In the tenth year of the Siren War, a wanderer meets an old flame in the wasteland. Will they settle their differences reasonably, or bond over a fight with vicious monsters?
Yes.
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I remember reading this once before.
Feels incredibly incomplete. Enticing, though.
Nothing says "the power of rock" like the pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck.
In all seriousness, this was certainly interesting. I'm rather picky with my post-apocalyptic stories. There needs to be a glimmer of hope for me to leave satisfied. Here, it feels like something of a toss-up, especially given the death. Still, it does end on a largely positive note, all things considered. Thank you for it.
More please!
Not that I read a lot of post-apocalypse, but EqG post-apocalypse seems especially rare.
Whenever I read something of yours, I'm always struck by how mixed I feel about it. There are little negatives like Pinkie's death for no apparent purpose to the plot, but tons of little gems in dialogue and setting.
But ultimately, like always, the story compelled me to stop and think about it, so clearly you're doing something right.
amazing start
More world building, like why everyone not in the local area didn't try to stop the Dazzlings (or how they failed) would have been nice.
Love some of the imagery here. It's a cool, vibrant short, the only real flaw is that it really makes everyone want to see way more of the setting.
Reminds me of some of the odder Heavy Metal storylines but lacking in the sex those had - not that that's a bad thing, honestly. Or maybe I'm just mis-remembering a magazine for an audience far older than the age I was when I first found what little I saw ...
One of the things I never liked about classic Heavy Metal was the lack of meat to their stories. They were always vignettes. Small slices of some larger story that implied a background without expressing it but never fully realizing their potential because of that self-imposed (or perhaps editorially imposed) limitation. Or maybe I was reading the middle of an in-progress story that I didn't realize was larger than the bit I managed to catch between the slats. Regardless, just as I was getting a handle of the characters and the setting ... it was over and left me either wanting more of a glimpse into the fantastic world or wondering what exactly was said and why.
This is the feeling I'm getting here. Not only is the setting itself almost pulled directly out of a 1980's Heavy Metal magazine - what with the magical electric guitar powers and the cyberpunk techno zombies and such - but it seems almost like the middle-end of a larger serial work. And I'm not quite sure what to take away from the ending ...
For what it's worth, please consider my comparison to HM as a compliment. Despite how critical I may seem to be in the above, I've always thought the late 70's/early 80's Heavy Metal magazines to be some of the best 'strange tales' I've ever read. It may be nostalgia but you grabbed my nostalgia chain and pulled very hard here.
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I've never read the magazine but the movie is one of my favorites and yea. In many ways this feels straight out of that, in a good way.
bleak, but not depressing,
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For anyone confused, this is what we're referencing:
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And I imagine such a song would sound a bit like this:
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Oh dear. If I had known I would get this reaction, I might have planned to write more in this setting. But In truth, all I wanted to do was A) give Flash some character by having him channel Mad Max; and B) write a story whose imagery invoked the kind of crazy crap you see on album covers. Like this one:
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Still, if I get a good enough idea, I wouldn't be opposed to writing another one, just for fun. But I have a passion project to work on first.
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This story may be my least successful yet, but feedback like this makes it worthwhile. Thank you.
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Would you believe it was accidental? A lot of the aspects you mention are inspired by the game Brutal Legend, though I'm sure those were inspired by... well, you know. But I'm glad to have made such an impression, and as I say, it makes it worth the effort.
Gonna go with the consensus that, as much as this works on its own, it's even better as a teaser. The only thing that threw me in this as a standalone story is what's even up with Nibiru. Is that a reference to the comics or something?
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I loved everything about the game Brutal Legend except the game.
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It wasn't in the comics, but it should be. I was inspired by the urban legend of the Nibiru cataclysm. Sometimes, the muse wants to be weird. I thought I might drop a few odd references and leave the rest up to people's imaginations.
Come to think of it, if this year's EqG4 gives that franchise's popularity a boost, I might just write about how it happened.
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Agreed. Also, I want more of this.
I reviewed this story as part of Read It Now Reviews #86.
My review can be found here.
7346776 Thumbs up for Thundersteel.
But really, great fic. As short as it is, I love how visually impactful you managed to make this wasteland. Also, very good job on the characters.
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Goddammit, this is so fucking goofy and you just ran with it and turned it into something great. :D
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shucks, I hope you're right, 'cause even I'm not sure what to make of this crazy thing.
Have to agree with PresentPerfect. This is, indeed, some very goofy heavy-metal album cover stuff, and you've taken it and made an entirely good, functioning story about it that leaves the reader interested in seeing more, somewhere, somehow.
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Unfortunately, while the few who read this liked it, there just isn't much of a market for this sort of thing to begin with. But I plan on trying to get into writeoffs once my current project is done, and it may be a useful mine for story ideas then, so you never know.
Before I read this, what is the Dark tag for ?
And how bad does it get ?
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Just a couple of action scenes, and mentions of tragic things happening in the past. Pretty tame, by the standards of my stories.
7343526 Really? Where? Can I please get a link?
Will this story have a sequel?
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Cynewulf refers to when I initially posted the rough draft in gdocs, one year before it ran here. The delay was due to my being unable to get some passages just right at the time. (Also, just FYI, it's considered bad form to respond to old posts.)
A sequel is doubtful, since I've been trying to move on to writing original fiction. But someday, if I'm bitten by the writing bug and the stars align just right, who knows?
That was absolutely bonkers!
Wow. So fundamentally ridiculous, and yet it plays it just right, daring you to doubt it, and rewards you when you just give in and run with the madness.
And that's a very touching ending that's PERFECT for the story and its tone, as bizarre as the tone is. I love that you can pick something that weird and keep it tonally correct throughout, right up to a satisfying ending. It is simultaneously a weird little prank of a story, and a truly fine and gifted work.
Rarity-applause!
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Thank you, thank you! Would you believe this crazy thing came out of a bet, of sorts? Reia Hope declared that no writer in the world could make Flash Sentry appealing, and I took that as a challenge. Based on feedback like yours, I seem to have won my bet.