Brian N. Tissot's Blog
August 7, 2025
Shadow & Gold: The Way of Kings
The Way of Kings is an allegorical tale of a ruler torn between light and shadow, mirroring humanity’s struggle with power, pride, and purpose.
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May 16, 2025
The Enchanting Tale of the Abalone Song
“The Abalone Song” is a folk ballad that evokes a time when life was simple, the sea was sacred, and poets gathered to sing by firelight. Inspired by real coastal traditions, the story follows a group of bohemian artists as they harvest, cook, and celebrate the ocean’s gifts through laughter, ritual, and song.
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April 26, 2025
Thalassara: the Underwater City and the Stairway to Heaven
Kaiya drifted in her sub, staring at the shattered wreck of her father’s fighter plane on the seafloor. Salt blurred with tears. This was his grave. This was her inheritance. Above her, Thalassara floated — not heaven, not escape — just the last fragile shelter in a broken, drowning world
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February 3, 2025
Horse Latitudes: The Legend of Bravío
This cinematic short explores the harrowing journey of horses transported across the Atlantic during the Age of Exploration. From his origins in the wild Ebro River valley, the story follows the fate of the wild stallion Bravío from his brutal capture to confinement in the dark, swaying holds of Spanish galleons before they are stranded in the dead calm of the Horse Latitudes.
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January 13, 2025
Wave Riders of the Galaxy
The Voyager The Starlight Voyager hummed as it cut through the endless black of space. Its sleek hull shimmered under the light of distant stars, its powerful engines off, a silver solar sail pulling them towards their destination. Inside, the crew of stood at the observation deck, their faces illuminated by the soft glow of […]
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August 31, 2024
Mermaid Planet: Lirael’s Last Song
The End of Tethys The humans came to Tethys with hearts full of desperation and minds driven by need. Earth was dying—its forests withering, its oceans poisoned, its skies choked with smoke. Humanity had no choice but to look beyond their own ruined world for salvation. Tethys, an ocean planet shimmering like a sapphire in […]
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May 19, 2021
Old before my time, and blessed
One of the things I like least about being very old is the unreliability of my energy. Up one day, down the next, bleh! Working at poetry or a story is, always has been, the job I want to be doing, the work that keeps me steady and content. But too often there just isn’t…
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October 12, 2020
Colossus: The Monster 200 ft. Waves of Thalassa
Colossus. If you're a surfer the name will terrify you. Although it is a fictional surf break on a fictional planet in my book Songs of Thalassa, the giant of all monster breaks. The largest wave in the galaxy. Cortes Bank and Nazaré all in one.
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October 5, 2020
What Lies Beneath: the mutant slab of Shipstern Bluff
For a long time is was a myth. Both a dream and a nightmare, A perfect mutant slab far off the trail. A slab of epic proportions. It's Teahupoʻo, arguably the gnarliest wave in the world, on steroids. Welcome to Shippies.
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September 9, 2020
Armageddon
The orange-red sun glows in the crimson fog. Ash rains down, the smell of smoke on the air. The streets are sparse, only a few walking cautiously with black face masks, looking sinister. The setting for a futuristic dystopian scientific fiction novel? Unfortunately no, it's now.The future of our nightmares is with us. Armageddon? Not yet, this is the beginning
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