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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...

Fragment 101

1 Mar 2025 11 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

It was well, four bells before dawn. Pyna had descended from the Spire of Clioh, without further impediment or entanglement. Now shrouded in voluminous garments of concealing coal-dark, an inky wimple binding her wheaty mane, and a veil masking all,...

Fragment 100

21 Feb 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna leaned out from a lofty and perilous perch.  Balancing against a toe-length narrow crevice. A mere mossy crack, that snaked and switched across the ashlar of rough and creamy architecture. High upon one of the totterin...

"Well-Behaved Monsters" - a glimpse at the original draft

13 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  Howdy there, dear readers. I stumbled upon this in an old box a few days ago and thought it too coincidental not to share, considering that it’s an early draft snippet of what became Well-Behaved Monsters. With some handwritten notes up...

Fragment 99

13 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Lord Emberbole was not, by nature, an excessively loquacious spirit.  Broad and sturdy as a weather-bated salt-cask, with a greying, tangled beard and knitted top-knot as baroque as the limber lines of his undergalley. His...

"Well-Behaved Monsters" - a peek inside the paperback!

6 Feb 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  Well, at long last we have a paperback prototype of Well-Behaved Monsters to hold in our hands…and I think it looks really good! As someone who has single-handedly bootstrapped this stuff through the years, the results are a mixed bag to sa...

Fragment 98

6 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna gazed for a long while upon the silent space left in Elshad’s wake. The encircling world receded and ceased to be, as she sank into recollections of her mortal family. Above all, was that most acute reminiscence of her...

A joint dystopia. The false light of the future

3 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z54Jtomhb1cEGTfK I travel through time, and this publication allows me to look into the future, when the whole world seems to pacify Russia. The Western leader developed an unfair peace plan, wh...