Tag: Indie Author
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Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 17
Back to science fiction with this one, and it’s all about fungus. Fungus and its relationship to humanity, space travel, and other things. Apparently this was part of the new Star Treks, but I didn’t watch those! 17 – Two Kingdoms: The story is told through ship logs that jump throughout 3300 years of space…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 9 (and 7!)
Well, look at that. Someone was asleep for a second and a whole day slipped by. So we do two for one! We return to the theme of wolves and people that may take after them, or wolves after us. Although this one is only tangentially related to other wolfiness, it continues the sub-themes and…
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Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 6
I cannot wait for next weekend, though there are plenty of spooky things happening this weekend as well. Today, the first full continuation of The Penumbra, the mainline story. Sort of like the occasional X-File running storyline episode, but more coherent. 6 – Manor of Gloaming (The Penumbra Part 2): Charles Gloaming has been miraculously…
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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…
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Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 4
2 Weeks to the Spooky Eve! Just over 2 to Dia de Los Muertos, which is more celebratory than spooky! Speaking of celebrations: 4 – Umbrafest: There’s a horror film festival happening in a western Canadian city that features a wide variety of shlock and earnest movies. Arti, a young film student, volunteers for it,…
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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…