Alternative title: 'Can't you buggers wait until November??'
Have a snippet:

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"Do you ever blame me?" he asked, his words full of careful idleness.  There was a long moment before she replied.

"Many times I have lain in your bed, watching the life taken from me play across your face. I have hated you, mylord; I have held my fingers to your chest and ( Read more... )

Idle story thought that came up when passing a church on the way home yesterday ( Read more... )

Woo, I finally finished a Thing!
Short story, ~6500 words, original. Had it for about a year floating in one form or another, but hurrah! Finished!

Well, now I must edit it, and I've probably done that amount again in total on Halfborn and Kore in the last few days, but it's nice to actually finish something. Anyone fancy a beta-ing? It's modern- ( Read more... )

This has been keeping me sane through project-work, when I REALLY needed to do something else. It started off as an attempt at a short story of an evil-adventuring party-type-thing.
Now... it seems to be getting out of hand. Anyway:

Title: Halfborn, Part 1.
Genre: Fantasy (high) Is trope-playtime a genre yet? Contains: Bloody violence ( Read more... )

Falling asleep on the sofa was fine.

Ben leaned forward slightly, trying to get his head at a more useful angle in the tiny reflection in the butter knife.

Falling sleep on top of paperwork was also fine, even if he did now have a kind of office-warpaint in biro printed on his nose.

He made an unsuccessful attempt to pull one-handed at his ( Read more... )

I seem to have written a bit of my in-design High Fantasy-style world.  Hurrah!
However, during the near-obligatory beastie attack, the following exchange occured:

"It's a sheepdragon!"
"Too big.  I've never seen one that siz - "
"Just shoot it!"

...I'm not sure what a sheepdragon is.  There aren't really any dragons in that area, so I'm down to ' ( Read more... )

Clearly I've been writing too many coherant things recently. 
Edit - actually, I think I've just not been writing much non-good guy, crazy person stuff recently.
So, instead:

Glass

I'm looking at you through glass.

The glass. My glass. Bound and sealed away, all-all-all away. Down in the dark. Bright with me, hidden away. Smoke and glass, locked ( Read more... )

Editing the writing post, because I can. Writing.com version, and since I like having more than one archive:

Title: A little dream of you.
Genre: Fantasy, emotional, slightly dark. Genres are so not helpful.
Words: 1,112.
Summary: All stories come to an end. Letting go is another matter.

( A little dream of you )

Cartoon

Zombies!

Songs for change

This site is good - "Songs For Change is a call to songwriters old and new to put into words and music their observations of what's going on in the world today; to write songs that reflect our times."

http://www.songsforchange.com/home.cfm

I got there ( Read more... )

My muse is back!

*showers it with chocolate*

So, yeah, writing.com short story competitions are good inspiration. An old cast sections really don't go away...

Prompt was this picture.

A little random, but hey:

The Oracle of Tul’suné

“This is Tul’suné? It’s…big…”

“Tea-eel hasn’t been out much?”

Three figures slipped through the ( Read more... )