Up next, I will be posting a very experimental piece of work, Ozzie Fitch.
Ozzie Fitch is a tale of hope, of struggle, of friendship through the trials of life, but mostly about pain. The pain we carry, the pain we share, and the pain that could cripple us if we are not careful.
Some hide their pain, turn from it in an attempt to maintain their veneer of adulthood. Some succumb to it, turning bitter and cynical as they see any joy or passion for life as a morbid lie.
With that short batch of Cliffside Short-stories finished, I am now forced to look at what comes next for my Saturday postings. Of all the writing I’ve done, what fits best in a sidelong once-a-week format? I have more short stories, but not enough to outlast the weeks of books I have to upload. Do I write more short stories? Use Saturday to upload drafts and show my process? Only post personal bloggings about how I feel or what’s going on in the news today?
A whole new website design!
With my RPG treatise finally complete (or at least as complete as anything ever is, in my head…) it is time once more to return to the dark and twisted world of Edmund Moulde, and the second book of the Macabre Quadrilogy.
In many ways, this book was supposed to be the first book in Edmund’s story. I had imagined a very Rowlingesque (sans bigotry) opening of the odd little Moulde boy being tested after he used the chemicals from his sister’s makeup kit to revivify his dead pet rat.
So ends the first story in the Edmund Moulde quadrilogy. With some time to spare before my treatise on the medium of RPGs is finished, I will spend the next few Saturdays uploading some short stories set in what I ended up calling The Cliffside Universe
After all, Brackenburg is only one of the major cities in the Britannian Empire, and a steadily decaying one, at that. There is room for stories across the globe as the world slowly changes from steam-punk to diesel-punk, and no one city is better suited to display the variety and complexity of that transition than Cliffside, hub of trade, adventure, and diverse stew of humanity.
Noriama About Hard-Sci-Fi has always interested me as a genre. It’s that same strange mix of education and indulgence that was sprinkled through 80s-90s public television; an adult version of Bill Nye or Sesame Street. It’s also a clever assertion that both fantasy and active-imagination are not necessarily required to create engaging stories. It is, in a sort of way, historical revisionism of the future.
You can err on the side of education, such as with A City on Mars, or with entertainment, such as Project Hail Mary, but the goal of Hard Science Fiction is to not only be narratively “true,” but factually as well.
With Kindness With a knife
I have cut the cake into slices.
Little slices, big slices, some get the flowers.
Here is your slice, here is mine.
You cannot have my slice. It is for me. That one is yours.
Aren’t you grateful to me?
And my knife?
Original Post With Kindness
Manifest RPG Design Blog About After reading so many RPGs, playing so many RPGs, and thinking about everything that is the medium of RPG, I decided I needed to put my money where my mouth is, and actually create an RPG. The following are the posts of me detailing my thought processes.
Posts Introduction First Steps Setting Manifestations Emotions Bond and Tier Static Versus Dynamic Dice The RPG Medium About I love RPGs, and have played them for most of my life.
Here is a collection of all my short stories:
1888 Amenti This short story was made using the solo RPG: 1888 Amenti, by Mundos Infinitos. More of an experiment than anything, this story was given little to no revision after completion.
1888 Amenti Taxman As a lover of Terry Pratchett, Death has been a character for an incredibly long time. This naturally suggests the question: where is Taxes? Of course, Terry answered this in a way with the Auditors, but I decided to make a short-story joke about it anyway.
Welcome one and all, to my collection of all my books, short stories, posts, musings, and other little oddscrawls that crawled across my brain. This website may change format semi-regularly as I experiment with format and schedule; I appreciate your patience as this repository evolves.
Currently, I am involved in uploading the following projects:
Noriama: My take on Hard Sci-Fi. The first human exo-planitary colony suddenly goes dark, and four people are sent on a suicide mission of mercy.
