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Yes, I have oracles on the mind. The story I'm writing with an eye toward Coyote Wild's YA issue is about what happens when a young oracle comes out with an unpopular pronouncement.

I think it's going to end up a little long (judging by how many words I have so far), but I will write it until it's done, and then see about cutting down, if need be.

Just today I figured out how the end will work. I took Molly-the-dog and the umbrella crow for a walk to the post office, and on the way, it all came clear (and the secret lay in the oracular pronouncement, after all--as one might expect).

Gosling is the pet name for the oracle; it's what his family always called him before he was discovered to be the oracle. Five is his older sister, who is now his attendant at the temple of the spirits. Guess what her birth place was in the family. Whose futures depend on how Gosling's pronouncement is interpreted? Well, pretty much everyone in the kingdom known as Gate of the Mountain. Who else has an interest in it? The petitioning party from the Kingdom of the Plains, which is a much bigger kingdom and has an agenda.

I had better earn my keep, now, for a bit, however.
I feel...: hopeful
I hear...: Peter Tosh: Bush Doctor
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From:[info]watermelontail
Date: April 28th, 2008 03:27 pm (UTC)
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Ooh...

Want to know more.
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 03:32 pm (UTC)
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If the spirits cooperate, then in time...
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From:[info]watermelontail
Date: April 28th, 2008 03:34 pm (UTC)
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Hope you find them more cooperative than I am.
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 03:36 pm (UTC)
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Right now they're clamoring to be heard, but I have to edit. You can bet that when I put the editing aside, they'll be sulking.
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From:[info]mcblm921
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:30 pm (UTC)
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Sounds intriguing. Now that some of it is down on paper, your muse will have a lodestone to follow.
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
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I do hope so!
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From:[info]newsboyhat
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:36 pm (UTC)
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Sounds great! Sherwood let me be one of the YA editors, so I'll definitely look forward to it :)
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
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Heee! I'm already embarrassed, but I hope you'll like it!
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From:[info]benjybenjy
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:41 pm (UTC)
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OMG. Is the crow still an umbrella?
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:46 pm (UTC)
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Poor thing, I think it can't figure out how to transform back, and I'm of no use to it. But it opens and closes very unwillingly now; clearly being an umbrella is taking its toll... I feel so bad for it.
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From:[info]benjybenjy
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:50 pm (UTC)
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Whuff! A terrible curse. I'm betting only the crow that cast the spell can free the poor bird.
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:51 pm (UTC)
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I shall search out that bird and compel it to release my umbrella.
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From:[info]benjybenjy
Date: April 28th, 2008 04:58 pm (UTC)
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LOL!!!

"Thou crow! Release this bumbershoot ! The power of Christ compels thee!"
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 06:06 pm (UTC)
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"I have the power!!!!"

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From:[info]benjybenjy
Date: April 28th, 2008 06:25 pm (UTC)
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::giggles intensely::
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From:[info]djaza
Date: April 28th, 2008 07:34 pm (UTC)
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Oh, I'm hooked. I want to read it all.
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From:[info]asakiyume
Date: April 28th, 2008 08:42 pm (UTC)
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I will gladly share it when it's finished :-)
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