This post is where I keep links to the best stuff I've posted so far (in my mind or everybody else's). It's also a good place to start reading. Categories you'll find below are Fiction, Poetry, Rambling, and Photos. Fiction (novels): -Ember's Heart: For Ember Rehksskari, a hated dragon and last princess of a fallen kingdom, …
Sunshine
Grace is... Trees waving in wind, Water rushing over rocks, A meal and talk and an hour of peace in the sun, Bills still getting paid. Stories come, And towns die, And I cannot change my lot. But, I can believe that it will always be enough, And that tomorrow the sun will still shine.
Hope
What hand holds mine, And does it's owner know me? Do eyes look into my heart, And love what they see in the darkness? Light comes in, And things sizzle and burn That could only live in the night. Who makes a home in my heart, And who dares to want to? Who holds a …
The Unbroken Blade #37 (Zemril)
The ping of an incoming message knocked Zem from a restless dream. In it she had pounded at the double doors into the Daughters of Neralene Headquarters in the Capitol, begging Imrien to let her in while an angry crowd gathered around her, shouting curses as they stared at her dirty, naked body. Imrien had …
The Unbroken Blade #36.5
The unusually intense magnetic field of colony prospect #1194, combined with veins of naturally conductive minerals running throughout the crust, has produced a number of exciting adaptations in the native biome. To mention just a few, there are trees which use mild electrical current to drive moisture through their vascular system, plants which convert electrical …
Burning Away
Holy. Glorious. Gentle. Patient. Kind. Faithful. You command me to praise, and in deepest confusion, I must. What this faith at the heart of my soul must cost. How much flame must I bear to refine it? Oh Lord. I am nothing. All is gone, and I am only a cry, that you are chipping …
Garagran Concept Art for Ember’s Heart
I commissioned a friend to draw up a model sheet as concept art for the Garagrans in Ember's Heart. Chris Doehling, whose professional website can be found HERE, produced this amazing dragon after several back-and-forths. In line with the concept of the Garagrans, she looks like a creature made for battle, with heavy natural armor plating …
The Unbroken Blade #36
Stealing the Vorendrayg. Well. His brother did have some balls after all. Orlin had thought of that option, but considering he himself would have hesitated to try even with a whole division backing him, he had set it aside as unlikely when there were safer deals that could be made. But, now he knew Rixken …
The Unbroken Blade #35.5
“True genius lies in making one enemy fight another for you, and eliminating both in the same stroke as they waste their energy on each other.” -Tethkren Faragoss, greatest of the sorceror kings. Excerpt from his book, Kingship, circa 437 YL. “Day after day their swords harvest blood, And their tongues spread lies, Until …
The Unbroken Blade #35 (Rixken)
“Dear sweet Kai, man, why?” Daneth asked. They had found the spy. It had taken an hour moving at top speed, but after Aysha had flushed him he had abandoned the stolen anchor in a hurry. The name on the login for the machine was false. Naven PirKorin from squad B had fifty witnesses putting …
The Unbroken Blade #34.5
Why must the battles be long? And the way be hard? Why must men betray, and every day bring new trials? Why for every two steps ahead must we slip back three, and why must every single step, without exception, be trod in pain? Listen to wisdom and know: Because this life is about becoming, …
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