Weekly Writing – December 21 2024
It isn’t worth being the one who saves the day. Who sees the plot coming together with wide, roving eyes while everyone else gapes at the screens mounted high in…
Weekly Writing – December 14 2024
The man was ready for it this time, of course. He danced his horse deftly to one side of the first blow, and it obeyed him, despite the stone shrapnel…
Weekly Writing – December 7 2024
He had tasted of rain and blood and not at all as she’d imagined a man might. And when his stiff surprise had melted back into motion, he hadn’t pushed…
Weekly Writing – November 30 2024
“My apologies,” the guest repeated. “I would not want to compromise such loyalty as you seem to have to her, of course.” Yet he still looked at her that way.…
Weekly Writing – November 23 2024
“Anything that moves and acts must be animated by a life force,” the guest explained. “Most people know this, but they make two false assumptions from it. The first is…
Weekly Writing – November 16 2024
“I survived only by luck,” the guest recalled. “The path had broadened just then – or else our attacker wouldn’t have been able to stand on it – and my…
Weekly Writing – November 9 2024
What a cold climb it had been, a purposeful caravan turned to a funeral procession of two. They had ridden in silence and, soon, in soaking rain that turned the…
Weekly Writing – November 2 2024
No one travelled by that road if their destination left them any other choice. Narrow and rocky, it deferred to every twist and ridge of the mountains it traversed, making…
Weekly Writing – October 26 2024
Silence rang in the hall long after the sound of her timid knock had faded. Perhaps the guest had decided he was safest keeping a firm grip on that, on…
Weekly Writing – October 19 2024
It didn’t make sense. There had never been any danger in the manor – there had never been anything but her mistress’s will. A sanctuary as solid and suffocating as…