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A close friend of mine, Bill Dye, has asked me to co-write Scribble Splatter. As a result, Wyvern Entertainment is being repurposed as exclusively a fiction blog. If you’re looking for meta, criticism, theory, go there. This site will be for my fiction. Feedback welcome.

In my previous entry, I touched incidentally on my aversion to stories set in the “real world”. I didn’t have this problem growing up — although I preferred fantasy and science fiction stories, I consumed far more contemporary realism, mystery, and suspense stories growing up. I started to become a staunch Science Fiction and Fantasy … Continue reading »

During my group’s New Years’ Eve party, one of my friends since before High School and I got to discussing what we’d been watching lately. “I’ve been enjoying Shakugan no Shana,” I said. I am, as usual, late to the scene, but to my surprise my friend, with much more free time on his hands, … Continue reading »

The stone pillars to each side of the dirt road had been overgrown with moss, and lichen covered the fenceposts. The old farmstead had fallen apart once he’d left it. The sheds where the sheep wintered lay in shambles, and the animals grazed in overgrown flowerbeds. Ol’ Mag, the cow that had been ancient before … Continue reading »

Wil huddled on his cot, peering through a crack in the wall that admitted starlight and rooftops. The straw mattress couldn’t hide the hardwood underneath from his bruises. He tried to ignore the tearing sackcloth sounds his Father’s snores made. He tried not to think about the old drunk at all. Curling tighter to keep … Continue reading »

For the last month or two, I’ve been absolutely crazy to see the movie Sucker Punch, or as I heard it called (sounds like a great pitch quote) : “Alice in Wonderland with Machine Guns”.  I’m not aiming to spoil this for anyone, so there’s a courtesy cut below.  Don’t go complaining to me about … Continue reading »