Laura Morrigan

CW: Attempted sexual assault Two things happened last summer. I kissed April, and I got bitten by a werewolf. I It started at a party. I was never invited to the cool kid’s parties, why would I be? But Giselle and I had been planning to crash, and even though her family had moved to another state, she texted me that night, telling me I should still go and tell her all about it. I went through my older sister Evie’s wardrobe, what she’d left behind when she went to college. She had been the cool one, the one who got invited to parties and fitted in. I found a trendy flowy dress, with the tag still attached. I was pretty sure she had shoplifted it, Evie could never resist a five finger discount. After I put on some makeup, I figured that if no one looked closely, I could pass as one of the in-crowd. I texted Giselle, “omw to crash” “Wish I was there its family game night ugh”, she texted back. I laughed. I had been friends with Giselle since the first day of primary school, her family wa

This short story was based around the prompt "March Hare" More on Mythic March here , here  and h ere * “She’s absolutely mad!” Henry spat, slamming his beer down on the bar. “Now, now, you’re new to Meadowsweet, we have a lot of characters around here”, Lem the barman said, wiping up the spilled beer with a dirty looking tea towel. Lem was just how Henry would have imagined a small town bartender to look: big, beefy and balding, with an anchor tattoo on one bulging bicep. The fact that Lem preferred words over violence and had been faithfully married to his husband for twenty-six years broke the stereotype somewhat. “You think she’s a character?” Henry said, “She yelled at me for buying traps just today! Said I was a murderer!” This was only the last in a long line of insults that included treating his yard as if it was her own (“foraging”, she claimed) and laughing at him that time he split his trousers in town. “Ah, everyone is really into conservation around these parts”,

My friend Yasmin (who ran the tea duel back in 2020) and I roadtripped down for the Steampunk Victoriana fair on 12th to 13th March at the Goulbourn Waterworks. Because it was such a long trip we only got about 1.5 hrs in the first day, but we got to experience the whole day Sunday. It was amazing for me to be at a Steampunk event again after 2 years! Hopefully there will be lots more! Me with one of the Brass Harpies Blouse: eBay Skirt: Nineteen50 secondhand (worn with a petticoat) A steampunk inventions display The steampunk parrot moves and talks Sanjex Seratti: Vintage Wonders and Entertainments Miss Nimmitabel I can't remember this gorgeous chihuahua's name but she was 18 and dressed to match her owner. She has epilepsy and comes everywhere with them. I think she was the winner of the pet competition. Steampunk dogs and their bird sister Some finely dressed folks: The crew of the Airship Sirius has got much larger since I last met them in 2014! The New Empire Ballroom Ra