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Lessons

You’ll Understand in Time

7 Mar 202214 Mar 2022
What Am I Even Watching?) The opening to the 2010 film Inception is quite confusing. We begin with Dom Cobb waking up on a beach and seeing two children in…
Lessons

The Core Question

10 Jan 202226 Jan 2022
Being Drawn Forward) In the most recent chapter of The Long Walk to Alquoran I finally started to unveil the reason why Tammath had been journeying to the Hallowed Throne…
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The Salt Worms: Part Three

15 Sep 202130 Dec 2021
"Black Cypher you are now at the appropriate depth," Major Hawlings had said into the microphone. There was a moment of silence, but no reply, so Hawlings repeated himself. "Black…
Lessons

Stories Within Stories

13 Sep 202110 Nov 2021
A Tale of Two Tales) I have previously mentioned the idea of a story being bookended by another. This would be like the Grandfather reading a story to his sick…
Short Stories

The Salt Worms: Part Two

8 Sep 202130 Dec 2021
Nathan's head swiveled left and right as Doctor Hogue led him through the city. The houses were small shacks, made of the same concrete and zinc sheets that had been…
Short Stories

The Salt Worms: Part One

1 Sep 202130 Dec 2021
New Denver was the largest city Nathan had seen in a long time. It wasn't just another occasionally-inhabited outpost, it was an actual, persistent community of seven hundred souls! New…
Short Stories

The Favored Son: Part Three

17 Sep 202020 Dec 2021
The Second Recitation of Master Eidoron Thus from that Void sprang Life and Invasion. Or using the terms of the Ancient Prophet: Creation and Destruction. And in them began the…
Lessons

You Never Really Knew Me

3 Aug 202014 Dec 2021
Characters Exposed) Stories have the unique ability to show us things about their characters that we could never know about another person in real life. At their most intimate, they…
Short Stories

Raise the Black Sun: Part Five

4 Jun 202014 Dec 2021
As strange as it had been to discover the end of the world, I do believe the greater surprise was that we had met our first citizen of Graymore Coventry,…

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