Garden of Prose: closed!

Prompting is closed! But I had nine different prompters and $10 in donations :) You can still donate to extend your prompt or anyone else's, so the option is still open of reaching the $25 donation goal. I've posted the first two pieces and will continue to post the rest as I complete the required wordcount.

Posted:
A Conversation of Thought & Mind to ysabetwordsmith's prompt
Steam Therapy to wyld_dandelyon's prompt

Prosy: A Sea Garden

Title: A Sea Garden
Word count: 390
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: pippin's: Mermaids grow herbs in the corpses of the drowned.
Notes: This mermaid appears to be one of the elder sisters from "The Little Mermaid." More of this story is available to be sponsored!


Ayda was seventeen when the idea first came to her. She and her sisters—all but the youngest—had gone up to the surface, only the five of them with no guards, as was their prerogative now that they were old enough. They could see the surface roiling, the wind and the rain whipping it up, and when they came close enough, the bright flashes of light striking the water. This was their favorite time: the storms on the sea.( Read more... )

Prosy: Clan Doctor

Title: Clan Doctor
Word count: 813 (total: 3,238)
Rating: PG
Prompt: kayim's: anything post-apocalyptic in which a doctor character is having to rely on herbs as medicine. ... make the character one who isn't actually a doctor - just kind of thrown into the role...
Notes: This is incomplete, obviously, since I barely reached a mention of the herbs!


Asraidh woke up with a start. There was something—but even in her sleep-addled state, coming out of a dream in which she was back in her old house and her sister was making her pancakes, she recognized it quickly. It was a cough, and it didn’t sound like a good one. It was coming from her left, which meant it was one of three people: Yenul, Kaesh, or Adhe.

Nothing in the sound told her who it was. It was only a cold feeling in her gut that told her it was Kaesh. At eight years old she was the youngest member of their little clan. She was Asraidh’s niece—the daughter of her dead sister.( Read more... )