Blackout!

[dialecticdreamer]

I have made blackout on my bingo card! The B# is part of the naming system for the files, so I can find them again more easily. Since the whole card is blacked out, I didn’t bother noting the columns. I’ve also clustered the obviously interconnected stories in the last five links, but finding the gaps will be very, very easy. I look forward to any new readers, so let me know if the stories appeal.

I write gentle fiction: no sex or drugs, very rare swearing (with warning in the header), and any violence is even more rare, warned for, and usually offscreen. (The aftermath of an incident is more interesting, frankly.) Everything in this list fits into a world of four-color superheroes done more realistically, in a universe created by ysabetwordsmith. For anyone unfamiliar with the universe, the "Callout at the OK Corral" sets up enough of the world to make sense, because it's about how regular people would get by in a world with superheroes and supervillains.

B22: mystery : Mystery and Medicine
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1053753.html

B23: tall tale : A Night In
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1054195.html

B3 cautionary tale: Rosa’s Results
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1051903.html
For anyone interested in this story, the previous events are Rosa’s unsympathetic victim blaming, a customer hears her snide comment about the victim, and lets the air out of her truck tires. In short, Rosa gets what she’s wanted, but not what she expected.

B15: free space : Crucial Meeting
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1053443.html

B11: Drama : Questions and Answers (3 parts)
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1052887.html

The big CIty Council meeting that shapes the last two stories is titled, “Callout at the OK Corral.”
Here’s the link to part one of three. I’m including it because I think I did a particularly tricky bit of writing well, and so that the other two stories have a proper foundation upon which to stand.

B7: satire: Silence of the Representatives
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1052179.html
This is demifiction. That’s the fake news playing in the background of any movie or television scene, but not the print articles put up in set dressing (as the text is usually nonsense in those).

B1 Gentle fiction : A Long Evening
https://dialecticdreamer.dreamwidth.org/1051625.html

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

congrats on the black out

Thank you!

[dialecticdreamer]

I've been wishing for the extra energy to actually join in on a bingo card for months. Getting out of the gate with a blackout is very, very satisfying.

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Go you!

Re: Thank you!

[cornerofmadness]

no doubt

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm delighted to see how inspiring this card was for you.

Re: Yay!

[dialecticdreamer]

Best of all, I have either finished stories (1500-2k words), or the opening 500 words of fifteen other stories. I made one poem, finished, one character description that is for reference, and added 500 words to an earlier story with a second square's concept. That means I'll have finished twenty-three stories well before the end of the month.

[zero_pixel_count]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[dialecticdreamer]

Now, I can use the fills as the start of longer stories, for the ones that I didn't finish in the first sitting.

[curiosity]

Yay! Congratulations!

Thank you!

[dialecticdreamer]

It was so satisfying to get back to this!

Re: Thank you!

[curiosity]

Yay! I'm so glad. You deserve good things. :)