Fishtales, woohoo ! (Burn 7)

#MermaidAesthetic

I know this is such a tease for what is to come since I don't super have a timeline for finishing anything. I'm really not sure in what order I'll share any of the stuff I'm currently working on (...can I call them WIPs ?) but I wanted to share a little something. These images aren't literal to the story  but more inspiration for the series.

Also...if you have any recs for places I can get names for a male merman let me know...I literally have a character with the placeholder name Mermie.

Speaking of mermaids....Lile, did we ever figure out what your code name Blue Water project was ? 

R&J Fluff ?
So, like I said I have been working on my UL short story but...I may find some room to write short R&J PWP fluff...

Burn 7
Phoenix/Sky is finding life with his parents not what he expected. Maxwell has decided to run for president (since it got taken away from him when Sky/Phoenix was taken) and is dragging his family reluctantly with him. Sky starts school at a UAF Boys Academy and during their public service event in the Sprawl he sees Honeysuckle Street (did you guys get this was a LL ref ?) and remembers his guardian told him to go there if anything went wrong when he first came. In the middle of a school field trip he  decides to take off his syndicate and walk away....

Playlist
Burn 7
-1- Youth by Daughter
- 2 - Rhapsody by Black Violin
- 3 - The War by SYML
- 4 - The Light by Album Leaf

Six Burn !

I've been working on this Haley/ Luce short story and this is me every time I have to type 'Types of Guns' into Google. 

Like any good writer I've been spending 80% of my writing time creating serial aesthetics. Here is one I did for Haley.

 

Burn 6  

Sky/Phoenix  has been back home in Fort Perch for a few weeks. Now that his family is back together and the press is good Kenneth Maxwell has decided he is going to run for president again, much to the surprise of his family.

Also, keep in mind that in the first chapter Sky gets the help of the Atlas captain's daughter Zarina Jeffries and her best friend Faith Morgan, a foster child who had to work to earn her stay on the satellite. Their names come up, that is why I'm mentioning them.

Burn 6

Playlist

- 1 - Tracking Aeroplanes by The Echoelon Effect

- 2 - Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People

 

Let's Do This Thing For Real: Burn Five, Look Alive !

So...it's been a while but.....

I'm back and so is my muse  !

I completely finished Burn a few weeks ago

And I've spent the last few months just writing and picking at  different things and trying things out. While there have been some setbacks it's mostly progress.

I've outlined two mermaid short stories that I'm tentatively calling Fishtales 

I've been getting more words done on FZA but it's been going like this

I'm 7,000 words into my UL thing and I'm looking at it like

 Also, um...

I'm  2,000 7,000 words into a BDSM erotic Vice short story with Luce and Haley

Well, it started out that way it's actually more romance-y now 

The Last Recap

Skylark Gray has grown up on The Atlas Star, a research satellite ship that rarely touches ground on Earth. He is a foster kid and raised by a guardian who is mostly ambivalent towards him except on his birthdays where they spend an hour in the Closet.

On his 16th birthday Sky goes looking for answers and discovers he is Phoenix Maxwell, the only son of the former president of the Republic who was famously kidnapped as a toddler and never found. His guardian had been sending the tapes of the Closet to Maxwell to make him think he kept Sky locked in a closet for 10 years.

He learns his guardian knew  Maxwell during the war and took Phoenix as payback with the help of his fiance Luce Grace, a hacker cyborg in the cartel. They'd hid him by lying about his age by a year and having his name removed from the manifest so he'd never be found.

Sky demands to go back to his real parents and they devise a plan to send him back without implicating Haley but things aren't how Sky imagined. He's never been on Earth before and the environment is foreign to him. He learns his parents have been secretly separated for years. Maxwell distrusts Sky's sudden reapperance and gets violent--believing Sky is working with Haley on something

Fed up, when he sees an opportunity Sky tries to make a run for it but Prescott stops him.

“Phoenix,  I know Maxwell scared you--,” Major Prescott says.

  

“It’s not Maxwell,” I explain and Major Prescott looks so hurt. “I  just want to go back--,”

“No you don’t, sweetheart,” he says softly kissing my forehead. 

“I--,”

 “This is normal. You have something called Stockholm Syndrome,” Major Prescott tells me. “I talked to some specialist about it today.  Max doesn’t understand that it’s a serious condition and he went too far with you. Don’t worry, we’ll get you help.”

I open my mouth to protest but he isn't hearing it as the car takes off down the street.

Burn 5 
Playlist
-1-  Anything You Synthesize by The American Dollar
-2- Your Tale by Hiroshi Yamazaki
-3- Tenuous Gears by Damiak