Patreon Microfiction: ‘Root Access.’

Ah, “Root Access.” I imagine that being a civilized orcish mage could be a lot of fun. Especially if you use the entire orc thing to cheerfully yell at people who deserve it, to the secret glee of all your more circumspect colleagues. And faculty meetings would never go on and on.

Book of the Week: The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School.

The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School is by Kim Newman, and it is the sequel to his The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, which I did not really realize until afterward. But it didn’t matter: I had a jolly good time reading it anyway, as its protagonist might say. Said protagonist is a superheroine in training, more or less, and she is at a post-Great War girl’s school where that sort of thing might be taught. Or supervilliany, instead. Or mad science, or criminal masterminding, or pulp adventuring: it’s all about making sure that a girl lives up to her potential. As usual, Kim Newman makes it all work.