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February 12, 2020
The Big Waste Book Review
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The Big Waste
Author: C.W. Ashley
Release Date: Nov. 11, 2019
Premise: When an accomplished destruction derby driver decides to take a seemingly simple delivery job outside the citadel for a little adventure, he learns very quickly why the first day in the Big Waste can often become your last.
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Upon finishing The Big Waste, one may wonder why this sci-fi actioner wasn’t titled The Big Chase; as C.W. Ashley’s debut novel starts with a...
February 11, 2020
Everything Breaks
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Doomed; six letters to form the perfect word to describe our future.
When I think back on how it all started, I almost feel like laughing.
Almost.
“Unexplainable accident in Chinese school”
“Hundreds of chairs spontaneously break into pieces at the same time”
I mean… what!? How could we not laugh? The whole thing seemed like something out of News of the World. Besides, none of those kids got seriously hurt, so everyone figured Ok weird, but alright.
A week later, the second event happened in...
February 9, 2020
How a Reddit Post Led me to Write a Novel… that Failed
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Fun fact: by the time you finish reading this paragraph, half a dozen aspiring writers from all over the world will have already google searched “How to write a book?”, or some variation of that, which will get you around five billion results; many filled with terms likesimple steps, bestseller, self-publish,and that terrible word we all like to hear;easy.
This article is not about that. I won’t tell you how to write a book or how to self-publish it; you can search that online. I won’t...
January 17, 2020
Wolfstonecraft – Chapter 01
This is a Work in progress. All Rights Reserved, 2020
CHAPTER 01
A LAND BEYOND THE FOREST
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN’S JOURNAL
“Nov. 8, 1847 – Bistrita
Arrived in town yesterday evening… Finally!
The journey took longer than expected. I left Geneva twenty-three days ago, arriving in Zurich three days later and Vienna after one week; it took us three more days to reach Buda (the Hungarian city west of the Danube) and another nine to arrive here. Apparently, the further east you go the worst the...
July 19, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #9: Ocean Leviathan
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Ocean Leviathan
Natural realm form type: visible, shape-shifting
Type of Threat: sea stranding, death,
The Ocean Leviathan is an entity that manifests on the oceans of the world every couple of decades, created by high entities of the sea as revenge to mankind for invading and polluting the oceans.
The Leviathan is known to be able to sink boats, ships, cruisers, submarines, and any other vessel it encounters. The creature can also change sizes depending of what type of sea vehicle is trying...
July 15, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #8: Diurnos
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Diurnos
Natural realm form type: visible
Type of Threat: death
Diurnos are humanoid bipedal creatures, found in remote areas of Central America and some parts of Asia which actively hunt and feed on any creature they come across. Not to be confused with the Wendigo, or the fictional “chupacabra”.
They beings hunt almost exclusively during the day; hence the name. Diurnos are recognizable by their slender body, light skin, milk white eyes, long arms and claws, and a bite powerful enough to c...
July 12, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #7: The Conniver
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The Conniver
Natural realm form type: shape-shifting
Type of Threat: death
Every year, all over the world, over 1.2 million people die in car crashes and accidents, with 10% of those being cause by The Conniver; an entity that enjoys leading people to their death by the use of various deceptions & road distractions.
The being has the ability to make drivers hallucinate things that aren’t really there, causing them to crash their cars. It usually targets late night highway drivers who are tir...
July 10, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #6: The Crafty
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The Crafty
Natural realm form type: unknown
Type of Threat: physical damage
The Crafty is an entity of unknown appearance, which can be either inoffensive or extremely dangerous, depending on your behavior.
The being likes to enter people’s houses during the night, usually after midnight, to move, change and hide objects in their homes. There’s no malicious intention behind this, other than to play and confuse people.
Nevertheless, when someone hears the Crafty and searches for it, the creat...
July 9, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry #5: Bluwenwulf
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Bluwenwulf
Natural realm form type: visible
Type of Threat: lycanthropy
Bluwenwulf is the name given to a powerful entity that’s older than earth itself and the direct root of werewolves.
This being takes the form of a wolf, twice the size of any of its earthly counterparts, with blue-light fur, and pitch black eyes. The Bluwenwulf is said to be indestructible, incredibly fast, perceptive, and capable of commanding others wolves at will. Its purpose in the natural realm is to spread the curs...
July 8, 2019
Dark-Obscure Collection Entry # 4: The Nesuferitu
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The Nesuferitu
Natural realm form type: visible
Type of Threat: physical damage, death
The Nesuferitu is the name giving to a species of man-bat creatures that populate remote rural areas of Eastern Europe, and some parts of North & South America.
These monstrous entities are believed to be the basis for vampire mythos. Whether they are capable of living forever is a matter of much debate, but what it’s known about them is that they are eight feet tall, have pure white skin, yellow eyes that...
