An old work of mine, this story served as the inspiration for my short story, “The Children,” published in Lost Boys Press’ first anthology CHIMERA!
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Fits and Starts: A Reflection
It was a year.
Filled with the terror and apprehension you wouldn’t normally find anywhere aside from mid-nineties slasher films, 2020 took a lot from us all as many of us sat at home, consuming news and sound bytes at an obscene rate.
Robb, Prince of Lemnos?
Sideromandron is a comic book with plenty of influence from Greek mythology, with a fictitious, former Greek isle, now independent island-state as a major facet of the setting, and the main character, and prince of said formerly Greek state, is a white dude named Robb? Really?
The World of Sideromandron
Like Marvel or DC Comics, the world of Sideromandron is much like our own, it’s a fictional, current-day Earth with a couple science-fantasy twists. Drawing from as many cultures and mythologies as I have any passing familiarity with, it is my goal with my personal fictional Earth to present heroes and villains from a broadly …
Chains of the Abyss
You awake… stirring uncomfortably against a stone at once both smooth and rough… solid. You haven’t felt anything like it in… measurements of time… you’ve forgotten the words… you haven’t needed to use them in so long… You’d slept, in that dark place, longer than you have any bearing for comprehension. You’ve been asleep, but …
Welcome to Slumberland, Pt. 1 – The Lay of the Land
The realms of the Mighty King Morpheus are splendid and sun-dappled plains, dotted here and there by small towns, interconnected by roads for horse-drawn carriages and surrounded by warm, peaceful woodlands filled with the smells of sweet leaves and the sounds of scurrying little creatures. The City of Som surrounds Castle Dreamstone and stretches to …
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The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 5 – Our Lady of Coldhearth and the Lyang Liutan Coven
Many Oreiad, pious and Manshrioi alike, died when the Dragonlord scoured the peaks, now controlled by the Dragonscarred of Godsreach, referred to by the Oreiad as the Wu Tzuzhou, or Witchcursed, for mastery of the Dragon of the Moon. But thousands more died trekking south as they fled the accursed region in search of a …
The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 4 – The Shi Cei Qoji of the Salt Crags
Atop the sheer cliffs that rise dramatically from the western shores beneath the Savage Sea, looming over the King of the Coin’s quaint nation of traders and sellswords, the Shi Cei Qoji Coven reigns with a dramatically iron grip in the name of their Empress. Called the Stonecutters by the Dragonscarred below, the Shi Cei …
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The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 3 – The Witch’s Spine
Central Ticonderos is dominated by dense temperate forests covering miles and miles of hill and short mountains converging into a single, massive mountain range that eventually grows too tall for even the trees to grow upon. This bony protrusion is called The Witch’s Spine and as the Oreiad Empire spread itself ever further, this unique …
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The Oreiad of the High Empire, Pt. 2 – The Covenant of Icethorn
Something is happening in the northern tundras of Ticonderos. The once-unshakeable Oreiad Empire is in chaos and no one knows what, why, or how. Already strained by chaos erupting in the Dhogem communities below them, the kingdoms of the Dragonscarred must also deal now with Oreiad fleeing a mysterious, frigid catastrophe taking place in the …
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