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    <title>Space Oddity</title>
    <published>2025-08-08T17:25:40Z</published>
    <updated>2025-08-08T17:32:26Z</updated>
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    <category term="urban fantasy"/>
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    <dw:music>Space Oddity by Ramin Djawadi</dw:music>
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    <content type="html">Title: Space Oddity&lt;br /&gt;Words: 2,386 words&lt;br /&gt;Rating: PG&lt;br /&gt;Warning: Transphobia, suicidal ideation &lt;br /&gt;Genre: Speculative urban fantasy&lt;br /&gt;Summary: Recently outed trans woman, Natalia, finds hope and love in the Proteans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://thecrankydragon.dreamwidth.org/857.html#cutid1"&gt;Space Oddity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thecrankydragon&amp;ditemid=857" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>Highwayman</title>
    <published>2025-07-13T14:59:45Z</published>
    <updated>2025-07-13T15:02:47Z</updated>
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    <dw:music>Highwayman by Murder by Death</dw:music>
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    <content type="html">Title: Highwayman&lt;br /&gt;Words: 1021&lt;br /&gt;Rating: PG&lt;br /&gt;Warning: Death-ish&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Speculative Historical&lt;br /&gt;Summary: Immortal highwayman "dies" for his crimes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inspired by the song "Highwayman" as performed by Murder by Death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was a highwayman&lt;br /&gt;Along the coach roads I did ride&lt;br /&gt;With sword and pistol by my side&lt;br /&gt;Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade&lt;br /&gt;Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade&lt;br /&gt;The bastards hung me in the spring of '25&lt;br /&gt;But I am still alive&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://thecrankydragon.dreamwidth.org/665.html#cutid1"&gt;Highwayman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thecrankydragon&amp;ditemid=665" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2024-10-11:4201832:416</id>
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    <title>The Other Shore</title>
    <published>2025-07-07T18:04:35Z</published>
    <updated>2025-07-07T18:04:35Z</updated>
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    <dw:music>The Other Shore by Murder by Death</dw:music>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Title: The Other Shore&lt;br /&gt;Words: 1,095&lt;br /&gt;Rating: PG&lt;br /&gt;Warning: Suicide&lt;br /&gt;Genre: Science Fiction&lt;br /&gt;Summary: Farmer wakes up to an unhelpful robot and a ship of dead colonists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://thecrankydragon.dreamwidth.org/416.html#cutid1"&gt;The Other Shore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thecrankydragon&amp;ditemid=416" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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