Tag: Fiction

• October 30, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 16

  We’re so close! 3 days! And I’ll be ordering a run of author copies of Book 2 soon! Today’s tale is an epistolary, a fancy word meaning one told through letters, journals, other types of text. It is also much more horror/suspense than before, although with a penumbra twist. 16 – Black Sky Come: It…
• October 28, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 14

  Today we turn to kind of a mash of two favourite genres: near future dystopia and cyberpunk. This is one of the longest in the series so far. 14 – Mermaids In Bali: Riah left Bali after it was flooded by the ocean. She wanted to be a professional mermaid entertainer, with only a hand-me-down…
• October 27, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 13

  It’s happeninnng. But also, today we dive into my gothic little heart with a side of the grotesque. 13 – DeadWorld: The world has cured death, rendering all those who take the Life Treatment effectively immortal. But it didn’t stop there. Those that took the cure outlawed any signs of death, any funerary rites or…
• October 26, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 12

  Wherein we look at the continuing story weaving between and sometimes through the rest. 12 – Arrivals (The Penumbra Part 3): The end of Part 2 saw three strangers suddenly appearing at places around the manor. Here we find out who they are and why they are here. Sent to the house or drawn there…
• October 25, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 11

  One week left, and 8 of the existing stories to cover. 11 – The Harridan: It is 1999. A witch cursed to never age nears her 1000th birthday. A chance encounter with someone that is immune to her powers has her reflect over several important events over her life, all right around each notable year.…
• October 24, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 10

  Halfway! Let’s tap into some newer stories, more recently written. The next few take us farther across time than the ones before. 10 – A Song From The Sahel, Or A Bard’s Tale: It is the middle of the 14th century in Mali, Africa. One of the richest civilizations in history. A young djeli (or…
• October 22, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 8

  We are in the last few stories found in Book 1. And that much closer to the end of the month! This one is another sci-fi departure. This one was inspired by asking “what if you view language as a monster?” 8 – Across A Full Dark Sea: On a far off small, wintry planet,…
• October 19, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 5

  The story today is a departure from the spookier, darker mystery/supernatural horror of the others. 5 – Dace: A young man previously dying of cancer in a near future city has found a loose collective of artists deep in the web. These people sample all the senses throughout their massive city and create remixes of…
• October 17, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 3

  Two weeks until devil’s night! And the revised text for Book 1 is nearly complete. Busy, busy. Here’s today’s story spotlight: 3 – Wolf Season: Jasper Davison is an old drama queen. Literally. A star of stage and the small screen once, but now aging, an event in the city prompts him to pack up…
• October 14, 2026

  18 Days Of Penumbra

  Hello. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? We keep quiet here unless there is something to say. And oh my, now there are certainly some things creeping in from the lands out there. So to celebrate  the approach to the Best Holiday Of The Year, we’re going to do a post a day for the…