Brilliance in the Derelict
Lights weren’t uncommon in the Derelict. Though the sun was smog and mists permanently obscured, small lights littered the Derelict. Thousands of little colored lights abounded. But the light that Flint and I beheld...
Monthly Archive: March 2021
5 Tips for Better Fight Scenes
Fight scenes are hard to write- in print media, especially so. When I read books, I usually only skim said fight scenes. In fight scenes, there is always so much going. So, it’s hard...
Lost in the Derelict
“I want to turn back.” The words kept tumbling around in my head. I’d led us here into the Derelict. Now, Flint and I had realized that it was the height of folly. Flint...
The Art of Saying Nothing
There is an art to saying nothing – in finely crafting your words so that they are devoid of any meaning. “When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements,...
The Things I Don’t Know
“Hello, world,” I remember my first thoughts with the same precision with which I remember everything else. At the time, I didn’t quite know what the words meant or why I said them. Now...
Into the Derelict; Into the Ruin
The Derelict drew everyone’s eye. The Derelict was our open secret, a mess of metal and swamp that gathered people like moths to a candle. Many went in adventurers, conquerors, thrill-seekers, heroes, search parties....