In the Grim Darkness of Overacting, Why Not a Lance, and Mighty Strong Words…

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. Raptor and Thorn Broadways groaned as Tanu turned a tense situation into what had promised to be a bloody and expensive one. The governor's own guard stood unmoving and impersonal, like an iron... Continue Reading →

Open Hand Slap, Backroom Deals, and Powertools…

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. Ring of Forgiveness The first cut opened the creature's thigh, the second dropped it to its knees. It howled in pain and blew fetid gales of poison at its persecutor. Wilkinson spun left,... Continue Reading →

Not a Good Day to Die, Pitch Perfect, and the Sacrifice of Life…

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. The Martyr of Inx His body told the story of a man the world had not yet stopped trying to murder.  Long gashes, short puckered grey scars, scabbed over cuts all crissed and... Continue Reading →

Safety At a Price, A Good Death, and When You Play the Game of Thrones…

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. The Dome of the Lost Pria lunged and the skitterling gurgled its last at the end of her sword.  Behind her, the rest of her comrades were bloodied and weary--the whole night had... Continue Reading →

Next to Godliness, A Night’s Rest, and The Right Tool

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. The Short Supply of Lavishness Brand hummed a tuneless old melody that he couldn't have hoped to have placed or recalled where he'd picked it up--the sort of song that was lost to... Continue Reading →

Grappling Teeth, A Nail in the Head, and a Drop of Rain

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. Faahngheim Birken Rage-on-the-Mountain was not scared. Six times, he had fought the Kwearanim. Six times, he had broken their backs and made a gift of their lifeless shattered body to his people. The... Continue Reading →

Footsteps, Pain and Pain, and “Just Like the White Winged Dove…”

You can find the ever-growing list of "Better Than Nothing" items  over on the right. Read 'em, like 'em, share 'em, and comment. The Path of Light  "I saw the path..." the girl said, "I saw it and I followed." She was a slip of a girl, and the large man in his beaten but polished... Continue Reading →

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