Thursday, April 9, 2015

Name That Genre #27

TITLE: YA
GENRE: SECRET

The wood of the door fails to mute Jilana’s wrath. “Fragments, Mazani, why!”

After each yell comes a strained silence.

“That’s months of someone’s work you’ve ruined!”

I would not be brave enough to defy Master Jilana. But Mazani is. After each refusal to speak her mother roars louder. The weavers around me stare at their looms, hands frozen in mid-knot. My mother’s eyes dart between the door and me.

It was Mazani’s idea to lead us into battle. Her game, us versus the novices from the competitor’s workshop. Jilana’s other prentices -- we just follow along, Mazani’s little posse.

“Why!”

Mazani’s victims retaliate, of course: knives mysteriously blunted. Dragon dung on the yarn. If a journeymen sits on a thorn meant for us, we take the blame to hide our own inciting pranks.

But this is different. This was an accident. Mazani would never have tipped a loom.





35 comments:

  1. Medievil fantasy?

    I remember seeing a post in an earlier contest about a girl and her loom. Is this a continuation of that story? Sort of has a fantasy Sleeping Beauty/ Reality TV contest mash-up.

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    1. I have never posted here before, but thanks!

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  2. Fantasy.

    At first I thought historical with the looms and the master but when the dragon dung was mentioned it had to be fantasy.

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  3. Fantasy
    Because of the dragon dung. Up until then, I thought it was historical.

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  4. Fantasy

    But I had no clear idea until 'dragon dung'.

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  5. Historical Fantasy.

    The unusual curse (Fragments!) and slang (prentices) plus the dragon dung.

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  6. Fantasy.

    Looms, dragons and the unusual names.

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  7. Fantasy
    Dragon Dung, (which doesn't sound pleasant BTW)

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  8. Fantasy.
    Didn't know until the mention of the dragon.

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  9. Fantasy.
    Didn't know until the mention of the dragon.

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  10. Thought historical until the mention of the dragon, so fantasy.

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  12. Fantasy

    Battling weavers suggests something magical, and of course there are dragons.

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  13. Fantasy

    I was going historical until a dragon pooped on me.

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  14. Fantasy
    The names and the dragon dung.

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  15. Fantasy. Mention of the dragon led me to this conclusion. Unless, of course, the 'dragon dung' is just a name and not a reference to a real dragon.

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  16. Fantasy

    Dragon dung on your doorstep's a dead giveaway.

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  17. Fantasy
    The names, the expletive Fragments!, the 'prentices' all suggest some imagined time and place. Then there's that drangon poo.

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  18. Fantasy

    Yep, dragon dung did it for me too.

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  19. Fantasy.

    Because of the mention of "Dragon dung."

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  20. Fantasy. It has an air of other-worldness, plus there is dragon dung.

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  21. Historical Fantasy. Could've been straight historical until the mention of the dragon dung.

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  22. Fantasy, also because pf the Dragon dung ...

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  23. yA medieval fantasy, because of the POV young apprentice character and mischiefmaking, looms, and of course the fantasy excrement.

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  24. Fantasy

    missed the dragon dung the first time around, so at first was thinking just historical, although the names are also unfamiliar in a fantasy way.

    random note: This is a lot of information really fast, which could be fine, except that it includes multiple names, so at the moment I'm having a hard time following the situation.

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    1. Thank you for your additional feedback, Hepseba.

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  25. Fantasy with a touch of high-school type drama!

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  26. Fantasy- dragon dung, weavers, unusual names

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  27. Social commentary in a fantasy setting.

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  28. Fantasy

    Because of dragon dung
    Otherwise might have been historical

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  29. Thank you for your evaluations, everyone. This is straight-up fantasy -- not historical fantasy. I'm intrigued by the guess of "social commentary in a fantasy setting." There is a social commentary aspect of the novel, but I had no idea it was showing in the first few paragraphs.

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