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You might enjoy looking into things like The Secret Language of Flowers, which tells you about the Victorian/traditional meanings behind certain flowers. You may also want to look into traditional uses of herbs, for cookery as well as medicinal uses.

If you haven't read it, you might enjoy The Accidental Philosopher by Eric Flint.

It is what will come to pass, If you should fail. The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the Cookie, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them all.

The stairs creak and groan underneath my weight. Then I feel a hand wrap itself around my ankle as it pulls me into the staircase.

The biggest thing I think you need is to establish whatever baseline normal is for your characters, before you start deviating into whatever is creepy/scary. Depending on how many words you have to work with of course. I just finished a 500 word horror story this week. (It was for a flash...

What do your characters do in their free time/holidays? Is there art or music or sculpture? Is there a special set of social cues based on non-hand body language/gestures (for example I talk with my hands a lot to emphasize points I'm making. Is there a set of head gestures that are equivalent...

The light it burns us!

I'm probably more influenced by a sense of aesthetics/vibes than any one author. I like pulpy SFF. Conan the Barbarian, Flash Gordon (I suppose he's technically SF, but he comes across as fantastical and Ming the Merciless is sheer fantasy villain I don't care if he has a ray gun!), etc. I like...

Hey AE Lowan. I'm doing fine, resettled across country a few years back. I love the Froud book. Haven't seen a copy in a long time but I remember it well. Thanks for the other recommendations as well I'll look into those at my library!

I like Rusalka too!

Herne the hunter would be interesting to bring in as kind of a one man justice system. Hmm. Needs thinking upon.

I'm using orcs as police constables in my murder mystery. Mostly because they're strong & strength may be needed in their line of work. I also like that they're neither good nor bad, they just exist in my world like any other creature.

I've never even heard of these! Off to go look them up now...

Huh. This really doesn't tend to come up in my writing because I tend to write about the lower classes with no real admixture with those above them societally speaking. I mean upper class folk do exist in my worlds, and I may mention them in passing, but they tend to be mentioned more by title...

Ooh I forgot all about banshees! I have a need for screaming as bodies are found, maybe I can have a banshee for a maid...*scribbles notes*