When a series of escalating pranks on a remote space station results in someone getting hurt, the acting administrator investigates and hopes the culprit is not a pixie.
Music: “Ground Control” by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)
Video description
Video Description: “The Maximal Pixie” Trailer. Duration, 40 seconds. “Ground Control” by Andrea Baroni. Digital drawing. A humanoid figure covered in short fur with large eyes, long tapering ears, and butterfly-like wings lies in a crawling position atop a control panel. Printed along the top corner of the panel is “M.A.C.S. 47.” A dial and a few switches are visible at the front of the panel. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Space Fairy Tale,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “When pranks on a remote space station result in someone getting hurt, the acting administrator investigates and hopes the culprit is not a pixie.” Lines from the story appear in sequence at bottom: “‘I know what it is. I’ve seen the super-nature documentaries from the root planet.’ ‘Don’t say “pixie,”’ thought Cass. Mr. Frait glanced over to her. ‘It was a pixie.’ Mr. Frait pointed at her. ‘Don’t hurt it, Irene. Tell your people. It doesn’t mean any harm. Just following its nature.” Site URL appears at bottom left throughout and fades at end. The title appears at center. A text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For the tenth year, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
April Base Element:
🐉🧚🏽♂️ FAE-PRIL! 🧚🏽♀️✨
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for April: The Fae (Fairies)
Fusion Element: Science Fiction
While brainstorming different scenarios for stories with fairies, I thought of having a person going on vacation to the fairy realm, not seeing anything interested, and coming back to their regular office job. But unbeknownst to them, a fairy tagged along to see what the human realm was like. In adding the fusion element of science fiction, I made it easy on myself by just changing the location from a modern day office on planet Earth to a remote space station where the days are typical and routine…until a fairy shows up.
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Maximal Pixie,” from a sketch to the final image.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 21 seconds. Digital drawing. A humanoid figure covered in short fur with large eyes, long tapering ears, and butterfly-like wings lies in a crawling position atop a control panel. Printed along the top corner of the panel is “M.A.C.S. 47.” A dial and a few switches are visible at the front of the panel. Text at bottom reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a portion of the starting sketch. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at middle. All the text and the final image fade to show the full starting sketch. The video transitions through several images showing the sketch, inking, laying down of base colors, addition of shadows, highlights, and textures, and finally the addition of a background to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Maximal Pixie” appears at bottom. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears bottom center throughout.
Genre: Fairy Tale, Science Fiction
Tags: Administrator, Cass, Chief, Dae, Hatchling, Pixie, Pranks, Security, Station, Tricks, Wright
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