Awards + 3 sentence fic

[beer_good_foamy]

Second verse, same as the first: It's awards season, and they just announced the winners at absence_oflight. And among all the other very deserving winners (CONGRATS one and all!) I happened to pick up a couple as well:




Thank you so much! Check out all the winners here.

Also, I hope everyone's checking out the Three Sentence Ficathon? I found a prompt for Wolf Hall and had to write this, a little Thomas Cromwell character slice. (I wrote a Buffy one as well, but I'm not entirely happy with how that one came out so I'm planning to turn it into something longer.)

Roughshod

The courtiers keep asking him the same question in the same incredulous tone, as if they're astonished that a... person of his background can even speak.

The honest answer would be that he's fairly certain his hands have forgotten how to shoe a horse, they are used to pens and handshakes now.

But he likes the look in their eyes when he answers yes, he can; as if only for a moment, they realise that they might one day go barefoot.

Comments

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I did not know this ficathon was on.

And I'm delighted to see you writing for Wolf Hall. Properly cynical and lightly threatening Cromwell, too. Yum.

Congrats on the pretties!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And I'm so glad you liked this. Mantel's Cromwell is such a fascinating character - a class traveller in a world where power is supposed to be based entirely on birth, and who's not afraid to flash the power he does have when it suits his purposes. I can't wait to start Bringing Up The Bodies.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! (no cookies today - pie?)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot!