short story – Moe Lane

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.

The October Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah. NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so expect a bunch of updates on Patreon next month.

Short Story: Wendigo Country Rules. I didn’t particularly like this dude. But he wasn’t there to be nice.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 3a: The American West. This one… maybe requires a bit more research than I was expecting.

The September Patreon stuff is up!

In the veritable nick of time, but that’s okay.

Short story: The Golem Job. More like a series of connected vignettes (eventually for the RPG), but I think it still works.
RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part Two (B): Wizards and Society. Establishing the complicated relationship of wizards to everybody else.

The May Patreon stuff is up!

Huzzah!

Short Story: THE HUNT. Remarkably easy to write.
RPG setting: Artifacts, Chapter 6: The Temporal Revival Society. New setting, starting next month.

The April Patreon stuff is up!

This was a month where I had to pick myself up by the scruff this weekend and stop messing around. Moral of the story: Fallout 4 is for people who don’t have novels to finish. Anyway!

Fiction: The Strange Case of Webster Domaine. A Tobias/Asenath moon horror story! This was a Kickstarter reward, but very few people saw it, comparatively. Enjoy!
RPGs: Artifacts, Chapter 5: Sample Colleagues. I almost junked this RPG setting early, but I decided to try to come up with interesting temporal flotsam. And it worked! Includes a cameo.

The January 2023 Patreon stuff is up!

And I’m tired!

Fiction: ROCCA JACK AND THE LIQUID GOLD JOB. Privateers! Bears! A vampire! And Cursed Jersey!
RPG material: Artifacts, Chapter 2: The World, Iteration ∞.0. Note the infinity symbol! How swanky!

There ya go.