Rainbow Fiction

Name: Paradise
Story: Tanhua the Vampire
Colors: Iridium #4 (there's no bad publicity), Newsprint #24 (How concise that you can cry from awful wounds, desertion, happiness, memories, humiliation, disappointment, or grandeur.)
Supplies and Styles: chalk (Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space), stain (There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston) stickers (sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes); chiaroscuro, sculpture
Word Count: 940
Rating: teen
Warnings: Violence, murder.
Summary: Tanhua finds a home, for a while.
Note: Completed Iridium! 🙌

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Name: A foreign ship sails into the bay
Story: Tanhua the Vampire
Colors: Iridium #7 (innovation), Newsprint #18 (It's an extraordinary feeling when parts of your body are touched for the first time. I'm thinking of the sensations from sex and surgery.)
Supplies and Styles: acrylics (prompt 2355), palette knife (see acrylics), pastels (ladiesbingo prompt "Funerals and Wakes"); chiaroscuro, sculpture
Word Count: 1,240
Rating: teen
Warnings: Violence, death, reference to forced prostitution, slavery, poverty.
Summary: Journal entry: The last dawn.
Note: New series! This is me playing Thousand Year Old Vampire, the solo RPG. I'll post these tidbits as expansions of the quick-game entries I've made. I don't think this counts as a gesso, since I use nobody else's canon, only prompts from the game.

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