Category Archives: Short Stories

The Stone gets a Daily Deviation

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Hey.

You might remember I entered The Stone in a contest on Deviantart. It got a honorary mention, but it seems the reward itself came a bit later. Today to be precise.

The Stone was given a Daily Deviation, which means that — for today — it appears on the front page of Deviantart for the millions of visitors to see along with a selection of other artists works. The effect is pretty clear seeing as the work has been viewed by over 2300 people today with 700 people downloading the PDF. The comments have been largely positive so I’ve been feeling pretty good all day 🙂

Hopefully this translates to a few more readers for my works in general, but we’ll see. Even if it doesn’t, it has been great seeing so many people give my writing a go.

The Stone and the Contest Results

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You might remember that a few months ago I posted a story called The Stone on here and mentioned it’s taking part in a contest on Deviantart. Well, the results are in on that.

Out of 59 works submitted, three were rewarded and four got a honorable mention. The Stone was among those four works that got a honorable mention. To be honest I wasn’t expecting it to do that well, but it’s always a pleasant surprise to see yourself proven wrong.

You can find the full results here: Daily Literature Deviations Summer Contest results.

Some good works there if you’re looking for some short pieces to read 🙂

The Game and Some Updates

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No new chapter this week, but I’ll give you a short Sci-Fi piece instead. It’s one of those stories that has clawed its way out of the darker corners of my mind so it has a lot of things in it; strong language, nudity, violence, gore, the usual suspects.

The story focuses on Tom, a nervous wreck of a man whose debtors are hot on his heels, wanting their money. Having scavenged an cyborg leg from a body floating in the river, he hopes to get enough money for it from an used parts shop, but things are not that simple..

Here’s the link: The Game

As far as the next long term story goes, I now have about 27 pages of it written. Still a bit unsure about it, but feeling much better than a week ago. Starting to think it will actually work out with a bit of tweaking. Still, expect it to take at least a few more weeks before you get to see the first chapter. Meanwhile, there might be a few more short stories I’ll get to finish to keep you reading 🙂

The Voyage of Elwar Soran – Chapter 18 & Other Updates

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Lots of things to say this time around. Let’s start with the traditional new Sunday chapter. That is, chapter 18 of our story. It’s the second to last one and sheds some light to the events that took place in the previous chapter. It takes the story even further away from the traditional roots of the genre, but I hope it works 🙂

As usual, new chapter has been added to the part three PDF: The Voyage of Elwar Soran – Part Three

On top of that there’s a short story I completed that has been laying around on my hard drive for months. It gives us a glimpse to the life of the Northern Barbarians that roam the plains of Balaria. It focuses on a young man called Diew and in his part in the clans traditional Midsummer Festival. I hope you find it enjoyable.

Link: Midsummer Festival

Also, a bit of an heads up that my website might be unreachable for a day or two in the nearby days or weeks. I’m changing my hosting company as the current one has become unbearably expensive compared to what you get with your money. So, if some day the website doesn’t load, don’t be alarmed. Just try again the next day 🙂

The Stone – A Short Story

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The Stone is a story about two homeless men living under a bridge. One morning Sam discovers a peculiar object that ends up changing the lives of both men.

Story link: The Stone

This is my entry to the Summer Contest hosted by Daily Literature Deviations on Deviantart. You can read more about the contest here. The other entries can be found here. As of this posting mine has yet to appear there as I submitted it only moments ago. It’s waiting approval. Hopefully it will appear there soon.

The Practicioner: A Short Story

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Here’s a little something I spent a few hours on during the past few days. Not sure why my short ones always seem to go on a path on the dark side of things, but I hope it still works out ok and you like. This does take place in the world of Balaria, though in a portion that isn’t on the map(yet). For now it’s a stand alone short story, but I’ve been toying with the idea of taking the premise and working it into a longer story. We’ll see if that materializes in the future.

Anyway, here’s the link: The Practicioner

Also, there’s now a Twitter link in the links section. Not sure I’ll use it that much, but we’ll see how things go. At the very least it’s one more way to follow updates about my writings.

The Success of Failure

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Near the end of 2011 I entered a writing contest on Deviantart. The theme of it was ‘Hope And Despair Under Empire’. What they basically sought for were texts that displayed hope and/or despair under any sort of oppressive power, be it drugs, rule of tyranny by men or what have you. You can find the original contest announcement here.

I entered the contest with a piece titled ‘Failure’. It is a short view into the desperate life of a man who has lost just about everything in a world now ruled by aliens instead of humans. Here’s a link to it:

Failure

Anyway, the judging of the contest finished today and I received a honorary mention for a tied fourth place. 25 texts were submitted to the contest. You can find the winner announcement here. Can’t say I’m unhappy with the result. To be honest even fourth place feels pretty darn good for someone who entered a writing contest of any sort for the first time in his life.

Anyway, if you enjoy my piece I suggest reading the winning entries as well. They’re quite good 🙂

A Short Story 2

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Hi.

Here’s a short story I wrote. It has nothing to do with the world of Balaria, just something random that popped into my mind. It’s a bit on the dark side, much more so than anything else I’ve written so far.

Anyway, here’s the link:

The Rescue

Also, happy holidays to everyone and an explosive new year 🙂