short story – Moe Lane

The October Patreon stuff is up!

Yes, we are going a bit early today. As the poet said: “Prepare the viands, prepare the foods, prepare the strange wines, for tonight is indeed a great night!”

…Well, hopefully nothing so dramatic as what happened after, but still.

Behold!

Short Story: The Goblin. Fair warning: it’s both short, and fairly horrible. I’m not really sorry about either.
RPG Material: The Cunning Land: Introduction. This is the start of the new project. I wanted to see if I could fit the entire premise of the game world in a children’s poem. Let me know if it worked!
Poem: Halloween 2024. Just for fun.

#commissionearned

The September Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah. Short story is only three thousand words, because I realized I needed to work out who those guys actually were. I have a better feel for them, now.

Behold!

Short Story: Deadlime. A Fermi Resolution story! I have thoughts on what these guys might do.
RPG Material: Resurgence, Part Five: Problems. This may be the last one of this batch.

The June Patreon stuff is up!

It was… not the best month, creatively. Had to push through a few times. Hopefully July will be better.

Anyway, enough whining!

Short Story: Seven Flags. Part One, alas. The aforementioned needing to push through. Anyway, it’s a Fermi Resolution story starring our favorite orc paladin Liza. Well, she’s my favorite orc paladin, at least.
RPG Material: Resurgence, Part Three: Community. I’m pretty sure Community was awful. I just haven’t quite decided whether they were actually the worst option.

The May Patreon stuff is up!

That story didn’t want to gel, for the longest time. Finally did, though.

Short Story: Deseret Horse. Oh, hey, it’s Rex Fang-Blade and Tabetha Frei. Still not entirely happy with that title.
RPG Material: Resurgence, Part Two: The Age of Wonders. Tried to keep it from being entirely happy-shiny.

The April Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah. It’s been a month.

Short story: Flim-Flam Man. …That poor so-and-so. He’ll be horrified to hear that there’s a novel in there, just waiting to make his life miserable.
RPG Material: Resurgence, Part One: The World Today. Just establishing the world, and what things will diverge from.

Enjoy! Or sign up! Or both!

The March Patreon stuff is up!

I had to abandon a story with ten days to go, then finish another one that I abandoned a while back, and I know that this breaks a bunch of writing rules, supposedly. And yet, there’s a short story up. So I don’t know how you score that.

Anyway:

Short Story: DOCTOR RYPMAW’S METHOD. This rather badly wanted to be cosmic horror, but I wasn’t having any of that.
RPG Material: THE RESURGANCE, PART 1. We’re starting a new RPG setting! This one is more or less in the superhero genre. Also, it’ll be designed to be deliberately unstable! Whee!

Thanks for reading!

The January Patreon stuff is up!

It is a measure of this week that I wrote that out originally as ‘December.’

Fiction: The Girl and the Garrison Job. New Fermi Resolution story, for everybody who liked “The Last Raygun in the World.” I also need to stop giving away the plot in the title.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 5a: Troubles, Foreign. Originally ‘Foreign and Domestic,’ but I realized that I had enough material for two parts.

The December Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah!

Fiction: TIMMY AND THE FAT MAN. Timmy! Another heartwarming Christmas tale about my favorite wicked child! I shouldn’t enjoy writing these, but I do.
RPG Material: HEX NATION, PART 4: INDIAN COUNTRY. It would appear that the things historians want to record about Native American tribes are not the same things that I want them to record about Native American tribes. I’m not sure whose fault that is.

The November Patreon stuff is up!

Getting that short story out was like pulling teeth. I mean, it’s been in my damn hard drive for years. I just needed enough spite and aggravation to finally finish it.

Short Story: Walk Away. Because “Thus Do I Refute Omelas” as a title was possibly just a little too on the nose. I knew going in that you’re not supposed to write polemics, only I decided that I just didn’t give a damn.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 3b: Shattered Mexico. I actually didn’t consider the balance there until I sat down to write it, but I think it works fairly well.

Onward to December!

Stayed up to finish wordcount on not-NaNoWriMo.

I might be able to get the short story done tomorrow, and hopefully I will by Wednesday. Then I can go over it again, tighten it up, and get it out by the end of the month. Fair warning: there may be a little spleen involved. I have been in a mood, and this may lance some of it.