Sorry that it's been months since I've contributed to LiveJournal, but in December of last year I moved from the wastelands of Anaheim, California to the pastoral suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. I've been occupied with obtaining new health care here in Michigan (I'm on disability), dealing with financial difficulties, and settling into my new home. ( Read more... )

"Most people consider Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl to be a great read... a marvelous book for children. For the Mine Goblins, it's a damn instruction manual!"

"I heard the Clockwork Empress is buying land for a factory out near Victorville."

"Holy crap! That crazy bitch is actually going to build a chocolate factory?"

"Why not? ( Read more... )

The Clockwork Empress struck together two enchanted bracelets of gleaming orichalcum. There was a blinding flash of silver-white light that dazzled everyone assembled, and suddenly the Clockwork Empress stood sheathed head to toe in mirror-polished plate armor of shining orichalcum--the near-indestructible red-gold metal of the alchemists--engraved ( Read more... )

Ask a Dwarf to build the Perfect Mousetrap and you will get exactly what you requested. True, it will look like the mutant offspring between a petroleum cracking plant and a steam calliope and cover an entire city block, but when activated it will attract, capture, and exterminate every mouse within a mile radius ( Read more... )

Not a part of the Wasteland Saga, but taking place in the same universe years later, in the modern era. This is a fragment from another series entitled Fixing a Hole which is best described as a contemporary dystopian fantasy satire, in which magic returns to Earth--as well as all the creatures of myth and legend. Less than one percent of humanity ( Read more... )

Feast of Fools, continued ( Read more... )

Feast of Fools will be the second novel in the Wasteland series, and begins in the strange and mysterious city of Carnivale ( Read more... )

Realizing that black powder only works in certain regions of Faerie, Sam Smith reluctantly returns to Queen Vivienne and the Mine Faeries accompanied by Sir Spindle, Penny Farthing, and Feliana, the latter of whom has agreed to become his horse and sidekick as long as she can share in his adventures ( Read more... )

Sam stares at the horse in shock and bewilderment, unable to say a word. After a few moments, Sam finds his voice and stammers," You can talk ( Read more... )

Following the enchanted compass, Sam Smith finds himself in a barony ruled by a cruel and greedy warlord who taxes his subjects to the limits of whatever they can possibly afford, claiming that his knights are needed to protect them from the bandits and outlaws in the Wasteland. However, it soon becomes obvious to Sam that the people most need ( Read more... )