The Tale of Gramlak Boarskewer And Mister Kettlehead
By Way Of Introduction This was submitted for the Blizzard 2010 writing contest; it did not win, place, or show. Sigh. The version below is very slightly different than the one actually submitted,...
View ArticleAlfie Saves The Day
Something I haven’t done in a while… some new fiction. Assorted author’s notes (random and useless rambling) at the end of the tale. Saying more beforehand strikes me as pointless; if the story needs...
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Captain Future And The Space Emperor!
Captain Future! And The Space Emperor! As you may recall, yesterday… yes, folks, I am actually writing “tomorrow” what I said I would… (EDIT: As you can tell, it didn’t get finished until a few days...
View ArticleLearning The Ropes
Once more, continuing the slow process of restoring the fiction from the previous incarnation of this site… not sure why it wasn’t all brought over during the great migration, but, oh well. Today’s...
View ArticleThe Name Of His Wife
The Name Of His Wife Jacob Brown sat on a rough wooden chair. The light from a single flickering candle illuminated sod walls. He set down a wooden bowl filled with watery gruel, which was his...
View ArticleThe Banality Of The Fantastic
Just a little something I wrote on rpg.net that I thought ought to be here, as well. I’ve found, in my fiction, that I tend to keep returning to the concept of the banality of the fantastic — how...
View ArticleYe Olde Magick Shoppe
Something that just walked into my head… not sure if it’s part of anything larger, or not… One Fine Day At Ye Olde Magick Shoppe Haldebard sighed. The war… well, the nearest war… was over, and that...
View ArticleKickstarter Announcement! Rogue Planet: Adventures On The Star Prison! With...
Terrifying… I Mean, Good News, Everyone! Following a lifetime habit of jumping on the bandwagon after the dead horse has left the open barn, I have decided to try to Kickstart a new novel. As both of...
View ArticleKickstarter Update: Eight Hours!
Eight hours to go! 35-ish dollars to the art stretch goal! 235 dollars to the RPG supplement stretch goal! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/830842814/rogue-planet-adventures-on-the-star-prison .
View ArticleVery Short Tales Of Non-Adventure, Part 1
For a while, I’ve had in the back of my head assorted tales of things not going according to trope, mostly for the fun of it. Here’s the first, hastily scribbled (if a keyboard counts as scribbling)...
View ArticleRogue Planet: Now In Print
So, I’m just gonna leave this right here… (Kickstarter backers waiting on the dead tree edition… they’re all in envelopes, all addressed, going to the Post Office tomorrow or Thursday unless something...
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The As-Required-By-Law Kickstarter Post-Mortem
Kickstarter Post-Mortem (Updated 2-25-2014) As Seemingly Required By Law So, my first Kickstarter is done. I beat the odds in several ways… it was funded. The product was produced, if not 100% on time,...
View ArticleThe First Adventure Of The Fourth Streak Derrick
Introduction Yeah, I’m hyping the crap out of my new book. If you like this story, you’ll probably like the above book. If you don’t like this story, erm, you’ll still probably like the above book,...
View ArticleThat Thing We Do On Weekends
I wrote the first part of this, the prologue bit, something like two years ago… then wrote the bulk of the rest in two fits (plays have acts, symphonies have movements, writers have fits) a few months...
View ArticleThe Devil And Captain Alistair
The Devil And Captain Alistair There was smoke, and fire, and sparks. The main screen’s display had fractured into blocks of random colors; only a handful of secondary and tertiary displays, still...
View ArticleThe Houses By The Side Of The Road
I got the inspiration for this about 2013, wrote it in a day or two in 2022, and finally am releasing it unto the world after an editing pass. ===== The house was set far back from the highway, but...
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