***I don't suppose that you really NEED to, but if you don't follow my work, it might help to read "The Smoke-Girl & her Northern Ghost" for a bit of background on Gunnar. If it helps, this is set about 983AD. Louhi is the name of a powerful witch out of Finnish mythology, also known as the Mistress of the North. She is the inspiration for the protagonist'...
***This was written during a time when the autumn is fading and the first tentative blasts of winter lie just out of sight around the corner. It's still October and the first freak three-inch snowstorm has made its entrance and slunk out like a person who has blundered into the wrong high-school class and only realized it after sitting down. This chapter h...
Previously on "Come As You Are" - Four lifelong friends reunite for their ten-year high school reunion -- professional chef Brenda Lattimore, celebrity video game streamer Sadie Green (nee Bedford), recently engaged ski instructor Michelle Min, and local business owner Collette Hansen. Over drinks and dinner the night before the reunion, the girls discover t...
"But a promise made must be honored. As true for a commoner as it is for a queen." Geralt, 'The Witcher', Netflix movie My roommate, Rob and I were doing real well with the ladies and partying hard until this quarantine was imposed on us and we were stuck on the eighth floor in this ten story apartment building. Of course, we were going nuts and getting de...
*** Ah well, I missed Hallowe'en once again. :( This chapter predates some of the last one by a few days at one point, but the rest is pretty much concurrent. I doubt that you'd notice, so it's no big deal, really. There is a character in it which I've always found to be a little laughable, no doubt the imaginings of some "wise men" someplace. It began as...
Year 2183 of the Third Empire Morndas, the first day of Morning Star About 10am The incessant banging reverberated around my head and I thought, as my brain slowly kicked into gear, that it was simply the start of one hell of a hangover. From somewhere deep within I groaned, instantly smelling the gods only knew what on my breath. Definitely the remnan...
Thanks to those who commented at the end of the first chapter. It heartened me that the reaction was positive. A few of you asked for the history and perhaps a broader idea of the world I've created. So at the start of the next few chapters will be a timeline of history for the world and then a small codex of further information you might find interesting....
*** This is a one-off, written in a single afternoon and it's based on a couple of things. One of them is a Frank Frazetta painting done back in 1978. I don't know if the title is correct, but what I saw was called "Night Winds". The other thing was a line spoken in the film "The Thirteenth Warrior", so if you can imagine those two things inspiring me, the...
Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, George forget his wife, his children, and his grandchildren. Continued from Chapter 04: She paused as if thinking what she was going to say next. Then before asking him and interrogating him, she looked at him with renewed sexual arousal. As if she was imagining him with her sister, she continued masturbating herself whi...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 C.E. (Chapter Three) President's Office, Raccoon University, Raccoon City "...alright, next there is a group of students at the high school. Jill, Claire, Zoey, and Wichita will come with me to the high school. Alice, you're in command until we return," voices Arthur. Arthur, Alice, Jill Valentine, Abigail Wolff, Claire Redfi...