Please note: All characters, locations and events are copyright George RR Martin and the events that take place during this tale can and will deviate from series canon. The Story So Far: It is Year 296 since Aegon’s Landing. Two minor Houses have come into contention: House Luxon, sworn to the Starks of Winterfell, and… Continue reading Honor & Blood, I: Victor
Category: Fiction
Flash Fiction: The Whimper
For Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: An Uncharted Apocalypse: He fumbled with the little packet of cheese and crackers in the empty store. The whole place smelled like rotten meat. The few items that hadn’t been cleared out in the final surge of panic had gone bad months ago. Now the only food worth taking… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Whimper
Guest Post: Deer Santa
As I head back down from Canada, please enjoy this thematically appropriate short story from Joe McGee. He’s been a busy guy, working on his paranormal Western novel Witchslinger, dabbling in children’s picture books and pursuing his Master’s of Arts in Writing at Rowan University. You can find his web page at here, his blog… Continue reading Guest Post: Deer Santa
Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
Okay, I’m going to be honest. This isn’t likely to be my best story ever. I haven’t been editing as thoroughly as I could have over the weekend, which makes this essentially a first draft. And as Hemingway put it, “The first draft of anything is shit.” So it’ll probably be better when it gets… Continue reading Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
Free Fiction: The Jovian Gambit
Continuing experiments in cross-pollination between old myths and newer storytelling genres. They didn’t have spaceships and ray guns in ancient Greece, after all. As always, you can download the PDF or read the text after the spoiler tags. However you enjoy your fiction, this is how to do it. [spoiler] Tranquility Base was a misleading… Continue reading Free Fiction: The Jovian Gambit
The Song So Far
Sean Bean as Ned Stark. Do Want. I totally forgot to write up a formal review of A Game of Thrones when I finished it. Olympic-league slacking on my part. I’m now two books into George R.R. Martin’s excellent doorstopper series A Song of Ice and Fire. I’m frothing at the mouth for the third.… Continue reading The Song So Far
Free Fiction: Citizen in the Wilds, Chapter 1
No hyperbole or anything here – just the first chapter of a manuscript, for your reading pleasure, free of charge. Download the PDF here. [spoiler] CHAPTER ONE Field Trip Asherian rifled through his satchel for what seemed like the hundredth time. The tonics and salves stuffed therein were still in order. They were his own… Continue reading Free Fiction: Citizen in the Wilds, Chapter 1
Free Fiction: The Drifter's Hand
As promised, today sees the second entry in my new Free Fiction section. I was admittedly a little surprised when I saw how well Greek myth and tragedy translated into non-Greek settings like science fiction. I wanted to try and experiment with other mixes, taking classic stories and putting them in different genres. Norse myth… Continue reading Free Fiction: The Drifter's Hand
The Free Fiction Section
I think I’ve needed to do this for a while. I fancy myself a writer of speculative fiction. Sure, I’ll write non-fiction articles, read & edit the work of others, even toil in fields completely unrelated to writing. But my first and foremost desire is to use my grasp of language and imagination to provide… Continue reading The Free Fiction Section
Fiction: The Haunting of Pridewater
Blizzard quietly announced the winners of their 2010 Fiction Contest mid-October. I wasn’t among them. So now, I can give you fine folks my entry, The Haunting of Pridewater. It wasn’t good enough for Blizzard, but maybe someone who passes this way will enjoy it. You must awaken. Time is running out. One of the… Continue reading Fiction: The Haunting of Pridewater
