fiction

  • Skull Dansuer: Chapter 3

    Skull Dansuer: Chapter 3

    “That witch was sure as hell tripped out on something. Are you sure you want to go along with a twenty-plus-year-old prophecy that was probably just the delusional ravings of a mushroom-hopped, senile, old lady?” I settled back into our nest of crates in the dungeon-like room. “Then again. Don’t want to ruin a good…

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 10

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 10

    I woke where I had been left. The shore trees, backlit, cast long afternoon shadows. The water had receded to my feet, leaving me covered in mud and leaves.

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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 7

    Sylwyn led me out of the massive reference library and down a different corridor than the one I had used to access the reference library.  “I think as long as you’re with me, most people will leave you alone.  We still need to conduct a couple more tests to really see just how much you…

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Chapter 4

    “Requies?” I called as I walked into the main office. Browns and creams overwhelmed my vision. The heavy smell of lemon oil and dust was a strange nostalgia that nagged at the back of my head. Papers were neatly ordered in piles on every flat surface available. A thud and something hitting the floor in…

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  • Review: Between Jobs by WR Gingell

    Meaowolf Sante Fe if it was with Fae and Vampires.

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  • Review: By Marsh and By Moor by Annick Trent

    A thorough historical world build that many authors would benefit from analyzing for style.

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  • To Be Read Pile

    To Be Read Pile

    I really do need to keep track of that TBR pile in my Kobo. So many good reads I forget are there.

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  • Review: A Suitable Captive by R. Cooper

    Spicy gay Robin Hood. That could sum it up, but the Suitable series at large benefits from this piece.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 9

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 9

    Jarl wasn’t joking about the don’t drown bit. At the front steps of the boarding house, a floor down, I encountered a world turned on its head. The water level lapped three steps up. Murk and gunk drifted in the high water.

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  • Life of a Librarian: Ch 6

    Life of a Librarian: Ch 6

    I found myself in a small four-foot by four-foot by six-foot box of a room when I finally woke up.  I guess they figured that by confining me to a small enough area that I wouldn’t be stupid enough to invoke anything that would take up too much space.

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