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M. Walsh - Author
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Indie author. Creator of GRAYLANDS. Published three books so far. Deal mostly in fantasy and horror fiction. Trying to make a career out of this nonsense. Surviving.

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From Continuum 3: Homecoming, by JJ Robinson II
#WIP (rough, to say the least)
The #WIPSnips word for November 10th is "local"
#writingcommunity #amwriting #sciencefiction #writesky #writingprompts #WIP (rough, to say the least)

Ha'k learns to drive a really big ship where no one has driven before.
Image text: From Continuum 3: Homecoming, by JJ Robinson II #WIP (rough, to say the least) The #WIPSnips word for November 10th is "local" #WIP (rough, to say the least) Ha'k learns to drive a really big ship where no one has driven before. [ He commanded the giant ship to accelerate and leave stellar orbit toward the plotted departure point. He had to use conventional fusion propulsion, since they lacked accurate navigational information for the regular engines of Vassandrea’s ship this close to the intense gravity of the star. It would be several days before they reached the transit point, so Ha’k slowed his accelerated consciousness to the real >local< rate, and rested. They finally arrived at the departure point, and Ha’k engaged the new engine. Nothing happened. “Everything checks out,” Ha’k said, “but we’re not leaving.” “It takes several seconds to execute the instructions and engage,” sub-Main reported. “I believe real-Main would caution you to be patient.”]
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is a silly aside, Kalypso facto.

Did you like this bit from my WIP "Opportunity Lost"? Please check these out.
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Kalypso was supposedly a water djinni of some renown, mostly due to her inability to lie. Some scholars say she is a myth, others a tragedy, others yet say she was a sea cow that taught herself to be a wizard, but not many listen to those types because books don’t do well in salt water-- though Aquarians would argue otherwise, having managed to deal with it for centuries. Whatever the case may have been, the story goes that Kalypso, bless her heart, was brought before Jealetesh, the Queen of Laaktis and of elementals in general, to answer for some minor crime that had offended the Queen greatly. Knowing that it would cause her great hardship, Kalypso told the truth to her own detriment, to which the Queen punished her with death, so the story goes. So people use the phrase ‘Kalypso fact’ as a statement so true that they would bet their life on it. Though like most expressions, people tend to use it as they see fit, much like Kalypso, who was, in fact, a notorious liar and grifter who had done everything in her power to pretend to be a djinn and steal from local fishermen. They thought she was a water djinni because of a glandular problem that caused profuse sweating, giving her that water djinn gleen that they had always heard about. She had also never once met Jealatesh, though her story lives on in bits and pieces. The story, no matter who is telling the story and what bits and pieces they may change, it never deviates from blessing the heart of Kalypso in a ritualistic curse devised from Jealatesh as an otherworldly slight to the woman that would besmirch her, that even the afterlife-- though Kalypso never felt it in life-- would feel and undying pang of guilt that she could never shake.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sometimes, deep karmic connections can flash us back to long ago lives.

#WIPsnips : #local
#reincarnation #pastlives
Another life, hundreds of years past, flashed in her memory. As if it had happened just moons ago. “We were white. Poor. In the southern Appalachian Mountains. I had to leave you. My wife. To fight the rich men’s war. To ‘protect ourselves from the power-hungry North’.” She saw in her memory the tattered uniform she had to wear as a young man. It had already been died in, by another local boy. Her friend.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#WIPSnips Local. After an unsuccessful assault against the largest city in the world, talks emerge on how to repurpose one of the enemy airships.

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Indeed, it was impressive, a vessel capable of flight and similar in size to one of the countless tradeships I had traveled throughout the years. Capable of housing at least a hundred occupants, if not more. The runes were the biggest issue. Local craftsman, those responsible for the upkeep of the Grand Riotion Capital, were confident they could return the ship to its previous form. Without the runes to grant it flight, however, it would simply remain an impediment to the residents.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Yesterdays snip showed Nat's dreams, why not show her love interest Matt's today.
'Local' -Stubborn Dreams...
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Even after two weeks of classes, he couldn’t arrive with more than a minute to spare. He blamed his disinterest. The class was a basic graduation requirement that most students completed freshman year, but Matt put off in favor of harder requirements. A strategic plan. Fill his schedule with hard, major requirements upfront for a somewhat lighter load as he focused on med school apps. Unlike others, Matt had known his major since his best friend and neighbor Noah died when they were ten after his cancer relapse went unnoticed by the local pediatrician. A man more concerned with tee times and capitalizing on fitting as many patients into narrow time windows as possible. A fact Matt learned later, but which only increased his already strong desire to study medicine and provide his hometown with another, better pediatrician.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The meeting is afoot, machinations of the times gearing up.

The #WIPSnips word of the day is "local"

Check out this scene from my WIP: Where The Battle Is
This image shows a text excerpt from what appears to be a dystopian or speculative fiction novel. The text is displayed in white sans-serif font on a dark background. The passage depicts a disturbing meeting where officials discuss authoritarian policies. It begins with a vulgar interjection followed by a bureaucrat's speech denouncing "un-Americans" and their supposed threat to the nation's legal and moral frameworks. The speaker condemns communism, liberalism, and "debauchery," receiving applause from those assembled. The discussion then turns to the "Virginia Papers" and laws that have made it easier to remove "outsiders and vermin from society." A character named Mrs. Hale describes a humanitarian crisis: fifty million people detained in camps across the Midwest and South, with collapsing prison systems and inadequate resources. The excerpt concludes with Major General Lilly, commander of the Fourteenth Expeditionary Division, proposing a "solution" - suggesting violence against detainees. He mentions operations in Nuevo León (a Mexican state) dealing with "undesirable elements among the local population" using tactics from "the cartel manual." The text depicts fascistic rhetoric, dehumanizing language, mass detention, and implied genocide, presenting a chilling portrait of authoritarian governance and human rights violations.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM