NOTE: One of the cooler things I did with this story is have the ladies rescue the guys at the end, not for any big political reason. Just because it was fun. John settled into […]
Author: R W
Rick Wayne is a cretinous mass who's dissected a cadaver, climbed the Great Wall, jumped from an airplane, designed sampling systems, swam naked in the Mediterranean, and felt the blast of a terrorist's bomb, although not in that order. When he's not vomiting words, he's planning his next adventure.
He can be found at RickWayne.com.
(Art) The Neon Pulp of Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza
Although I can’t find where he’s done a book cover, the illustrations of Madrid artist Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza look very much like covers to the latest neon pulp crime thrillers. With menacing, surrealist themes […]
(Sunday Thought) Gaslighting and Social Media
It’s been my consistent experience that you can’t “social media” your way to commercial success. But don’t take my word for it. For a long time, in the middle 2010s, I thought it was me, […]
Powerful.by Yuxing Zhang
(Fiction) A Bad Idea
The bus pulled onto the shoulder to report the bleeder on the side of the highway. A car had clipped the man’s leg, which bent awkwardly to one side. His hands had frozen into fists […]
(Art) The Dungeon Bestiary of Justin Gerard
US artist Justin Gerard creates magnificently colored illustrations of high fantasy scenes from Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, and his own imagination. Several years ago, he started a Monster of the Month project, which you […]
(Sunday Thought) The Brescia Medallion
Several times, I’ve mention the Thinker of Cernavoda, a small, seven-thousand-year-old terracotta statue that is without a doubt my favorite work of art, and for largely the same reason I also love this piece, the […]
(Fiction) The Red King
Anders Benet had murdered his mother in the womb. He had no memory of this, nor could he say he intended the woman any harm. Indeed, it wasn’t until his fourteenth year that he killed […]
(Art) The Fantasy Game Art of Bayard Wu
Bayard Wu’s colorful style and bright imagery make his work jump off the printed page. It’s no wonder then that the Shenzhen-based artist has created so much high-fantasy art for the likes of Wizards of […]
(Sunday Thought) The Biology of Belonging
World historian William McNeill argued that humans had evolved for synchronous ritual: dancing, chanting, marching in time. The anthropological data seem to support this. For example, researchers recently found that Sufis engaged in the dhikr, […]
