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Fiction: Morwenna
Aug. 10th, 2014 11:17 pmTitle: Morwenna
World: The Ursulan Cycle
Word count: 2,477
Rating: PG-13 for underage (by modern standards) sexuality and childbirth
Notes: Another story about Ursula! One of the things I'm asking myself about this series is, "what makes this different from just slapping different names and pronouns on Arthurian stories?" The first answer that came to mind was "pregnancy and childbirth."
Ursula did not want to get out of bed. This was not unusual, but what was strange was the reason she didn’t want to get out of bed. She felt as though the room was going to start swaying if she did. And she hadn’t had anything to drink last night. Not at all.
“Come on, Ursula, wake up,” her sister Kate urged her.
Ursula shook her head into the bedclothing. “Don’t want to.”
“Are you sick?”
“Yeah. Feel like the room’s spinning. Like I’m going to throw up all over the place if I move.”( Read more... )
World: The Ursulan Cycle
Word count: 2,477
Rating: PG-13 for underage (by modern standards) sexuality and childbirth
Notes: Another story about Ursula! One of the things I'm asking myself about this series is, "what makes this different from just slapping different names and pronouns on Arthurian stories?" The first answer that came to mind was "pregnancy and childbirth."
Ursula did not want to get out of bed. This was not unusual, but what was strange was the reason she didn’t want to get out of bed. She felt as though the room was going to start swaying if she did. And she hadn’t had anything to drink last night. Not at all.
“Come on, Ursula, wake up,” her sister Kate urged her.
Ursula shook her head into the bedclothing. “Don’t want to.”
“Are you sick?”
“Yeah. Feel like the room’s spinning. Like I’m going to throw up all over the place if I move.”( Read more... )