The Wordsmith's Forge

Net's back up, I don't know for how long.  I'll do what I can while it's live, and hope it stays.  As before, if it goes out again, please be patient.

[EDIT 9/10/12] And we're done! ravan sponsored the last two verses.

The general fund poll directed all $90.25 into "Strike Twice" so there are 34 (!) new verses.  Look at all the trouble Johan gets into when he visits a seemingly quiet village.  There are 2 verses left to reveal and $.75 left to fully fund the poem.

Sorry about the delay on this; our net connection has been mostly down for days.

This is the free epic, selected in an audience poll, for the September 4, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl reaching the $200 goal.  It came out of the January 17, 2012 bonus fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from rix_scaedu.  This poem belongs to the series Fiorenza the Wisewoman, and you can find out more about that via the Serial Poetry page.

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Check out "The Golden Mask."  Yeah, this had my interest at the first line.

A shorter description is this: The Golden Mask is sort of like Zorro and Catwoman versus Darth Vader and Rasputin, with Caligula as king, wrapped up in Three Musketeers-style swashbuckling and tied together with string cheese. Only way, way sexier than that sounds. It is exactly the kind of full-throttle cheesy adventure that you, in your heart of hearts, crave . . . only we don't fade to black and leave you to write the slash parts yourselves. (Although if you want to, we won't complain.)

marina_bonomi has finished sponsoring "The Lost and Found Legion," which tells about the beginning of The Silk Road Allies.

ravan has sponsored the last two verses of "Strike Twice."  A quiet little denoument in which Althey tries to be helpful and Johan realizes just what he's gotten himself into.

If you are a Torn World supporter, you can now read my poem "Lullaby for a Nap at Noon."
A Northern lullaby about animals and colors.

If you like this poem and want to see more like it, please consider sending me credits or karma through Torn World's crowdfunding options.  Not a Torn World member, but still want to support the work? I have a permanent PayPal button on my LJ profile page.