Finally, people get killed, and we learn the protagonist’s name and why he’s leaving town. Please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: An army had broken through from the east two years ago. They did not destroy crops or buildings. They did murder people. They murdered brutally the leaders of the people. I had never […]

In this week’s episode, our hero learns that every good civilization is burdened by a sclerotic bureaucracy. As always, please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: “I was more struck,” Lily’s uncle resumed, “that he calls them the Brother and the Sister.” “Why does that strike you?” Lily’s father asked. “Because it’s latterly nonsense,” Lily’s […]

Our protagonist, after experiencing a little more of Lily’s family, reacts in the only way he knows how: he drinks too much. Please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: As for me, I was neither happy nor unhappy to leave Market Makers. The patronage was all fixed, and I was an outsider: they were there […]

A quick side-by-side comparison. In service of the world; you’re welcome. In all seriousness, demonstrating how the quality of your recording equipment really does make a subtle, but perceptible difference in your presentation of yourself.

Please consider becoming a patron, which you can do at my Patreon site. An excerpt: All the twelves saw their mighty enemy for the first time under the light of day without the distance of the heights of mountains intervening. They were a host, truly, a horde. They were like flies, swarming, without sense or […]

Visit my Patreon page for more stories and much more content. An excerpt: Fear, I have discovered, lays a foundation for fear. The entire day had already been muted fear under bright sunshine. Now I was bound by command to encounter the dark father of Lily, the husband of the goddess-mother, a man of enormous […]

One of the main characters of The Primal Flowers describes, in brief, a lengthy journey he took in behalf of his brother.   An excerpt: Please visit my Patreon page, and consider becoming a patron for the serial production of my forthcoming novel, The Primal Flower. […] Bandits, highwaymen, and robbers are of a sort […]