The Delta Pearl 46 — Complete

Awesome chapter Teagan. Perhaps Victor will not mind somethings happen for a reason.

The Delta Pearl 45 — Intone

Music and its colors how beautiful!

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Forgive my hasty intro, my chuckaboos. I hope you can also overlook the lack of illustrations. They are usually a bit part of my posts. However, my “technical difficulties” made it more than hard enough to even post a chapter.

This week’s things:

Influence of the Delta Pearl from Dan Antion https://nofacilities.com/

Purdonium from Barb Taub https://barbtaub.com/

https://antiquesworld.co.uk/antique-coal-purdonium/

Without further ado…

All aboard!

The Delta Pearl

Chapter 45 — Intone

Kellepics at Pixabay

Victor T. Elam scooped up Cal, where the clockwork horse repeatedly walked against the boiler room door. I threw the lever and opened the hatch. The reverberation of the ancient tones engulfed us.

“What ever you do, don’t sing!” I told Victor.

“My voice isn’t all that bad,” he defended himself. “Besides, I don’t know the words anyway.”

“There aren’t words. Just don’t make any singing sounds,” I snapped.

It was rather similar…

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The Delta Pearl 44 — Sing

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Saturday, August 8, 2020

Crystal happy birthday 14 Happy 14th Birthday to Crystal

First things first. Happy 14th Birthday to Crystal! My little feline superhero in the Batgirl mask. She likes to play with the combination of her arched scrubbing brush and teaser-string. On the steampunk background, the brush looks like a sea monster, and super Crystal showing it who is boss.

She came from a colony of feral cats in a dangerous part of town, south of Albuquerque. A rescue group had their eyes open though. They knew her mom was about to give birth, and they intervened. The tiniest kitten I’d ever seen, she popped her head up and looked at me during an adoption event. That was fourteen years ago. She’s my little feline superhero in her Batgirl mask.

I really felt the need to take a break from this serial, and focus on the novel I started way back in…

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The Delta Pearl 43 — Dart

Oh my, the little clockwork scarab got away. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Image by Teagan R. Geneviene, source Pixabay Delta Pearl Composite of Pixaby images by Teagan R. Geneviene

Welcome back to my sanctuary, my chuckaboos. Here are some notes for those of you who were not aboard at the beginning of this riverboat journey. Chuckaboo is a Victorian Era slang word for “dear friend.” Everyone who reads and leaves a friendly comment is my chuckaboo.

The setting is a magical riverboat, the Delta Pearl. It’s a steampunk fantasy, so there are elements of magic, along with real (and potentially real – that’d be the fantasy part again) technology that is suitable to the Steam Era.

The most important crewmembers of the Delta Pearl have gemstone names. They are also known by their positions as if their titles were proper names. The Captain, the Dealer, and the Cook are parental figures for the young protagonist.

The heroine is Émeraude, who recently had her sixteenth…

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The Delta Pearl 42 — Prance

Love the clockwork horse! A stowaway, another scarab?

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toSaturday, July 25, 2020

Javier Rodrigues at Pixabay

Hello, my chuckaboos. I’m glad you could come back to my sanctuary. Yes, this blog is my sanctuary. I am the gatekeeper of this place. It’s a safe haven not just for you, but for me too. It’s safe from vitriol, religion, politics, and negativity. Remember that.

Random Reader Things. It gives me great pleasure when someone thinks about my stories after they’ve left my blog. Last week, GP Cox did that and made a comment at his own blog, mentioning a Clockwork Horse. I was captivated by the thought, and it changed what I had in mind. That became my random thing for this short episode.

When we stopped last time, with Agate and Victor fussing over Émeraude, after her ordeal. You know what a matchmaker the Cook is, especially where Émeraude and Victor are concerned. We’d best…

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