The Realm of Katherine Vick

 A little piece set in the Realm of The Disposable for you, written to given an outsider's view of the strangenesses of our annual festivities. Merry Christmas everyone. :) Festive Spirit “It’s not going to shift, is it?” Bow the Serving Man glanced at his younger brother Scrape as they paused for a moment in their task for a necessary breather. Prickly green spikes now festooned their thankfully sturdy livery tunics, making them resemble something akin to a pair of disgruntled green hedgehogs. The enormous spruce tree, heedless of their efforts, remained firmly wedged in the door frame of the Royal Palace’s Great Hall. He shook his head in a shower of needles. “Doesn’t look like it. We may have to find some help.” “What help?” Scrape leaned against the wall as he pulled dark spikes disconsolately from his clothing and flicked them tersely to the floor. “Everyone’s busy . The cooks and the rest of the kitchen staff have been at it for days down there. All the artisans hav...

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 In honour of the fact there is the possibility of snow in the forecast a mere three days into December, I've dusted off this old dialogue only challenge story I wrote a while back in a distant writing community. It is short and daft. The prompt, I believe, was a picture of some snowy palm trees: Elemental “What were you doing? No, seriously I mean it – what were you doing?” “Look, I just slipped, all right? How was I supposed to know the damn thing was loaded?” “Was it loaded ? It is the Horn of Eternal Cold – what did you think I’d done, put the safety catch on?” “I was just holding it – I didn’t expect it to just go off like that! I wasn’t even pointing it at anything!” “Why were you holding it anyway? It’s got nothing to do with you!” “I just wanted to see what it felt like! My travels are always so warm, so happy, so vibrant – I’ve never known the cold before…” “Well, you know it now. You just dropped a dollop of snow the size of a blue whale on top of Barbados !...