A joyous Yule or other festival of choice to everyone. As in previous years, I am participating in Loren Eaton’s Advent Ghosts 100-word scary story project. This year, a little something to leave you shook: Can't Even According to JonAAAh it was the dankest meme ever like if chill but not chill was meta. Was … Continue reading Advent Ghosts: Can’t Even
Writing
Mocking the Devil
The rather knowledgeable and decidedly spiffy Yvonne Aburrow has issued a challenge to write an Occult Clerihew. In remembrance of the first conversation I had with her, I have chosen to respond with a whimsy upon the founder of the Church of Satan: The purveyor of ethical evil LaVey Liked his faith with a bit … Continue reading Mocking the Devil
A Verse about Childhood
A reminder that they don't make nostalgia like they used to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eVMWh71SmE You might wonder if there is some message behind my sharing this poem now... but I couldn't possibly comment.
Boke Pays for Noodles
During my ongoing research for my Legend of the Five Rings game, I recently discovered the Japanese art of rakugo, a form of humorous storytelling where the performer remains seated but acts out parts of the story using a fan and a small cloth. As part of last week's session, my character tried to distract … Continue reading Boke Pays for Noodles
Sometimes You Follow the Ox
Truth is a cold coal Grasped from the heart of the fire Dead trees come alive
Advent Ghosts: Dirty Hands
A joyous Yule or other festival of choice to everyone. As in previous years, I am participating in Loren Eaton’s Advent Ghosts 100-word scary story project. This year, a riff on a traditional creepy trope: Dirty Hands Light dances. Glass explodes. “Are you all right?” Josie appears from the kitchen. “Vase fell off. Almost hit … Continue reading Advent Ghosts: Dirty Hands
Self-Publishing Glossary: From a-book to zero rating: the Terms indie authors need to know, ed. Orna A. Ross
Ross gathers jargon and practices from across the spectrum of publishing in a book that will be of equal use to authors looking to move into e-publishing and those looking to expand beyond the accessibility of KDP. This book collects hundreds of publishing terms, covering the entire period from finished manuscript to post-publication for both … Continue reading Self-Publishing Glossary: From a-book to zero rating: the Terms indie authors need to know, ed. Orna A. Ross
Season of the Cultist
Haiku are closely associated with Zen, a philosophy which suggests human life has no intrinsic elevated value and reality is not as most people perceive it. Although often rather less bleak in expression, this view of existence will be immediately recognizable to Lovecraft fans as very similar to cosmicism. So, as I like both haiku … Continue reading Season of the Cultist
WICKERPEDIA, ed. Kristin Garth & Nick Morrissey
Mixing perspectives on the power of belief, both good and bad, to shape lives with attempts to capture the experience of believing, the Garth and Morrissey create an experience as filled with poetry, awe, and horror as the films that inspired it. This anthology features twenty poems, five flash fictions, three articles, and two pieces … Continue reading WICKERPEDIA, ed. Kristin Garth & Nick Morrissey
Larry Niven and Ringworld Time
Last month, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Larry Niven for Mythaxis Review. The transcript has just been published on their website. Larry Niven is perhaps best known for Ringworld and The Mote in God’s Eye (co-authored with Jerry Pournelle). Winner of multiple Hugo Awards (for both novels and short stories), the Nebula Award, … Continue reading Larry Niven and Ringworld Time
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