Arise, all you pixel-stained technopeasants!

Welcome to the Fourth Annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! We're giving it away for free around here all day long. You can find more excellent content available through ipstp, which will likely be updated by participants throughout the day. You can also browse through the past three years of IPSTP offerings at that community!

Confused about what International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day is? Read the origin story at Wikipedia.

Here's what I said about IPSTP Day in:
2007 (Year One).
2008 (Year Two).
2009 (Year Three).

Behold my offerings, all currently available through my website, blog, or various publications:

Stories
"When Death Dances," published in EMG-Zine. - (Concerning La Muerta.)
"In Extremis" - (Concerning a working-girl demon.)
"The Brotherhood of Applied Sciences" - (Concerning two immortal brothers in science.)
"Our Lady of Crows" - (Concerning the earliest story of crows.)
"And My Sky Full of Stars" - (Concerning the myths we build from friendship.)

Poetry
"My Small Army of Souls," published in Scheherezade's Bequest at Cabinet des Fées.
"Ireland, A Sapphic Poem," published in The Pedestal Magazine.
"Elegy for a Fallen Angel"
"Exhalation"

You can find further selections of prose and poetry at my website, or by perusing the IPSTP tag on my Livejournal.

I also encourage you to see my interstitial project marrying poetry and photography, Postcards from a Traveling Oracle: To Nine Sisters, from Kyoto. (You can find out more about this project at this post.)



Stay tuned for my next post, concerning further free content brewing for today!

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Twitterfic IPSTP Day Celebration!

As part of my celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I am planning to commit Twitterfic! However, I am definitely going to need your help for this one. It doesn't necessitate already having a Twitter account, but being previously active on Twitter does help. Read on to find out how to participate!



Twitterfics are incredibly concentrated bursts of creativity: microfiction of 140 characters or less. Here are two examples that I've featured here before, both comprising noirish takes on fairy tales:

1

He should've known the ballerina was trouble with her killer paper gam. Yet he smiled as he burned: she'd flared out first.

2

"You got in the way of a good thing, grandma," she said, as her lover's canines snapped tight on old flesh and housecoat all.



So, interested in seeing me write more? Join in the fun and give me a prompt! Send me a tell directly on Twitter @talkstowolves with a single word* and a theme: I'll write whatever you inspire!

If you don't have a Twitter account, you can still participate: just leave your prompts here, and be sure to check my Twitter feed throughout the day.



* I suggest using evocative words on the short side: I only have 140 characters to craft a tiny story, and longer words will eat up space.

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