The cover drew me in, though ‘prequel story’ gave me reservations. Reservations which ultimately showed up on cue and sat down to eat. Let me state at the beginning that the writing is good. The story, however, is not. Because it isn’t a story. It’s the beginning of a story. I got a good glimpse of Phoenix […]
…where Mina is on the hunt! Yes, Monday is comic day! And next Monday is a triple whammy, comic, new Chelsea story, and… the final Mina and Matty story. I am surprisingly unemotional about it. For now. The story has been written for over a year. I’ve dealt with all the weirdness. I’m still in […]
A lovely little story by Sarah Sunday. I was initially intrigued by the blurb, just two sentences long. As that’s my approach to the ancient art of blurb writing, I gave this one a shot. And was intrigued. As always, anything other than third-person threw me for a moment, but the prose, character, and story sucked me […]
Yes, I said happy Monday unironically. You get to do that when you watch the sun rise over the water as you sip your coffee. Anyway, we have a new comic up. And I am currently driving myself nuts. The betas have their grubby paws on Red Witch, and I have nothing to do but wait. […]
I was pretty excited for this story. I love me some epic fantasy, and the cover is just beautiful. The actual story however, was not as satisfying as I had hoped. Firstly, it was dedicated to the founder of Dungeons & Dragons, and as such, seems to have been written to mimic a tabletop campaign. […]
Rick Wilson thought he was in a rut when series of interruptions to his routine turned his rut into a genuine funk. Looking for a change of pace, he runs into Amber Neill, a woman looking for the Monongahela River Monster and a good time. Will a night’s diversion clear up his funk, or does […]
For the first time in… five years, I have abandoned my schedule entirely. I missed the occasional day of my writing blog, but never like what I did over the past two weeks. But moving cross country proved more time consuming that I had planned. I saw some really amazing things on the road. […]
I was more than pleasantly surprised by Deus Ex Rand(): Misfits, demigods, and a beer drinking dog. D.J. Bodden manages to weave an entire new world into one hundred and thirteen pages. The narrator addressing me, the reader, threw me at first. I almost stopped reading on the first page. But the patter of the narration was excellent […]
A dark little piece of lovely by Lizella Prescott. Definitely not your normal retelling of Cinderella. We eshew the gentle, sweet servant girl of yore for a tale about pyrokinetic psycho. And I liked it. It’s short, but rich, and relies on taking the elements of a familiar story and giving them chilling twists. I wanted […]
A stand alone short story about a boy connected to the seasons by potentially malevolent means. While the actual writing is superb, I found the plot anemic. Hartling has a good handle on his characters’s personalities but at times their actions feel like they are done to facilitate the plot, and not organic actions of […]
