Story's up; came in at just over 1100 words, which is super-short for me.
A Heap of Broken Images, which is another of those working titles that made it through to the final version. Root and Harold and the Fisher King, blasted lands and castle towers and the usual amounts of landscape and botanical imagery.
I had the, um, root of the idea a long time ago, but it came together when I realized that Ms. Groves thinks she's Galahad and the Machine is the Holy Grail. Or that made sense to me; dunno if it will to anyone else. *shrugs*
A Heap of Broken Images, which is another of those working titles that made it through to the final version. Root and Harold and the Fisher King, blasted lands and castle towers and the usual amounts of landscape and botanical imagery.
I had the, um, root of the idea a long time ago, but it came together when I realized that Ms. Groves thinks she's Galahad and the Machine is the Holy Grail. Or that made sense to me; dunno if it will to anyone else. *shrugs*