Give a shout out and send candy to PresentPerfect who just celebrated his 1,500th blogiversary!
After that, travel down the break to see something truly ancient.
In case anyone out there is wondering, I try to space out these Fic-A-Minutes by author and genre. I don't want to post up every story by one author in a single month, nor all the adventure stories that I've read. This way I can keep you all guessing. Now that I've covered most of the early, fandom defining stories, this is a lot easier. There's still plenty to come, so I hope you all enjoy the upcoming story briefs.
The Time of Their Lives
By Cold in Gardez
It's a week after Nightmare Night, and the dead have arisen. Zombies, ghosts and skeletons walk Ponyville's streets. It would be pretty terrifying, except that they're so nice. Also, they don't seem to realize they're dead.
This story right here is why I have such a crippling Trixie addiction. I really need to speak to a doctor about getting meds to fix that.
It was the first full length Trixie story I can remember reading, just before I decided to start writing my own.
As for the rest of you, find out what dawn looks like at first light below the break.
Story Notes: Salmon Rose
Demanded by Cold in Gardez!*
A huge thanks to SirNotAppearingInThisFic for pre-reading, Out Of Work Derpy for editing the cover art (putting on the cutie mark), and my vet consultant for giving me the lowdown on what happens at this type of conference.
Despite the Windigo on the cover, this story isn't about them.
Let the trumpets proclaim spoilers!
So, this time I've got some alright ones, and some really alright ones. (I feel like I should be doing something up here, but I don't know what)
The Big Red Button by Jay-The-Brony
What's In The Box? by naturalbornderpy
The Glass Blower by Cold in Gardez
That's right. The Good HiE Podcast will be speaking with Cold in Gardez. He may not be an HiE writer or anything, but he's proficient, well known, and he's here to answer our questions as well as yours. We will be drinking and having fun and being dumb, as usual, and discussing writing too. So come and join us, drink along, and make merry. For Halloween will soon be upon us!
GO HERE TO JOIN US!: https://www.twitch.tv/mikesnipe
Cold in Gardez’s Lost Cities is a masterpiece of pony literature. Themselves inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, these are stories which contain no on-screen characters. Instead, they are a description of a place – a dead place, an abandoned place, a city or fortress or tower that once held people, but which now lays in ruin or is otherwise abandoned.
Putting off reading stories and then doing lots of stuff less interesting than reading stories is stupid.
I still managed to procrastinate by wasting time on Reddit.
But I did get some stories read!
Today’s stories:
Horsefeathers by Fervidor
Whisk by Present Perfect
Mechanical Aptitude by Estee
by Super Trampoline
The Trouble with Phoenixes by Cold in Gardez
Back in December, when I first started this set of reviews, I wrote:
It is very easy to try and write reviews of a lot of short stories. It lets you get through large numbers of works in a short period of time… but it also means you’re avoiding many of the longer works, many of which I added to my Read It Later list because they were supposed to be quite good. What is the point of having such stories on your list if you are always going to put off reading them?
There are few feelings quite so nice as that of success. And success is what I have, pulling off just over 62,000 words in January. It reminds me of why I like deadlines and pressure. When I see a due date coming and take a look at what's really needed to meet my goals, I tend to go into worker bee mode, and that's exactly what happened in the last three weeks. If I can do something like this on a monthly basis, releasing my big stories doesn't seem like such a big chore. As things stand
My computer may be gone, but my reviews shall ever remain. A new computer is en route in many, many pieces, but I am done wallowing in self-pity over the loss of my extended brain.
Time to get some reviews done. You folks have been busy.
Today’s stories:
The Riddle of the Sphinx by Cold in Gardez
Barnstormer by GAPJaxie
Entry #649 by KitsuneRisu
Baby Pictures by King Moriarty
Pardon my dust; it has been a while since I last released a review set.
Hopefully, at least one of these stories will have been worth the wait.
Today’s stories:
Raven by SaintChoc
Friend of a Not-So-Different Stripe by Pascoite
Life Amongst the Living by Kamikakushi
The Contest by Cold in Gardez
Together by Silver Tongue
Two days until the start of Everfree Northwest, but I leave for the Emerald City tomorrow. If any of you are going to be there and want to meet up, send me a PM and I’ll give you some contact information; I don’t have a smart phone, so the most reliable way of contacting me while I’m wandering around the convention is likely to be an actual, honest-to-god phone call.
I know, shocking.
Sorry for my relative silence this week – I entered into the last writeoff, then read some more writeoff stories, and spent a lot of time writing stories that I didn’t end up feeling quite happy with, and am going to have to heavily revise.
However, I did finally hit on a revision I did like, so I published another story this week!
Howdy folks! It’s been a few weeks since I last did one of these. My last set of Read It Later reviews was published on May 8th, so it’s been almost two weeks since then!
Yes, 13 days. Only 13 days. It’s crazy though, because it feels like it’s been more than a year!
It is almost Christmas, and that means that it is time for me to get off my butt and get people stuff to read for the holidays. I have been remiss in getting review sets posted; hopefully the rapidly approaching end of the year will encourage me to get more done.
This is a rather eclectic set of stories in some ways, but in another way, all but one of them manages to capture a lovely little sentiment. I wonder if you can guess which one that is from the titles?
It is amazing how long a couple weeks can feel like.
At the time of writing, less than a week ago I was at Everfree Northwest.
It feels like it was forever ago already.
I was feeling like I haven’t recommended a story in a long time… but the last story I read that got added to my Recommended list was read on May 11th, only 11 days before I wrote this introduction (which I then took four days to post).
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