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Sometimes current events blow dust off old story ideas that I'd thought were lying dormant. This is from a universe I created back in 1999 as the side effect of a high school creative writing assignment. I was thinking mostly about Northern Ireland and the Palestinian territories at the time, but reading about Libya tonight brought my secondary world back to life, at least a little.
Ketchy Wicking, called Ironheart, is central to the history of the Tarranny Isles, but I've tended to write her sideways, glimpsed briefly in other people's stories. This is a slightly more direct approach. (150 words)
( Toward Justice )
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And then, of course, she was captured and gruesomely executed. Which had the unintended side effect of making her a martyr and kicking off a more effective rebellion than she ever would have managed to rouse if she'd lived, though it took several long and bloody years before the Shanish king died and his heir, who had pressing internal problems to deal with, relinquished his claim to (most of) the Tarranny Isles and called his armies home.
...I really must do more with that world someday.
Ketchy Wicking, called Ironheart, is central to the history of the Tarranny Isles, but I've tended to write her sideways, glimpsed briefly in other people's stories. This is a slightly more direct approach. (150 words)
( Toward Justice )
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And then, of course, she was captured and gruesomely executed. Which had the unintended side effect of making her a martyr and kicking off a more effective rebellion than she ever would have managed to rouse if she'd lived, though it took several long and bloody years before the Shanish king died and his heir, who had pressing internal problems to deal with, relinquished his claim to (most of) the Tarranny Isles and called his armies home.
...I really must do more with that world someday.
