C.D. Gallant King's Blog, page 34

Characters You've Never Heard Of: X is in "MailboX"

I was walking home from work tonight (or, more appropriately, early this morning) and I found a mailbox turned on its side on Spring Garden Road. My mother-in-law would have called it "arse-over-kettle." It was one of those big red Canada Post bins, the kind that weighs a ton and certainly don't just fall over by themselves. Someone must have pushed the thing over, and this was one of the

Characters You've Never Heard Of: WISCONSIN, PARALLAX

Our guitar-player is not so well off. His name is Parallax Wisconsin, and his parents are the two nicest, sweetest, most normal people you could ever meet. It’s amazing how he ended up as fucked up as he did. He’s an alcoholic, mildly delusional, and extremely apathetic about life. Even worse, he’s a skater, and that alone makes him scum. He keeps blaming his parents for all of his

Characters You've Never Heard Of: VALYA

"Most men would have been terrified, hanging upside down with nothing but a thin silk rope between them and a gory death on the marble floor forty feet below, but Valya was not a man. She was a young woman of barely eighteen winters, little more than five feet tall and born of noble blood. She did not even break a sweat. Did stablehands shake with terror when they groomed their horses? Did

Characters You've Never Heard Of: ULRIC

The guards let Paice through with barely a nod. In many circles through the kingdom Paice held greater respect from the people than the king, and among the soldiers of the realm was one of those circles. Those brave men of Sem who fought so desperately to defend their country would march into hell for their beloved commander, and Paice knew that many of them had. He could not bring himself

Characters You've Never Heard Of: TOYMAKER

“Seventy-fourt' floor,” The old man Clive announced as the elevator reached the designated level. “Please enjoy yer stay in de storeroom of de Forbidden Gifts.” “Okay, we’re looking for a portal," said the boy. "We don’t know what it looks like but we’re pretty sure it’s down here somewhere. Do you know where it is? Where we could find it?” “I’m sorry, but not'ing down 'ere is mapped or

Characters You've Never Heard Of: SKOLVUS

"Of all the strange characters on this ship, it is the navigator who is the greatest mystery to me. John Skolvus is perhaps not as mad at the Captain, but the bright glow of lunacy still flickers across his eyes like the sun on a still river. Skolvus keeps the worst charts and notes I have ever seen. I have read old texts in the tongue of the Arabian moors that make more sense to me than his