Moe Lane

‘Winners Write History’ is the hundred-word summary of the short story that I’d like to write in the Dark Tide Rising series, if only I could manage to sell it to John Ringo at this exact point in history. Then again: if I can say it in one hundred words, does it need to be a short story? I can never decide.

‘Verdict of History’ is there because of one of my pet peeves: people who assume that they know what their descendants will think of them*. Judging from the entire panoply of human existence, I’m going to guess that said descendants will think of this entire time period as being full of, no exceptions, dangerous barbarians with horrible dentistry. They’ll also likely ignore the popular art of our time in favor of honoring the more obscure art and its creators, which is honestly great and hopeful news for me.

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*Actually, in many cases it’ll be what my descendants will think of them.

Or something. This idea is probably gonna be the new RPG setting AND this month’s Patreon story, though. Efficiency! Cthulhu Mythos!

Also: Patreon!

For the next Patreon offering. This would be explicitly Cthulhu Mythos, with a HEAVY reliance on The King in Yellow. Thoughts?

Idea: Emperor Norton I did die on January 8, 1880 — and his body was taken over by the King in Yellow, which then used Norton’s miraculous ‘recovery’ to insidiously spread through California.  Now it’s 1911, and San Francisco mayor Winthrop is about to run for President, on the strength of his leadership during the horrible statewide earthquake of 1906. And Norton’s husk is finally about to die.

Really, though: don’t we do this every day, with the choices that we make? All that the protagonist is doing in “Killing Them With Kindness” is making informed choices. Choices are good, aren’t they?

I mean, do you really want to wait until the next decade before you sign up for my Patreon, and get fiction and gaming material on a regular basis? Of course not! You’re too smart for that! Which is why you’ll sign up tonight!

Spent the evening finishing the story. Will probably spend tomorrow not making it suck. You can read it on Patreon, once I’m done!

This passage from ‘Learning the Basics’ didn’t make it into last November’s NaNoWriMo. Maybe in the next book in the series. Or the one after that.

Link here. You know how it is: trying to juggle writing stuff during the holidays, and all that. Especially since we thought that the tree was on fire at one point. Turned out that our neighbor’s boyfriend was just making barbecue ribs in the back yard next door.

Had to fix a sentence in ‘First Line of Defense:’ it kind of came across as garbled. Ach, well. It happens.