The Wordsmith's Forge

librarygeek has sponsored "Quicker Than You Can Lower Them" (the second in the latest batch of 4 poems about Warshirt and Spotted Deer) and hopes that someone(s) else will sponsor "Ways to Make the Pain Go Away" ($115, the first in that batch). The main connection with the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls is detailed in the previously published poem "To Prevent Future Tragedies," but the background of violence against women makes the relationship between Warshirt and Spotted Deer pretty fraught. Later on, they will also have to deal with the other rescued victims, some white, several from various reservations around Montana; I have more ideas for that, not written yet, that will build on the first (already posted) and second (in progress) sets of poems in this thread.

Ideally the four poems should be posted in order. Is anyone else interested in chipping in for "Ways to Make the Pain Go Away" so I can post "Quicker Than You can Lower Them" ...? This is the set:

(sponsored by fuzzyred and hangingbyastitch)
"Ways to Make the Pain Go Away" 12-11-20 (fishbowl spillover)
Story Date: Friday, October 2, 2015
Summary: Warshirt deals with a bad day by getting drunk. Spotted Deer takes care of him.
229 lines, Buy It Now = $115

(sponsored by librarygeek)
"Quicker Than You Can Lower Them"
Story Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015
Summary: The morning after, Warshirt feels fine, until suddenly he doesn't.

(sponsored by ng_moonmoth, fuzzyred, technoshaman, and mama_kestrel)
"A Crazy and Drunk Life"
Story Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015
Summary: Upset by everything that's happened, Warshirt seeks advice from Many Tongues.
358 lines, Buy It Now = $179

(sponsored by Anthony &  Shirley Barrette)


"Repair Just About Anything"
Story Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015
Summary: Warshirt and Spotted Deer work things out.
426 lines, Buy It Now = $213

fuzzyred is seeking cosponsors for "Well Served by a Cosmopolitan Attitude" ($162), which introduces Boss Finn to Captain Kelvin.  Its sequel, "Continuities and Changes," is already sponsored.  That one brings in a white hat with capybara traits.  So she'll have a troubled youth expert and a terrific chamfer, creating a good balance between black hat and white hat input -- assisting her in maintaining the medical neutrality she prefers.  If you want to chip in, please leave a comment on that post.

Later on, the idea is to introduce the two new characters to each other and eventually present the new facilities.  I already have notes for those, but when I realized how many separate poems I needed to write, I decided there wasn't room for all that right at the beginning of a fishbowl.