Tag: Peter Redfist

  • Nemesis

    Nemesis

    Eliot Ness and Al Capone. Seinfeld and Newman. Harvard and Yale. Achilles and Hector. Enemies is the wrong word for the phenomenon. It is not an enemy. It is a nemesis. There is a difference. Nemeses could have at one point been friends. They have similar qualities. The things that make one great reside in…

  • Write Like a Gangster, Class 19: Dialogue Continues

    Write Like a Gangster, Class 19: Dialogue Continues

    Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment: “Collision” and “Mrs. Galvin” chapters from Teardrop Road The Vanishing Tag This is the lesson I have heard when it comes to dialogue: Don’t tag too often. Don’t get too specific with your tag. First, let’s define tag. A tag is very simple. He said is a tag. We…

  • Dreveren: Chapter 1

    Dreveren: Chapter 1

    CALM Nine Years After The Escape The ship froze to the shore within an hour of reaching it. It was an ice shore, a skirt of ice that surrounded the continent and barred the way into any ports. Joho claimed that cities had been built on the ice and they allowed for the passage of…

  • Beacon: Chapter 1

    Beacon: Chapter 1

    SPARK TO FIRE Five Years After The Escape Jordai Stonefist saw Aaron the Marked turn his back from the bar, and the drinks they pretended to drink, to glance at the pub behind them. Then he turned back to Jordai. “We are done. We have to move,” Aaron said. He slipped his hand in his…

  • Wrath of Madness: Chapter 1

    Wrath of Madness: Chapter 1

    THE MEN OF SKY COUNTRY One Year After The Escape Aaron the Marked crouched outside the village, his king chief Peter Redfist and his brother Jordai Stonefist beside him. Thousands of warriors bedecked in thick steel, bearing brutal weapons, stomped past them and headed into the heart of the town. They had come from distant…

  • The Kingdom 22: Halloween

    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…

  • The Kingdom 18: The Strips

    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…

  • The Kingdom 15: The Apprentice

    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…

  • The Kingdom 11: Thunder from the Throne

    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…

  • Nemesis

    Eliot Ness and Al Capone. Seinfeld and Newman. Harvard and Yale. Achilles and Hector. Enemies is the wrong word for the phenomenon. It is not an enemy. It is a nemesis. There is a difference. Nemeses could have at one point been friends. They have similar qualities. The things that make one great reside in…