Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Wyatt Cain cantered through the gates into the Royal Palace's compound. The Royal Army hadn't finished renovating the former Longcoat headquarters, but the Palace next to the barracks gleamed in the suns. He wondered which tower housed DG before shaking his head. A lowly Tin Man--even if he was a hero of the realm--shouldn't be concerned about such matters. He cast one more glare at the Palace before stopping his horse in front of the guard on duty. He tilted his fedora as he looked down at the uniformed young man. "Commander Wyatt Cain to see Captain Cain."

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Summary: Away from the familiar O.Z., the runaway Princess and the Tin Man join Captain "Blood-rage" Betsy Bobbins' quest and cross swords with sullen pirates, the navy out to stop Bobbins, and a legendary evil lurking in the Nonestic Ocean.

The second story in the Nonestic Tales series takes place an annual (year) after the Tin Man miniseries. DG runs away from the princess gig and Cain is sent after her, and they end up outside the borders of the Outer Zone with pirates. Because nearly everything is better with pirates!

On a more serious note, this is the story where all my headcanons began to bounce around and really expand the worldbuilding. I pulled from L. Frank Baum's original Oz series, Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, and a fascinating movie adaptation of Return to Oz from 1985 that also traumatized many of its viewers. I ended up making a more detailed history timeline than I normally do, making maps to illustrate the changes to the landscape between what we know of Oz and what the miniseries portrayed as the Outer Zone, and finally detailing out the solar system the best I could so I could figure out the calendar. I hope you enjoy this novel and the series it is a part of.

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

She propped her head on her elbow and considered the nude man standing at the large window. The glow beyond the glass tinted his scarred muscles and fair hair green. Heat pooled in her belly as she remembered how those strong limbs had tangled with hers on this bed. But he seemed content to expose his glory to Central City below. "I married as exhibitionist."

His lips stretched into a grin. "Only for you."

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Summary: Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling around and snow in your hair. Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel over Washington Square. Our breath comes out white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air. Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there.

This short prequel story to the Tin Man miniseries had two germinating ideas. The first developed from my analysis of a scene we get in the miniseries:

So later after Jeb has said Zero killed Adora, after seeing Jeb has his own suit with his camp (and that must have made packing in a hurry a bitch. I hope it came in handy with interrogation sessions.), Cain has a nightmare of finding a time loop projection of Adora's death. Not even her real death, a projection of it! *Pause to snuggle issues!Cain*

Okay, so now that we've established that we interpret these two scenes through Cain's macho POV, here comes the question that popped into my head. What if Adora was the one in the suit?

The second germinating idea was hear "Diamonds and Rust" by Blackmore's Night. The lyrics were haunting and for me fitted perfectly for a woman who lost her husband and the pain involved in the memories. And the story grew from there. I have linked it directly to the Nonestic Tales series, but it also works as a prequel for Dragons and Ninjas, Not His Kink, and Alchemy. Content warning for a suicide. I hope you enjoy this story.

Six Sentence Sunday: Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Turbo

Wars Are Won By Those Who Dare: Turbo

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

"You sure are going to a lot of trouble." Vinnie leaned against the bathroom's doorjamb, and watched Throttle buttoning the black, long-sleeved shirt. "You two should be way past the bribing into her pants stage."

Throttle rolled his cybernetic eyes. Who in the universe picked me to teach Vinnie about relationships? "Trust me, it's easier if you keep the lady happy. Charley wants to go to this concert, and I want Charley happy."

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Summary: Turbo arrives in Chicago, and secrets Throttle has kept buried for most of his life now threaten Charley.

Let Us Give Thanks (BookWorm's Library | Ao3) ended up being my headcanons about Charley's past, but Turbo was all about my Throttle headcanons from the start. His past, other than dating Carbine, hadn't been established by the show, so we know even less than what we know about Modo and Vinnie. And I had a blast filling in some blanks and writing the bros before the Plutarkian-Martian War. I hope you enjoy the story, and the rest of the series.

Six Sentence Sunday: Evil Jack: For Worse

Evil Jack: For Worse

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Hannah Davidson leaned her back against the wall of her mother's garage. The sun shone down on her knees. Her uncles told her to guard the bag of kitty litter that towered over her head. But they just wanted her to watch while they played.

Uncle Modo revved his purple bike near the end of the block. The tires hit the puddle of oil in front of the Last Chance, but he controlled the skid heading for the bottle.

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Summary: Jack returns to Chicago determined to use Charley and Throttle's drunken mistake to destroy the Biker Mice.

This story finally deals with the Vinnie-Charley-Throttle triangle that has been hovering in the background of the Evil Jack series (until the characters decided to change things up in the future on me--authors, always the last to know). And Jack makes his reappearance to cause deadly trouble. I hope you enjoy the story and the series.