Monthly Archives: June 2022

A note lay on the breakfast room table, weighted by a tea mug.  I managed to reach it, catching myself on the table top so that I didn’t collapse onto the floor. “Eclipse,” it began.  “We’re sure you died killing … Continue reading →

Paragraph six and seven. And today I added some paragraphs to the story, filling in a gap in the telling. I’d died, hadn’t I, facing the Star Demons?  No, there’d been something afterwards, the people who lived at the bottom … Continue reading →

Paragraph 5 Without thinking, I checked my Medico rules engine.  The dead-black glyphs were now pure white.   I wasn’t  dead any more.  Somehow my body had returned.  Medico reported that since then I’d had chills to the edge of having … Continue reading →

Paragraph Four I expect that we will accelerate our posting pace, but not quite yet. I really ought to stop doing this to myself, I thought. You’re twelve, I told myself, an age where your persona adventures should involve rescuing … Continue reading →

Paragraph Three A distance out from the house were thick woods. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again. The trees gradually came into focus. Now I recognized where I was. This was the base that Comet and friends … Continue reading →

Paragraph 2 Where was I? I was cold as all get-out. At least my padded coat hadn’t gotten soaked. I forced myself to open my eyes. It was dark, the dark of a darkling twilight under slate-grey clouds. Below me … Continue reading →

Of Breaking WavesVolume 4 of The Girl Who Saved the World. Chapter 1Eclipse Very gradually I swam back to consciousness. I was lying on my stomach, my head resting on one arm. The background noise was heavy rain, beating on … Continue reading →

The readers, some of them, are finally reporting.

“Nothing Can Go Wrong”, a short story about Adara Triskittenion, heroine of Practical Exercise, has been sold to Jagi Lamplighter’s Fantastic School series, Book 5, students on holidays.

Behold the book cover to Practical Exercise.