Ooh! Gorse is on my list to acquire as it looks right up my street, didn't know there was a sequel too!

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It could have made her too powerful for the party, but in practice everything else about that character meant she was a liability more often than she was any kind of useful 😄

Years ago in a VtM game, I played a Malkavian who (among other things) was a paranoid amnesiac, & I made her blind via the 'merits & flaws' mechanic but didn't fancy any of the merits that would balance it, so the GM (my other half) gave me L5 auspex for free, & she 'saw' in auras the whole time.

😍 So teeny!

I like Daysleeper a lot, but I love Nightswimming. And also Find the River.

Floki here is the epitome of 'Spine? What spine?' (There are any number of photos I could have used to illustrate this...!)

'as her light-burned silhouette echoes on the kitchen ceiling for priests to mutter at'

3rd place: 'Lucille Ascends' by @jmgatford.bsky.social - a brilliant example of anadiplosis (breaking out a word I learnt from a @mattkendrick.bsky.social workshop!)
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'I know about crying like I know about rivers and their tributaries.'

2nd place: 'I Search Her Eyes for Rivers' by Hannah Retallick - love the use of geography metaphors for grief.
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'you could leave post-it notes in strange places that describe things you like about me, and they’d probably be things I don’t like about me at all'

1st place: 'Ways to Say that Thing You've Never Said' by Letty Butler - a fab list story
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