Tag: the penumbra

• October 31, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 18

  Happy Halloween! Have a Spooktacular day! This is it (for now)! 18 – The Ritual: Summer has come on fast and Charles is having nightmares but also acquiring various artifacts and strange pieces of equipment to enact a plan dreamed up long ago. The others in the house work and watch and wait, while newcomers…
• October 30, 2026

  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…
• October 29, 2026

  Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 15

  My love letter to the video stores of the ’80s and ’90s, one of my favourite places to be. Also some D&D and heavy metal (yes, like another spooky show, but in a very different direction). 15 – A/V Magic: It is 1987 in a small eastern Canadian town. Stores that rent video tapes and…
• 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 23, 2026

  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…
• 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,…