There is a house in New Orleans...
Mar. 11th, 2014 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seanan_mcguireTo celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, it's time for some free fiction. Hooray!
When last we left Verity Price and her boyfriend, Dominic De Luca, they were setting out on an epic road trip in a rented U-Haul with a colony of talking mice. It's...hard to get much more surreal than that, but with Verity involved, you know we're going to try. She needs to get Dominic used to the idea of her family, and that means it's time to start introducing him to people.
People like Auntie Rose, who is smart, sassy, and takes no bullshit, and just happens to have died almost fifty years before Verity was even born.
Nobody's perfect.
You can download "The Ghosts of Bourbon Street" now from the InCryptid short fiction page. This story chronologically overlaps with Half-Off Ragnarok, and is better read after you've read the book. (Obviously I can't control this, but hey, I can give recommendations.)
This also serves as your discussion post.
When last we left Verity Price and her boyfriend, Dominic De Luca, they were setting out on an epic road trip in a rented U-Haul with a colony of talking mice. It's...hard to get much more surreal than that, but with Verity involved, you know we're going to try. She needs to get Dominic used to the idea of her family, and that means it's time to start introducing him to people.
People like Auntie Rose, who is smart, sassy, and takes no bullshit, and just happens to have died almost fifty years before Verity was even born.
Nobody's perfect.
You can download "The Ghosts of Bourbon Street" now from the InCryptid short fiction page. This story chronologically overlaps with Half-Off Ragnarok, and is better read after you've read the book. (Obviously I can't control this, but hey, I can give recommendations.)
This also serves as your discussion post.
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Date: 2014-03-14 03:03 am (UTC)My evil plan is working.
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Date: 2014-03-12 04:31 pm (UTC)BWAH.
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Date: 2014-03-12 01:35 am (UTC)Thank you again, Seanan. You have no idea how much this really made my week (and considering I just got booted from my job without warning, this REALLY totally made my week) and I can't stop grinning. ^___^
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Date: 2014-03-12 04:38 pm (UTC)Anyway, fun story, and it's nice to see scenes from the road trip. Hope there's more to come....but I'll also be amused if Verity does stop in in Ohio :)
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Date: 2014-03-12 06:49 pm (UTC)"I didn't defect, I was born defective."
For some reason this made me laugh even harder than Australia's danger rating. It may have had to do with the fact that it was 1 AM.
And Verity messing with Alex during the phone call.....priceless.
Basically it was all kinds of wonderful.
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Date: 2014-03-14 03:47 am (UTC)I do adore them, though. And I love having multiple windows to the world at once.
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Date: 2014-03-13 02:22 am (UTC)I'm a bit confused by one thing, though. First it says that Verity borrowed Jermaine's coat so she could climb the house. Then it says Verity gave the coat to Rose so she could become solid - but does that work if the owner isn't living? Then when Rose takes off the coat, and again when Verity picks it up, it's referred to as Dominic's coat. Am I missing something?
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Date: 2014-03-14 02:19 am (UTC)Happy St. Patrick's!
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Date: 2014-03-17 01:58 pm (UTC)Thank you very much! And also, squee!
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