spinning yarns from heartstrings
***The Following Post May Contain Spoilers! Read at your own Risk!*** First of all, could the title for this blog post be any longer? Secondly… there is no secondly. Let’s just get down to business. I’ve been wanting to write these blog posts for a while, but I needed to consume the episodes again (and […]
One day he would rebuild her, all of her–she whom he lost in order to find himself, but first he needed to remember her face in perfect detail. The tightly pinched lips that once told him: no! don’t! STOP! The wide, terrified eyes that refused to look at him because they saw him, always saw […]
The wrong kinds of spirits will make sure she’s never free, trust me on this. They thrive on madness, obsession. Someone in her frame of mind should never have been permitted access, and now… because she’s distanced herself from this realm, drawing her back to us will be damn near impossible. Don’t you see? She […]
Set before the Witcher Saga and somewhere in between the short stories collected in The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, Season of Storms finds Geralt completing a contract on a uniquely intelligent monster and then finding himself on the end of a scheme when he heads in to collect the bounty. Refusing to accept the pittance they agree […]
“What part of till death do us part did you not understand, Carmella?”
He was supposed to be tutoring the boy, teaching him the fundamentals of rulership and government, about the provinces surrounding his kingdom, and the art of managing the crown’s finances because it was important that a ruler never allow someone else to do all the work. It was how mischief was made, how greedy fools […]
He threw her body in the well and thought that was the end of her, of the harm she would have brought him. He would go back to his life, forget his mistake, honor his wife the way he was supposed to. In time, he became an honest man, save for the dark secret he […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time on other projects, and have been absolutely swamped with work, and when that happens I don’t get to do nearly as much reading for pleasure as I’d like to do. Fortunately, there are comic books to tide me over when I have less reading leisure time. Even more […]
For too long, the song lingered on the wind, a chorus of certainty warning those who never listened: “Winter is coming.” And though the wise never say it, they know what the words really mean: ice in their bones, in their eyes, in their hearts, in their souls. The whole world frosting over as his […]
Benei stilled his mind with a deep breath, lungs expanding, stomach rising, fear expelling from his body in slow waves as he exhaled. He thought of Master Chen Khong’s achievement of true emptiness, and momentarily wished his own karma had been stillness. Alas, he was meant for less humble, more worldly achievements. When all was […]