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A fearful and captive servant, who tends a menagerie of unique and captive creatures, is dazzled by the arrival of a most magnificent creature known as a hippocampus.

Genre: Fantasy

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Excerpt:
At the center of my memory is the image of a horse, a horse the color of orange cream, rearing up, and glancing at me, with an oceanic glint in her eye. She has wings. She has fins. She is fast. I remember. She was fast. Slicing through the water like a ray of sunlight.

So I don\\u2019t know how it could have happened. But I have to do something.

I must free the hippocampus.

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What\\u2019s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story?
Write a story based on the image you draw of a\\u2026sea horse.
No source noted. This prompt was marked \\u201cidea,\\u201d so I think it may have been my idea.

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Faster Fictioneer
I held my first free writing workshop over Zoom to teach my method of writing short stories (an abbreviated version) on 11/8/2023. The workshop is based on my course, called \\u201cFaster Fictioneer: A Doable Method to Write a Short Story from Start to Finish in Five Weeks.\\u201d

You can watch a replay of the workshop here: FASTER FICTIONEER

(You can also buy the course there.)

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CREDITS
Story: \\u201cThe Hippocampus and the Menagerie\\u201d Copyright \\xa9 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:\\xa0 Nila L. Patel

Music:
\\u201cTrip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background\\u201d by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

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Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy Studio)*
\\u201cThe ocean takes it all\\u201d
\\u201cCompass\\u201d
\\u201cExperiment 7\\u201d
\\u201cIn the shadows\\u201d
\\u201cWinter guild\\u201d
\\u201cFallen leaves\\u201d
\\u201cRage\\u201d
\\u201cThe plan\\u201d
\\u201cInto wild lands\\u201d
\\u201cNorthern dusk\\u201d
\\u201cAncien stones\\u201d
\\u201cDark secret\\u201d
\\u201cWide place\\u201d

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*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

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Music by Nicholas Jeudy licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

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Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net
Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Within a glass globe, whose edges are partly visible in frame, there floats a creature in left profile with the front half of a rearing horse and the bottom half of a sea dragon. A finlike wing extends from the creature\\u2019s back. Branching frills and ruffles of fins extend from the bottom half. The body is striped.\\xa0 The ruffled fins bear patches and spots of color. Glowing bubbles rise up around the creature. The globe rests on a base that\\u2019s decorated with tube-shaped coral and coiled snail shells.