Moe Lane

The alternate title to “Can’t Catch Me” ought to be Parents: THINK Before You Tell Your Children Fairy Tales.  Then again, that’s a pretty dang bad title. Or even a worse word than ‘dang.’

Link here for the PDF, but I’d prefer it if you went to my Patreon account and read Night Patrol there.  And then told all your friends.  And have them sign up for my Patreon.  Anyway, this story is absolutely free. Hope you enjoy.

“‘Ware Thorns” reminds us that plants aren’t more naturally peaceful and accommodating; they’re merely very slow, from our point of view. And generally sessile anyway.  But sometimes you mess with them at your peril.

Short Story: “A Most Successful Demon Summoning”

The Fermi Resolution, Part 7: Adventure Themes

Patron-only, so if you’re not, well: click the link below.

“Permanent Houseguests” is admittedly a low-probability scenario. Unless it’s, I don’t know, simply a species worldview mismatch or something. Then it might make more sense.  Maybe.

Patreon!  Close to a 3K word short story per month!  So tantalizingly close…

No, I don’t know how the stardrive in “Ignorance Is Bliss” would work.  In fact, I don’t know how ANY stardrive would work.  I don’t have the math — and I don’t know what I would do with it if I had it, either.

The New Wave: a magical alternative history of the 1980s. If the idea of playing a campaign where the punks, the new wavers, the gothic rockers, the synth-poppers, the hip-hoppers, the glam metal-heads, and everybody else that you watched on Martha Quinn-era MTV are laying down some arcane beats — and dressing accordingly, just because — then I think that you’ll like this one.  I’m finishing up my current campaign world (the Fermi Resolution) either this month or next month, so it won’t start right away.  Which is good, because I have to go listen to a hell of a lot of music now.

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“More For Us!” asks the question that nobody else would: is it always bad when astral parasites gather to batten on your pain and suffering?  Admittedly, maybe it’s not the most obvious and rewarding question that nobody else has ever asked, but I gotta work with what I got. Besides, microfiction is a nicely flexible field for these sorts of self-contained literary concepts.

Of course you do! But you don’t want to waste it, either! If only there was a way to spend that dollar in a way that benefited both you, and the world… well, friends, I’m not going to lie to you, and I’m not going to soft-soap you, either: there is a way that helps everyone.

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“Sentimental Value” is my paean to the notion that, even in our glorious transhumanist future, we’re probably going to have to deal with the little things in day to day life.  Also, that people who are in glorious transhumanist futures are probably not going to wander around all day breathlessly going “Hey! How about that Singularity, huh?” …OK, wait, some of them probably will.  Somebody always does.

“Peacework” could have maybe benefited by a few more words. The pun in the title and the examples used can only be stretched so far to hint at the larger point. Ach, well, this is how I learn.

I don’t subscribe to all that many, myself. But I do subscribe to some; and I’d thought that I’d give three (four) Patreons that I’d suggest that you try, and why you should sign up for them.  Even if it’s at the buck level.

• Freefall (Science Fiction Webcomic, Mark Stanley).  Freefall is one of the best SF comics out there, only you’ll take a bit to realize it because the heroes are a genetically uplifted anthropomorphic wolf, an alien squid monster stuffed into a spacesuit, and a roly-poly robot.  But it’s consistently good, and currently grappling with the highly complex ethical problem of how to deal with artificially-created intelligence. Worth a buck.
• Meg Syv & Yoko Weaver (Fantasy Webcomic) These two do Daughter of the Lilies, which is a lovely webcomic that half of you already read, and the rest should start. And it’s also absolutely worth a buck a month.
• Eric A Burns (Geek Author, Artist). Eric is an old friend of mine, and a peer of mine, artistically speaking.  I don’t offer that compliment lightly; as you may have noticed, I do not exactly lack a healthy sense of self-esteem.  I also find it absurd that he’s getting less out of Patreon than I am, so check his stuff out. A buck per collection of stuff (probably mostly superhero related); I’m personally looking forward to the next one.

Moe Lane

PS: What?  Geez.  The fourth Patreon would be ME, of course.  Surely that was obvious?