I had a couple conversations recently about writing fight scenes and how abysmal they usually are to read, even to watch. Action is very tedious, after all. Think of how quickly a car chase gets […]
Tag: indie
(Fiction) The Keep of the Mage-King
The base of the island, worn smooth by the waves and crusted in barnacles, was slightly narrower than the rest. An uneven triangular cave exposed the grotto that was the only ingress to the interior, […]
(Fiction) The Knife That Killed Albert Gallagher Twice
We walked for hours through someone else’s dark and anxious dreams, and he navigated it as only a spiritwalker can, a man trained since birth not only to battle evil spirits but also to retrieve […]
(Fiction) To End All Prisons
Despite that many of them were Freemasons, a secret society steeped in the occult, the Founding Fathers envisioned an unspoiled continent, freed of old encumbrances—not just taxes but the arcane and complex practices that had […]
(Fiction) The Game With No Winners
“I was a very spoiled girl,” I told her. By the time I was 13, I had already noticed how the men looked at me differently. It bothered me at first—that they dared be […]
(Fiction) A Fitting Place For Man-Eaters
It was a fitting place for man-eaters—murderous and silent and stocked with the dead of a hundred generations. It was a fitting place to bring the departed, even those still on two feet. “Damn, this […]
(Fiction) The bunny comes or I scream
I woke around noon to find a strange man standing over me. I shrieked and fell backward to the floor between the bed and the wall, claws up, ready to scratch the fucker’s eyes out. […]
