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Sunday Stars ‘In Numina’ with Felix the Fox

This comes at a low point in the case, Felix has broken a leg and is mostly confined to home. He has managed to deactivate some curses (in the form of tabella definiones – curse tablets – but is yet to go after the person who commissioned them. In comes Araxus, his magically talented but mentally unbalanced acquaintance. This is how Felix deals with things, when he gets stuck.

As if to reinforce that point in a grim reminder of my past, the next morning I found Araxus knocking on my door. Bed...

A Bite of… Assaph Mehr

We managed to persuade Assaph Mehr, creator of Felix the Fox and the world of Egretia to sit down long enough to answer some questions for us.

Q1: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

I’d love to be close to classical Europe again. Hope on a train or a short flight, and visit museum, historical sites and what not. It’s probably the one thing I miss most about moving to Australia – it’s just so far away from everything!

That said, I think I’d also love not just where, bu...

Your Weekend Wind Down – A Dangerous Hobby

 

Leisure vehicle users were dying. They were going to sleep in their shiny ‘vans and just not waking up. Various theories were advanced for this phenomenon, including foul play by person or persons unknown, but nobody could actually put their finger on a cause. After some months of speculation. a government-sponsored study was set up. It discovered that people did indeed die in leisure vehicles far more frequently than was statistically explainable – even given the average age of the people...

The Thinking Quill

Dear Reader Who Writes,

You will recall from our previous acquaintance that I am Moonbeam Farquhar Metheringham IV author of the One Million Bestseller (one million in Amazon Rankings) epic of science fiction and fantasy excellence, ‘Fatswhistle and Buchtooth’. One’s chums tell one that they find the old moniker a bit of a mouthful and for some inexplicable reason few seem able to pronounce it without adding a silent smirk in the middle. Hence, one is usually bespoken of by one’s legions of a...

Your Friday Friend… Brhi Stokes

The Melee

By the time headed back home, the sun was hanging low in the sky and the streets were beginning to come alive.
Too alive, Ripley realised, rounding a corner and then stopping abruptly. A few metres ahead of him, in the centre of the street was a melee. Several creatures with elongated limbs, angular heads and a mottled mix of fur, skin and scales were on the attack. Without the pitch of night to hide their forms, Ripley could clearly see the deformities; the spines and horns and tuf...

A bite of… Brhi Stoke’s Ripley

Today we have the opportunity to cross-examine Ripley, hero of Caligation

Question 1: How would you describe your own character? And do you think we would like you if we met?

Describe myself? That’s a hard one, I guess I hadn’t really given it much thought. I suppose I’m fairly… relaxed? I guess that probably translates better to ‘boring’, though. Average guy, average day-to-day, average consumption of beer. The only interesting thing would be that I surf, but everyone here does. Does “wants...

Enmeshed

She lay at the bottom of the boat, wrapped in a piece of malodorous sacking, neither moving nor making a sound.
“Do she live?” one of the swarthy oarsmen asked of nobody in particular.
The oldest crewman spat into the black water of the harbour. “Course she lives, but she knows what us will do to her if’n she causes a ruckus.”
The youngest lad looked almost pleadingly at their unexpected cargo.
“We isn’t going to hurt her is we?”
“No. We ain’t. But them as we sells her to may not be so consid...

Don’t fear the reaper

Your Wednesday Writer…

A little taste of Sky Stone by Scarlett Van Dijk

I listened intently, mouth hanging open in astonishment. Nothing seemed real—this must be a dream. I decided to stick with that conclusion and took another sip of my tea. Aaron merely sat sipping his, nodding occasionally during Aiyanna’s story, as though this was common knowledge.
“A Sky Guardian,” Aaron finally whispered thoughtfully. “I didn’t think another would come to Tolla after Lae was killed.”
Despite the calming effect of the tea, I n...

A Bite of Skyla

We get to have a brief chat with Skyla, heroine of the Sky Stone series by Scarlett Van Dijk

 

Question 1: How do you handle the responsibility of being handed a great deal of power?

I’ll admit that at first I didn’t handle it well. After all, what can one girl do when told she’s supposed to kill the enemy king of a land she knew nothing about? But now I’ve kind of gotten used to my duty as a Sky Guardian, even if I’m not particularly happy about it. I just can’t look away from those that are...