TWIPs are Temporary Works In Progress. Rather than put too much of forthcoming books on the site, we have decided to pop up some material for a limited period only.

Our first TWIP is called “The Trouble at the Silver Sixpence”. It comes from a forthcoming work which we are not even going to name yet. However, some of you familiar with The Adventure of the Crystal Staff will see how it fits into the timeline of that story, even though none of the characters appear in both stories.

So without further introduction, we present our very first TWIP:

The Trouble at the Silver Sixpence

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Well that was really boring, BUT before all this technical chaos broke out, we were about to post an all-new short romantic story. You’ll be getting it very soon. Promise!

<a href=”http://sundaughterpress.com/about/is-intemorphiction-really-a-genre/”><B>Is Intemorphiction really a genre?</b></a>

Maybe you thought you knew all there was to know about intemorphic literature, but the Sun Daughter Press may surprise you with this recent interview!

The Birth of a Gender-Genre: What is Intemorphiction?

This is a deeply-argued and thought-provoking piece whose fundamental precept is the underlying feminine origins of all mythology.

Read it here.

There are lots of texts and some books of intemorphic literature, but so far they are all in English.

When one considers translating them into other languages, an immediate problem arises, and one which communities that want to live an honorary-intemorphic life are going to have to consider.

In English, only people (and sometimes animals) are “sexed” when referring to them. Everything else is an “it”. So when we translate intemorphic culture into English, it is a simple matter. Chelani and melini (blondes and brunettes) are both “she/her” and other things are “it”. When intemorphs refer to mascûli, they call them “it”, not because they mean to be denigrating, but because, obviously, no intemorphic language has a word for “he/him”.

However in most European languages, everything is gendered – pens, houses, days and nights, grass, mountains, the sea – everything.

So how does intemorphic language “translate” into, say Spanish, French or German?

Let us take Spanish.

One could simply use “el/los/lo” as the melinic pronouns. However that would be very unnatural. Imagine calling brunettes “he” in English. It would completely undermine the intemorphic order. “He” has too definite a meaning, as does “el”.

So one can call brunettes “ella/las/la” but then the rest of the language is constantly referring to a non-existent sex.

If Spanish were English one could change the spelling to indicate a difference, for example spelling “el” as “elle” so that while sounding the same, it would also invoke the feminine French “elle” – quite a neat way of incorporating two feminine genders. But of course Spanish – like most non-English languages – is pronounced as it is spelled. “Elle” and “el” in Spanish are pronounced very differently.

One could redraft the language, using, say “ella” and “elli”, “las” and “lis” – which would follow intemorphic conventions but would probably feel to a Spanish speaker like the awkward contortions of “womyn” and “herstory”, only affecting every sentence.

Fortunately it is a question we don’t have to solve just yet. But some day, as intemorphic publishing spreads and grows, it will have to be solved.

So The Fairy Gambit has been a little revised and slightly expanded. Nothing radical. The main change adds some dialog making clearer the way fairies fit (or don’t) into the world-views of intemorphs and schizomorphs respectively. Otherwise, the authoress says, “a few infelicities have been smoothed out”.

The revised version is here.

The Fairy Gambit

A humorous tale of space-strategy.

Many peoples travel the open roads of space, and why should they not? Trade in minerals and commodities unavailable on our own planets enriches us all materially, and meeting vastly different kinds of being enriches us spiritually.

There is, however a rather obscure species known as mascûli (0r one half of it is). They have spent the last few millennia killing their own kind and anything else they can get their hands on. Obviously it is in the interests of everyone to keep these creatures confined to their own planet.

This is the story of an intemorphic space patrol that has a peaceful if rather outlandish approach to the problem.

Read it here:

The Fairy Gambit

It is the story of a group of hoverbike-girls from an all-feminine world who… but heck! Why not watch the trailer right here!

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