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Dungeon Stock Part Five, Final.
Dungeon Stock Part Five, Final.
My senses come back to me. I'm sitting in a plain white plastic chair in a small room, a tiny casual-looking office. Much about it seems designed to put people at ease - there's a real houseplant hanging from the ceiling, photos of smiling children beside it, even a hand-drawn picture done by a child pinned up on the ( Read more... ) -
Dungeon Stock, Part Four
Dungeon Stock, Part Four
I regain conciousness in the form of an orc - oh, great, another low-level monster. In the game, the less powerful of a monster you are, the greater the chance you have of being killed, to experience the agony of physical death yet again.
I'm in a small village, and a few other orcs are around me wandering about the crude ( Read more... ) -
Dungeon Stock, Part Three
Dungeon Stock, Part Three
We sit out the rest of the break sharing the soothing silence until my passtime is over. The cafeteria dematerializes around us and I find myself as a skeleton in the capital city's cemetary. Singh isn't around so I know he got yanked to another red-job.
The cemetary isn't too bad. It's fairly easy to find a good hiding ( Read more... ) -
Dungeon Stock, Part Two
Dungeon Stock, Part Two
A couple of hours later and the goblin beside me is weeping but trying to be quiet about it because the hunters are approaching.
I can tell from the cadence of the sobs that the goblin is probably my friend Singh, so I hazard a guess by whispering the name to him. The goblin looks up. "How...?" A few gulps to get some ( Read more... ) -
Short Story: Dungeon Stock, Part One
Dungeon Stock, Part One
The buzzer blares twice and the cell of my door opens. I wait for the guards to command us to step out into the walkway and it's another day, the same as ever: we all file downstairs for fake processed breakfast and crappy, imitation coffee.
The common dining area is huge, grey, and impersonal... just like the jumpsuits we ( Read more... ) -
My Thoughts on "No Compensation" Writing
To all those “employers” who post writing jobs with “no compensation”... please die.
Do you find the above statement a bit harsh, possibly even objectionable? Good. Now you know how people looking for work feel when they see job listings with such hackneyed phrases as: “a great addition to your portfolio”, “possibility of future work for pay”, and “ ( Read more... ) -
My Ten New Year's Resolutions!
1. Hug a random person on the street every day until I am hospitalized from being assaulted by said huggee(s).
2. To complete my movie script, “NIGHT OF THE UNDEAD FURRY”.
3. Finally prove to everyone that squirrels are fully sentient beings from another planet sent here to observe us.
4. Post more true stories about my Mom that embarass her, like the ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to Definately Not The Opera Listeners!
My story about my father, flaming gasoline, and dobermans was just broadcast on CBC One radio, and the DNTO show was kind enough to mention my website. So if you're visiting my humble website after hearing the 'url on the radio, I thank you and recognize your obvious good taste, intelligence, and physical attributes. Uhm, yeah ( Read more... ) -
I'm going to be on CBC Radio tomorrow, Saturday!
I was recently asked to relate one of the stories from my book for the radio show "DNTO" on CBC! Here's the information for my three or four fans (all of whom I love dearly, of course) on the show airing tomorrow:
"Thanks so much for contributing to this week's DNTO. The show will air on Saturday afternoon at 1:30pm on CBC Radio One and on Sirius ( Read more... )