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Book One: A Faint Glimmer of Metal
by Stuart Bedlam
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** Cransfeldt: Considered by almost all religious groups an abomination of spirit and an utter destruction of the divine, this holiday found its origins in the very womb which rejected it. After years of dealing with a complicated system of matching Holy days to employees of the correct religious persuasion, the system devolved into one in which every employee, regardless of actual affiliation, was simply not coming to work for every religious holiday. With five major religions, this had become a huge problem. Ficklet Danjo's were suddenly celebrating the birth of Weejet, the all-knowing Lord of Zinc Major Tuttlets. Ponnicker's were bathing in the glory of Dodgery-fobnobs' ascension triton. While it had been the first time in a millennium that these groups were as accepting of each other's ideals, it was to the point where everyone on the planet was taking more than fifty paid holidays per year. Deadlines were missed, orders were not filled on time. Pressured by Business executives, the government acquiesced to combine all of these into a single, general day for observance. The resulting, Cransfeldt, named for Dooey Cransfeldt III who had pushed the bill forward, is the most hated of all days save for those with but the most passive aggressive personalities.