This is the first of the #SundayLit stories, previously posted on my @skribe Mastodon account, using the prompts: openings, happiness, colour, and dreams. I’ve made a few minor corrections and clarifications, and posted it as a whole for the first time. It was written and posted from 28th September until 20th October 2025. If you like this story, you might also like The Pact, which has a similar feel to […]
In 2015, my kids were heavily into both Portal games and dinosaurs. So, I wrote a short story featuring elements of the portal games, a pair of tyrannosaurus rexes (which my kids named), and a heap of terrible troodon. It also starred my kids. They loved it, and it was read and re-read aloud for more than a year. However, my kids have grown up. The Portal games and dinosaurs […]
This is part two of a summary provided by the Norhaven Institute about the key events to the Battle of the Strand. Please check out part one for information about the lead-up to the battle. It provides a lot of the exposition and the reasons why it occurred with details about those involved.
For the last 30 days, I’ve been engaged in a communal activity called Blog June. Its purpose is to promote bloggers to post. At least every day, if possible, but it’s not a requirement, just a goal. People are generally time poor and so garnering enough energy to blog can be difficult. Plus, coming up with thirty different ideas for a blog post can be a challenge. But this year, […]
For much of its history, the language of the Kza-Lan used an abjad script. It is for this reason that there is some speculation about the exact spelling of most of the words in the language. In this article, we’ll be using the convention employed by the linguists and historians from the Second Armen Kingdom, while also including various alternatives used through history.
A few days ago, I read a post asking readers what elements took them out of the story. The reason might be stylistic or a functional decision the writer had taken. Amongst the more popular reasons for being taken out of the moment were secondary world anachronisms. For example, the characters cry out the name of a present-day primary world deity, or the world has the same days of the […]
The Glyphs is a multiple-choice game where you control the fate (and demise) of a gong farmer, as they explore the sewers beneath the Ancient City. Just choose an option from the poll below, and the most popular option will decide what happens next. I’ll put out one of these every week. New here? Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
This is a continuation of The Scroll of Decular. Wúrnúr being the elder warrior was named chief of the Onghaor, and while he had many duties, including teaching the boys and girls how to war and hunt, for the tribe was too small now to rely on just the boys, and collecting meat for the empty stomachs, he was constantly badgered to take a wife and sire children, for what […]
After reading snail’s post about Flexnib’s post about Bibliotheque Bound’s post, I’ve decided to add this post to the posticle about work spaces. I have a work desk (or at least part of one). It contains a computer (a laptop) as well as several removable hard-drives, and a multi-functional laser printer. It also contains a lot of junk. I have written several novels, including Coils of the Serpent, at this […]
In comparison, it’s not much, but recently my novel Coils of the Serpent crossed the 10,000 views mark on Royal Road. The more popular works receive that many in a day, but it is almost two years to the day since I posted the first chapter there. Add in the few thousand views the novel has received on other sites (plus the three views it got on Wattpad before I […]
