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FECKLESS MEN

14 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Wopney

                Men of feckless irresponsibility who scorned those with a home, preferring the flat horizons of seas than the cramped walls and cubicles of sedentary living. They neatly sidestepped whole generations that had been bound in chains, poi...

I Am Not My Mother… But I’m Bleeding Where She Did

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Shugawrites

I didn’t write this just for women.   I wrote it for anyone who thought they’d break the cycle   only to realize they were standing in it, quiet and bleeding.   Sometimes, we don’t become our parents.   We become the wounds they never got the chance...

Laced in Grief

26 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites

I was blowing balloons when the call came.   We were preparing for our daughter’s second birthday.   Her dress was laid out.   Cupcakes were in the oven.   The house was filled with sugar, soft music, and peace.   Then my phone rang.   “Madam, sorry…...

Prometheus merely stole fire, it took mortals to unleash it

7 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney

  LONDON 1780: THE BURNING OF NEWGATE PRISON                                                               “Strike, and let the fire spread, For in the ashes lies the seed.” The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliam...

BURN IT DOWN - Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Mortals unleash it

20 Jan 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Mortals unleash it LONDON 1780 The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliament. Criminals they held responsible for passing the Act. Yet, the anti-catholic sentiment soon morphs i...

No such thing as going home

3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney

 Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...

Sailing to Seville

1 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Who are the real Pirates? “and so we overtook the sloop commanded by Captain Beer. We raided and stripped it to the bone. Most of their crew had been slaughtered by the time we managed to board but captain Bellamy wanted to keep the merchant vessel....

Infiltration Merchants

9 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments crywork

The danger and allure of treasure have given rise to a thriving market in Cryptonoria. Large corporations and small local businesses exploit the fascination with the mansion by offering tools and training to aspiring thieves.Among the market leaders...

Impenetrable Fortress

6 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments crywork

Perched atop Cryptonoria, the Collector's Mansion is a masterpiece of architecture and technology. Classic in appearance, with its tall towers and immaculate white walls, it actually conceals some of the world's most advanced defenses. This is no mer...

Shitcoins

27 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments crywork

Meanwhile, in the factories where Alys had grown up, the situation was getting worse. Companies continued to exploit workers, paying them in shitcoins whose value plummeted as soon as they tried to leave their posts. These factories, controlled by tr...