Halloween 2016 IF – Author’s Notes
Thank you, once again, so much for playing in this little Halloween event. I hope both players and readers enjoyed it—I know I had a wonderful time! I want to give a huge shoutout to everyone who played! My biggest fear when I started this was that nobody would comment and it would flop before […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Conclusion
In the end, it wasn’t much of a decision. Sweet’s father couldn’t be set free, and putting him back to sleep would just leave the problem for the future, however near or distant. Leaving him alive in any way left open a connection between him and Sweet that might never close, might always keep Sweet […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 25
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] Septimus’s brows creased in stress and fear as he closed his eyes and thought about all their options: everything he’d laid out, everything they’d thought, everything they could do. Warmth. Hope. Dreams. Love. Fire. Destruction. Fear. Sacrifice. He knew which of the […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 24
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] Sweet was staring at him, frantically afraid and deeply unsure. Those uncountable eyes were focused on Septimus with a single-minded intensity, and Septimus held up both hands to try to ward that fear off. “Okay, let’s get back to the basics,” Septimus […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 23
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] Septimus swallowed back the scream he could feel bubbling up in his throat. It was Sweet, and he knew it was Sweet, but even so, he could hardly bear to look. It was an image that would haunt his nightmares for years, […]