Today, I thought I’d share the other two characters mentioned in my previous post “Detour Ahead”. Last time, I described Darius, the male rogue. Ashimar is a male warrior who lives to pursue mercantilism. He loves to barter and trade, not to make money alone but the experience is what he enjoys. He even sells …
In support of another product, I’m currently cranking out a new short story. The product in question is a roleplaying adventure which needs some worldbuilding and background. You know, the fluff. The adventure itself is a short one, structured on the Five Room Dungeon concept. The idea is that you abstract a “dungeon” of five …
Here’s one of my current newer projects – building a new world based on a foundation of high fantasy combined with concepts from Altered Carbon. This world, Stoneghar, is controlled by a number of golems, constructs made of iron, wood, crystal and other materials. Each of these golems were once mortal rulers who have undergone …
I’ve been a fan of short stories since I was a kid. I have predominantly read science fiction, fantasy and horror, and I think the short story form suits those genres particularly well. I suspect other genres work just fine but I don’t have the same breadth of experience there. Today, I’d like to just …
This is just a rambling post, because reasons. One of my favorite things, in fiction, is the unexpected. I think it stems from my voracious consumption of books, television, and movies over the decades. I started reading young, and I started at the deep end of creative works – science fiction, fantasy and horror. As …
Time for something completely different – a short screenplay called “Caldera”. It’s a departure from the usual genre and is more of a modern day conspiracy thriller, maybe with some supernatural element; that part is vague. I could easily expand it into a larger story or even incorporate it into the Web of the Shepherds …
I’ve now posted another short story called “Masquerade” and it actually belongs in the Web of the Shepherds universe. It’s meant to be a teaser, with most of the story giving the reader a sense of what-the-hell-is-happening. And to be fair, that’s how it ends as well, but that’s just how it is.
I’ve posted another short story called “Doctors Without Galactic Borders” and it amused me sufficiently enough to share it. The premise was determined for me, as it was part of a competition; there were three elements: sci-fi genre, a surgeon, and camping. I had a number of wild possibilities, but the one I settled on …
Another piece of flash fiction “Grigori” has been posted here on the site. This is a small seed based on a simple concept that occurred to me long ago: What if Grigori Rasputin actually survived all of the murderous methods used on him? I wanted to figure out how he would have possibly lived through …
There has been yet another writing challenge, this time a 250 word story involving “spirit”, “clapping” and “unconcious”. After discarding all of the obvious stories that come to mind, I focused on the clapping element, and wanted to do something different with it. There are a multitude of ways to interpret and convey clapping, but …