulp 1930s adventure stories, but with elves! elves in airships! elves jumping into elegant saloon cars and shouting Follow That Cab!) is available as e-books, in a wide variety of formats, here. The first one is part of the Baen Free Library program, and can be read for free.

Here, have a cute animal picture:

And now click here to read the caption it had when I first saw it.

Crossover time!

"Lady Heterodyne," the guard reported, "we found this wandering around near the East Gate. It appears to be some kind of clank."

"Again with the 'clank'," groused the intruder. "It's not my fault my joints are noisy, I had a rough landing. If it bothers you so much, give back my knapsack, it's got an oilcan in it."

"Landing?" said Agatha. "You came by airship?"

"Dimensional portal," said the clank, its blue eyes tracking around the room. "I don't think this is where I was aiming for, either. I knew I shoulda taken a left turn at the Vampire Dimension."

A drabble for a drabble. This one's a crumpled leaf from the Dark Wastebasket:

"I'm curious," Delilah said. "What did my mother see in you?"

Lineus gulped, and looked down at Delilah's hand, resting with deceptive lightness on his arm. His answer, when it came, was just barely audible.

Delilah tightened her grip verrry slightly. "Speak up, uncle dear."

Lineus licked dry lips, and whispered, "Understanding female companionship... mostly..."

Delilah stared. "What?"

"You heard me..."

"You're joking!"

"Under these conditions...?"

Delilah attempted to gather startled thoughts. "You mean that you're..."

"My name's... actually Deirdre," said her aunt. "All this... is just because Gideon gets embarrassed having his little sister tagging along behind him everywhere..."

Better him than Action Scientists Lewis & Martin stumbling in. Disaster would have ensued for the Multiverse.

I've got the first one on my Kindle, yes! :-)

I'm not getting through it very fast, though - I find, oddly enough, that big honkin' 19th-century ebooks are a quicker read on the Kindle than modern novels, relative to their length. (I think it's because the Kindle screen is so small that a "quick read" novel, where I could take in all the pertinent information on two facing pages in about 30 seconds flat, requires four page-turns and slows me down. Whereas the Three Musketeers or Moby Dick has different enough language and phrasing that I'd be reading at Kindle-speed anyway. *g*) And the library only has one of the later ones - "Sidhe Devil".

Er, that was mostly off topic... XD

That is indeed a highly cute pic, thank you! :-)

And :lol: at the caption.

Well, that's... a revelation and a half, and no mistake :-)

I think actually "Doc Sidhe" and "Sidhe Devil" are all there is so far; calling it a "series" might have been something of an exaggeration.

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