Facebook Shorts written for the Times

by A.A. Pessimal

Collected short pieces originally written for a Facebook group ("The Ankh-Morpork Times - News of the Disc") To be added to as I retrieve them. A series (eventually) of very short chapters.

42. Goldeneye

Goldeneye

Another idea taken from that Facebook page, The Ankh-Morpork Times, News of the Disc. (22,700 members at the last count - circulation is on the up)

The initial idea was a picture from an archaeology site in one of the former USSR states (forget which one) (1) that uncovered the skeleton of "a six-foot tall Priestess of an unknown religion". She was sporting the world-s earliest know prosthetic eye, believed to be four or five thousand years old and coated in pure gold.

Some helpful soul added a posting reading

Do. Not. Remove. The. Golden. Eye. From. The. Un-naturally. Large. Holy. Woman's. Skeleton.

Please.

This is Fic material. I responded with

This is a job for Conina Cohensdaughter. Or perhaps for Stealth Archaeologist, Miss Alice Band. A professional challenge either way.

This is a fic to be written. (After all, two paragraphs here on TAMT-NOTD, faithfully transferred to this collection of shorts, inspired the one where the Arthurian mythos was transferred to Lancre in four or five chapters. And a couple of musings about urban elephants ended up expanded to The Price of flight.

So... view this as another launch-pad. I see the tale as involving Conina, Alice, and Igorina. As well as a big lurching skeletal warrior priestess. Who may or may not be called Zena.

The obligatory footnote:

(1) Actually at Zabol in Iran.