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Fragment 106

10 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Pyna had allowed Umin another bell of dreamless sleep. Following which they began a trek along the nameless, onyx-obsidian strand.  The Great Lower Sea, a torpid black tongue, perennially licking the lifeless shore upon their right hand. Pyna appeare...

Fragment 105

4 May 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

He awoke convulsively, with the cresting roar of reverberating surf filling his ears. The weight of the Great Lower Sea’s torpid, black waters crushing his breast from within.  Umin rolled over once again, and vomited a sickly, ropy stream of coal-da...

Fragment 104

30 Apr 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Umin struck the soupy surf feet first, and was swiftly swallowed up. Imbibed by the Great Lower Sea’s torpid, black salinity. He was able to draw a single, sufficient breath before plunging through its thickly striated darkness.  The sea’s bituminous...

Fragment 103

22 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Pyna twisted and kicked. Tore and pulled. As the tenebrous mass of clotted, lurid obscenities bore her deeper into the lightless reaches of the Great Lower Sea’s gloomy, and brinish womb. Her wheaty locks blooming beneath the murky waters, like that...

Fragment 74 - Interlude

17 Apr 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… In the Above, Autumn makes forth.  The goddess An’ii of the Sere Leaf strides again across verdant wolds, wringing the sap from Summer’s failing heart. The disciple, her patron now lost to the abundant and faceless throngs...

Fragment 102

14 Apr 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna followed Umin’s disconcerted gaze to a space above the brewing, molten fire-mounts and their restless, sulphurous smokes.  There, billowing against the Great Lower Sea’s false horizon, loomed the booming apparition of...

"Well-Behaved Monsters" - a couple crucial scenes & a countdown deal reminder!

3 Apr 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about my forthcoming book, Well-Behaved Monsters, so this seems like a good time to do so. To clue in newsletter newcomers, but also to remind you existing loyal readers that it’s set for official re...

Compound Fractures: Another book published

19 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Greetings, moon bats and other creatures of the night! This is just a quick post to let you know that I've published yet another book (a third one at that) on LeanPub. (See the URL for all my LeanPub books in the resources section.) Rather than me ba...

The Figure Skater (Fiction)

6 Mar 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

Her heart burst full of joy, enveloping her delicate body in a beautiful, warm light as she looked up into the stars, forgetting the room, the contest, and the spectators cheering for her magical performance. The triple-toe loop was her unique mark....

Character breakdown: Valkira, high warmaiden

5 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows

Valkira is the manifestation of Talzael's martial prowess, valor, and adherence to duty.  Tallest of the sisters, she has two large asymmetrical black eye lenses on her smooth round metal head giving her an intimidating and artificial appearance, whi...