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Published: 2018-03-16 01:01:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 5720; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 12
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In my latest illustrated novel, A Pocket of Time, a brother and sister encounter a magic shop and experience an amazing series of adventures. In this book there are transformations, age regressions and other surprising things. Previously I posted an illustration of the brother and sister after they had been transformed into dolls. In this illustration we have another character from the book who has also been transformed into a doll. To make things a little more fun I decided to add two photos on the wall. The two kids that you see in the framed photos are the author and the illustrator when they were kids. A limited color edition of the book is available for sale.Related content
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Glad you liked it. I enjoyed it so much that it is the image on my cell phone.
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It's an interesting idea.
It puts me in mind of The Magicians of Capriona where two children are magically reduced in size and, with make-up and suchlike disguising their looks, are magically forced to perform as Punch and Judy, including Punch beating Judy "to death" with a club (bruises only, fortunately) and Mr Punch threatened with hanging (which event actually provides some useful information after the boy manages to "play" the situation to avoid his own hanging - something which he shouldn't have been able to do).
It also reminds me of my own story, The Crying Puppet. I'd probably spoil(er) the story if I said much more about it here, but it's on DA and there's no mature filter since it's suitable for all ages.
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Ah yes, I am familiar with that book. I actually own a first edition signed by the author. I'm a big fan of Diana Wynne Jones and own most of her books.
My latest story has the same sort of feel to it as Magicians. The brother and sister find a real magic shop and they don't realize that the merchandise in the store changes for every customer and everything becomes what the customer needs whether they know of the need or not. The first thing that they buy is a pack of red hot gum that they buy in order to play a practical joke on their cousin Peter. But once they give it to him it causes Peter to breathe flames every time he speaks. Eventually he causes so many fires that he resurrects an ancient Aztec fire god. Now the brother and sister have to figure out how to defeat this fiery being who wants to set the world on fire and turn all the inhabitants into his fiery demons.
Of course that it just one of the objects that doesn't work as they expected and there are many more fun yet dangerous things that they encounter. Another is Jojo the snow elf who wants to make the world into a winter wonderland for children and he intends to do away with all adults. When the brother and sister try to combat the snow elf the brother is turned into a doll.
Like I said, lots of transformations and other things happening in this story but that's what happens when you enter a magic shop where everything that they sell is magical.
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Well, if you're interested in what I did with the "toy/puppet" theme, you may want to read the story.
The Crying PuppetThe Crying Puppet
By Jason Masters © 2015
This is a work of fiction. This story is not based on any real events.
The wizard stared disapprovingly at the woodcutter who clutched his infant son protectively in his lap while seated on the other side of the ornately carved oak desk. It had been a long journey for a man with so small a baby, the wizard knew. He hated to disappoint such a determined customer.
The wizard's disapproving look was tempered somewhat by the sight of the small bag of gold coins which the woodcutter was offering in exchange for a particularly dangerous and difficult-to-cast spell. The bag of coins must have represented the man's life's savings. All the same, the wizard wasn't a total mercenary and was trying to impress certain warnings upon his potential client's mind, more than half hoping to dissuade him in spite of the potential profit.
"A spell of this nature is not only extremely difficult to successfully cast, b
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I got a chance to read your story. Sorry it took me so long. I did enjoy the story. There were a few typos in it but those are easily fixed. The only thing that I have a question about is why the puppet changed into a boy without any clothes. Shouldn't the boy have been wearing the same clothes that the puppet was wearing? Just wondering. But it was very nicely told and I look forward to reading more.
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I'd appreciate you pointing out the typos. I tend to be a perfectionist so I'd like to correct any errors.
As for the clothing bit, I never mentioned that the puppet was wearing clothes and even if it was, it's magic and magic doesn't have to be entirely logical (at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)
I guess if I wanted to offer an explanation I'd say that the clothes didn't change size and so got torn to bits.
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Well the easy answer is that he following words are misspelled in the story. Minimise (s/b minimize), Foetal (s/b fetal), Artefact (s/b artifact). The fourth word is one that could be considered a mistake depending on where the writer is from. Enquire is not normally used in the U.S. Instead Inquire is used instead. But in the U.K. it is acceptable to us enquire.
The reason that I bring up the point about the clothes is that I like to have illustrations accompany my story and a clothed boy would work better in an illustration. Especially one that is dressed in archaic clothing while everyone else is wearing contemporary clothes.
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None of those are misspellings because they're all regional differences. I used British English spellings, partly because that's the variety of English I've always used but mostly because the story is "old world" style and so it makes sense to use British spellings and expressions.
I never really thought about the puppet's clothing while writing the story. I did think that perhaps some of the puppet's previous owners would have dressed it in clothing, but then I thought that they would have removed the clothing to keep it from being spoiled by the "crying" part, so the puppet was naked when found the last time and nobody bothered to put any clothes on it.
If you wanted to do an illustration, you could always do one of the boy "before the incident" but you need to remember that he's the child of a peasant and so won't be wearing very fancy clothing.
Or you could imagine that after his "recovery" he tries on some old-fashioned clothing, perhaps as part of a festival.
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