SciFi & Fantasy Fiction and Stories by Natalie Adams

No, I still cannot reach your "Writings" from my end. Maybe our accounts are incompatable. It is like a telephone line that is listed but not connected. Maybe that is why no one else is reading your stories. Check with the Elfwood administrators. You are such a good author. You sould be inundated with admirers wanting to read your stories!

This reminds me of something happened to me in 1982. My family went to our cottage, up north, but I stayed home because I was working. My father was a forensic scientist, for the Solicitor General. He was on vacation, but still "on call" for emergencies. One night, the police telephoned me. They needed my father, but no one was at the cottage, and they wanted to know where he could be reached. (This was two decades before cell-phones). Eventually it was discovered that he was at the cottage, but the police had never visited the place. They merely phoned - the line was not connected, and they assumed no one was there.

Natalie Adams replies: "oh right. maybe. never mind.
cool story bout your dad. wierd huh?"

Do you have the TV show "CSI" in England? That’s what they are called nowadays, at least in TV-land. In real-life-land my father never carried a gun, engaged in shootouts, etc.

Natalie Adams replies: "yes we do - i don’t watch it though, not my kind of thing."

One TV show I find quite good is "Murdoch Mysteries". The setting is late 19th Century Toronto. Murdoch is a homicide detective, who invents or makes use of all the new technology. About half of the episodes have a "steampunk" theme.

When I mentioned telephones, I was reminded of how most people take cellphones and wireless technology for granted. A cousin of mine and her husband lived on a farm just a few miles out of town. Back in 1986, to get an internet connection, they had to get a special land-line attached to the telephone wires, and all sorts of brand-new and expensive state-of-the-art equipment. The only reason they could afford such a luxury was because her husband was employed by a computer company, and was involved in the development and research of the equipment and software to make it possible!

Natalie Adams replies: "oh right. lucky them, huh?!"

According to Medieval mythology, only maidens can ride unicorns. Men of my character have to resort to manticores.

Speaking of imaginary creatures, I exchanged emails with Thyri Telari, just after you did. It seems I was the only person to notice she introduced herself with a pun! She said she was a "troll freak" (as opposed to control freak)!

Natalie Adams replies: "oh right - but then since when has kissing a guy demoted a girl from maidenhood?!
Oh right - she is an incredible artist! I see, haha, i never noticed that!"

I noticed her pun because I make so many myself.

I went camping last weekend: I spent the night in the forest, beyond the campground. My fellow campers thought I was missing - they spoke about me in the "past tents"!

Natalie Adams replies: "dry, really dry. "

I have spent three evenings helping a friend move her shop. Her family and me have been lifting heavy furniture and welded-steel shelving up flights of stairs. Three years ago I had helped to bring in the same furniture, I can tell you it is easier to take them down stairs than up.

My friend’s shop was located at 664 Queen Street West, and folk said we were "next door to the Number of the Beast"!

The place next door, 666, had been an excellent restaurant, serving mostly roasted chicken. People nicknamed the place "Satan’s Chicken"!

Natalie Adams replies: "did you know that the whole deal with 666 being the devil’s number is a load of rubbish. i don’t know where i heard it, but it has no connections with anything to do with it, apparently.Strange, to have something so fixed in our minds, but really it is all a game of chinese whispers!"

People need something to believe in, even if it is rubbish. It is better that such persons express themselves with harmless nonsense, rather than getting caught up in something vile.

Natalie Adams replies: "i couldn’t agree more. it’s like when parents scold their kids for believing in faeries and ghosts, as i do now - they say it is all rubbish, and to ’grow up’. But as far as i am concerned, there is nothing more important than holding on to that little bit of fantasy, it’s like a balm for the soul to be able to retreat into that world when things get a bit heated."

It is a good thing that fairies have no souls, or we would be haunted by the ghosts of my catgirl’s victims. She has caught so many of them that I have had to get red pillow covers and bedsheets. (She likes "playing with" them on the bed).

Natalie Adams replies: "but that is where you are wrong. they most definately DO have souls, we just aren’t roubled by their spirits i suppose because they go to a different place than we do - perhaps they can’t come back like we can?
According to MT, australian faeries have silver blood. I wonder if faeries have red, or blue blood? according to your catgirl, red. maybe canadian faeries have red blood."

It makes washing the bedsheets easier, as bloodstains do not show. It is worse when she hides her "trophies". A few weeks ago we were moving a chest-of-drawers out of a storage locker, when I noticed the bad smell. I will not go into detail about what I found, in case you are eating, but let’s just say I preferred to throw out the chest, and all the clothes within, rather than try to clean it.

It is hard to believe my catgirl appears so cute, with such an innocent look on her face, as if she did not know who did it. (I just remembered, she had said that she wanted a new chest-of-drawers).

Natalie Adams replies: "
i suppose it’s one way of getting what you want."

hola

Natalie Adams replies: "hey! did you like my attempts at literature? or didn’t you read them?....."