spinning yarns from heartstrings
Actual years have fallen by the wayside in the days since I last released a piece of fiction, swallowed in the bottomless pit of time, but this Halloween I break my silence at long last with a dark fantasy short story that promises to leave you feeling empty and cold and longing for the light […]
Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of joining a pack of other students, including one of my favorite people, S.W. Sondheimer, in Cat Rambo’s (virtual) Academy for Wayward Writers to attend Ann Leckie’s class: To Space Opera and Beyond. I love Space Opera. I love reading it, and watching it, and learning about. A few […]
A companion story to the Serpent of Time series, Lorelei tells the story of the heroine’s parents and the love they once shared for each other. LORELEI By Jennifer Melzer Drawing the brush through the flowing tangles of her hair, Ygritte’s back teeth clenched tight together. She gripped the brush handle with such force the […]
The first time I met Geralt of Rivia I was standing in the magazine aisle at the local grocery store. He was staring back at me from the cover of some PC gamer magazine I have long-since forgotten the title of, and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was set to launch for PC. The […]
I remember reading an interview with J.K. Rowling right around the time The Order of the Phoenix came out in which the interviewer asked Rowling if Professor Severus Snape was truly irredeemable. She said he’d done unforgivable things, that some people are just bad and that’s all there is to it, but even then I […]