Hurrah! It is now/has just been the 15th globally, which means the next Inklet is out in the world!
I can’t believe we’re up to #88 already. I remember noting at the start of the year that this one would be out in mid-August, because the main character is named after a friend, and August felt like such a long way away… And now it’s half over o.O
I swear, if the apparent rate of time passing continues to accelerate like this, by the time I’m 70 a year is going to feel like it’s only a month long. Oy.
ANYWAY, today we have a lovely (ha) short story about a court assassin doing his Thing to protect his Queen. This story is actually a test-run of a key incident that happens near the start of a future-novel currently called I, Too, Have Teeth – it’s a far-future dystopian fantasy steampunk (!!) and there’s a whole Pinterest board of pretty story-related inspo if you happen to feel like checking that out, bwa ha.
(No, I haven’t started the novel yet, this story is all that currently exists of it, though I do have half a draft of a novel set a hundred years earlier in the same world, the opening to another short story in the same world, and Only A Single Rivet, a short story that appears alongside Some Impropriety Expected in my collection It All Changes Now, where I see I’ve named the series world Weapons Never Weep, which is appropriate (see Pinterest) but I’ve literally no memory of doing that o.O )
Nobody suspects good-natured Skribs’s real job as assassin for the queen.
Everyone else’s eyes? Diverted by the gruesome horrors the Northern ambassador brings for show.
But Skribs’s attention? Fixed where it really matters: protecting his queen’s back.
No one’s getting past this secret hitman today.
A cheeky, confident story with ultra-competent characters on display, don’t miss Some Impropriety Expected!
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