Third Place
Jun. 18th, 2003 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkGot a bit loud at times. The 'meeting room' we've been using lately is an echo chamber. People speak loud to be heard over the others, which leads to more loudness, which leads to speaking louder. I ran away a couple times in search of quiet.
I ended up paging through a short story collection called Tales Of The Slayer 2. I enjoyed "The New Watcher" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Set in 1864 Atlanta, the slayer, Pauline Francis Bernard, is passing herself off as a man under the name of Frankie Massey in order to serve in the Union army. Her Watcher had enlisted with her, despite being British. She'd recently staked him after he'd been made a vamp by Southern vampires.
A new Watcher, again British, arrives in her town in search of a woman. The major-general suspects he's a spy and calls in one of his aides, Frankie Massey. After sending the Watcher off as a possible spy (doesn't help that the Watcher says "You can't understand the forces you're dealing with here!") he reveals that he's had Frankie followed. He compliments her on the nest she took out, says that his spies report more vampire nests formed of Southern soldiers are in Atlanta and to the South and East, and that he plans to use fire to take out the nests. She confirms that fire will kill vampires, and comes to the conclusion that General Sherman is going to be her new Watcher.
I didn't like "War Between The States", set in 1922 NYC. It had a Southern-born woman admiring a flapper, single-white-femaling the flapper, and then finding out that the flapper is the Slayer.
So, 1 for 2 so far...may need to look at it again later.
I ended up paging through a short story collection called Tales Of The Slayer 2. I enjoyed "The New Watcher" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Set in 1864 Atlanta, the slayer, Pauline Francis Bernard, is passing herself off as a man under the name of Frankie Massey in order to serve in the Union army. Her Watcher had enlisted with her, despite being British. She'd recently staked him after he'd been made a vamp by Southern vampires.
A new Watcher, again British, arrives in her town in search of a woman. The major-general suspects he's a spy and calls in one of his aides, Frankie Massey. After sending the Watcher off as a possible spy (doesn't help that the Watcher says "You can't understand the forces you're dealing with here!") he reveals that he's had Frankie followed. He compliments her on the nest she took out, says that his spies report more vampire nests formed of Southern soldiers are in Atlanta and to the South and East, and that he plans to use fire to take out the nests. She confirms that fire will kill vampires, and comes to the conclusion that General Sherman is going to be her new Watcher.
I didn't like "War Between The States", set in 1922 NYC. It had a Southern-born woman admiring a flapper, single-white-femaling the flapper, and then finding out that the flapper is the Slayer.
So, 1 for 2 so far...may need to look at it again later.
