Tag: Mumble
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The Sin Eater 5: Darling Nikki
I guess it was the day of the big snow. Picture Milwaukee, winter, closed schools all across the city. Every school aged boy in the city wakes up to good news and bad. Yes, there is no school, and yes, get your shovel. There was promise of hot chocolate when it was all over. The…
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The Sin Eater 4: The Sons of the Devil
Grandpa needs a name now. He has needed one for a long time, but I have been hesitant to give him one. The man confuses me. I knew and know him as two people. Stories told to me, images locked in my mind. As I look down at the compass I use to try to…
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The Kingdom 7: Eastgate
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So Friday we began at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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The Shieldmaidens 14: Lioness
And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…
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The Shieldmaidens 12: Crimson Cloth
And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…
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The Shieldmaidens 6: K Part 2
And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…
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The Shieldmaidens 4: Lamia
And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…
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The Round Table 28: Mark Part 2
Here we are again. In a fantasy book I haven’t published yet, these two young warriors are escaping an enemy, and they approach a bridge, and the leader yells out, “I’m gonna do it again!” The other one says, “You won’t be happy til you get us killed.” And then they both jump over the…
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The Round Table 25: Ryche Part 2
Here we are again. In a fantasy book I haven’t published yet, these two young warriors are escaping an enemy, and they approach a bridge, and the leader yells out, “I’m gonna do it again!” The other one says, “You won’t be happy til you get us killed.” And then they both jump over the…