Short Stories The Favored Son: Alternate- Part Sixteen 4 Mar 202127 Dec 2021 "They're going to cut us off from behind!" Tharol announced. "But if we move now I think we can get through the tower before they do it." It was the…
Short Stories Raise the Black Sun: Part Eleven 16 Jul 202013 Dec 2021 I never did see the sun with my actual eyes. How could I? There was no light in that place at all, the sun emanated darkness. And yet, I was…
Lessons I See What You Did There 6 Jul 202013 Dec 2021 Finish the Pattern) West Side Story was never going to end happily. We listen to Tony and Maria plotting to get away from all the rottenness in their world, and…
Lessons The 11th Hour Arrival 22 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 Becoming Important) It was an interesting thing getting to know my wife. Of course I didn't know that she was going to be my wife when I first met her.…
Lessons A Fitting End 4 May 20201 Dec 2021 Back to Basics) Some elements of storytelling are so ubiquitous that they are taken for granted...at least until you start writing a story of your own and then have to…
Lessons The Quiet After the Storm 17 Feb 202027 Nov 2021 Releasing Tension) Last Thursday we saw the apex of action in The Soldier's Last Sleep. Since the very beginning of the story I have been teasing a close-quarters battle between…
Lessons Not Sure How to Feel About This 21 Oct 201920 Nov 2021 Incomplete Victories) Last week I concluded a short piece with a bittersweet moment. In it the hero sacrificed his life, but not even to defeat the villain. In fact, the…
Lessons The Chase 27 May 201917 Nov 2021 I remember the first story I read that didn't have a proper ending. It was one of the many tales in One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). In this…
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