SKJAM's Free Microfic Day--Winter Edition
Dec. 17th, 2011 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skjamHi! It's time for me to do a little more writing exercise, so let's a free microfic day.
Name of Day: SKJAM!'s Free Microfic Day
Description of Service: Leave a prompt or prompts in the time window (below) and I will write at least one microfic. The themes this time will be winter, cold and snow; you don't need to include any of those words in your prompt though. No fanfic, this time.
Who is Eligible: Anyone who leaves a prompt on time.
Date/Time Window: December 17 and 18, 2011. It may take longer than that for me to get done, of course.
Tipping? Sure, why not? My Paypal addy is skjam at yahoo dot com. If I get $10 in donations, I'll write to up to two prompts per person. If the total reaches $25, I'll make an icon related to one of the microfics for each requester. Making me a tip banner will count as $5.
Examples: Here's a link to my last microfic day. http://skjam.livejournal.com/185720.html
Name of Day: SKJAM!'s Free Microfic Day
Description of Service: Leave a prompt or prompts in the time window (below) and I will write at least one microfic. The themes this time will be winter, cold and snow; you don't need to include any of those words in your prompt though. No fanfic, this time.
Who is Eligible: Anyone who leaves a prompt on time.
Date/Time Window: December 17 and 18, 2011. It may take longer than that for me to get done, of course.
Tipping? Sure, why not? My Paypal addy is skjam at yahoo dot com. If I get $10 in donations, I'll write to up to two prompts per person. If the total reaches $25, I'll make an icon related to one of the microfics for each requester. Making me a tip banner will count as $5.
Examples: Here's a link to my last microfic day. http://skjam.livejournal.com/185720.html
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Date: 2011-12-18 04:03 am (UTC)In winter, we grow close at night; in summer, we are distant.
Homesteader
Date: 2011-12-19 01:19 am (UTC)It is the hardest, I think, in the summer. I am off in the fields, or the forest, or on another homestead, always working to make a better life for us. She is always near the house, also working. We see each other only when it is time for food or sleep. Always tired, I say barely a word, and I can feel a distance growing between us.
A distance of miles and hours and things left unsaid; things will be better in a few years, I tell her, but patience is a virtue not to be over-tested.
The winter comes with short days and long nights; the work in the fields stops, and we have saved enough food that I do not need to hunt much. Now I work near the house too, and though I am tired, there is time to talk.
We talk as we did when we were newlywed, of past and future and the present. And in the long dark, we do that which is proper between man and wife.
Perhaps this year we will be blessed with a child. Gretchen needs someone to talk to in the summer.
Re: Homesteader
Date: 2011-12-20 02:10 pm (UTC)