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Snippet the Last, DEADLIME.

Actually, writing a ‘mere’ three thousand words had its points. Less BS, more getting to the action. Will contemplate. I got more stories to tell of these two if you like them.

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Moving through woods that used to be an Old American ‘suburb’ was always odd. After hundreds of years, a lot of roads were inexplicably still there. The ones that weren’t left behind grassy paths that were only now starting to sprout trees. The path they were on was one of the latter, and the only thing that bothered the two men was the way it left them with slight rises on either side.

Both men instinctively knew how the way to track monsters was to follow your nose. There was just something about the way unnatural creatures smelled that couldn’t be scoured away, or covered up. And everybody knew the Universal Dominion to (and too close to) the west — easily the biggest monster-maker on the continent — didn’t even try to get rid of the smell. They liked it when people got a whiff of evil on the breeze. That made regular folks afraid, and fear was one of the Dominion’s best tools.

Which was one reason why Oxamn and Nat went after the hodag without really even thinking about it. Monster-killing was what fighters did. Besides, if the damn thing were breeding spawn it’d just make sense to kill it now, before the problem got too big for two swordsmen.

That was one hell of a ballgame.

The Mets-Braves game got pretty damned real in the last two innings. Dare I even say…

Shermanesque 8th inning for the Mets.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 30, 2024

Line score doesn't even tell half the story of how nuts this has been pic.twitter.com/e4NouZhGsz

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 30, 2024

…Mind you, Atlanta’s gonna come out for the second round seven feet tall, and farting fire.

The Intriguing NOSFERATU trailer.

It’s… I’m not entirely sure I want to take my kid to see NOSFERATU. It might be a touch weird for him to watch it with his dad. It’s got a complicated vibe about sexuality, death, and desire going on there.

But we might go see it at different times.

A good month for KENP!

So, I busted through getting 10K pages of my stuff read on KENP this year (essentially, Kindle Unlimited):

…and I had this entire, kind of cranky, wall of text talking about this, and what it means for the industry, and whether KENP is a trap, and a bunch of other stuff I associate with aching eyes. Honestly, though? I should be focusing on the fact that all of this means a bunch of people read about twenty-one of my books for the first time this month.

Which is the goal. And I should be thankful for it. So, I am. Thanks for reading!

Moe Lane

I’m calling this at 5:30.

You may deduce from that just how successful this weekend was from a book-selling point of view. If you have any friends that are not yet awakened to the glory that are my books, now would be an excellent time to tell them about them.

Moe Lane

PS: I’ll be fine. It was just a long two days, and not really great ones.

Patreon Microfiction: Rationalization.

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Yeah, ‘Rationalization’ works as a title on several levels. You gotta feel at least a little bad for that entity, though. The situation is obviously not optimal, only nobody involved and making dumb decisions particularly wants it fixed. They just want somebody to blame. We’ve all been there.

‘Lullabye.’

Good night.

Lullabye, Jewel

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Book of the Week: The Dweller in Drury Lane.

I haven’t read Paul Leone’s The Dweller in Drury Lane yet, sorry. This is my reminder to read the book, because I am extremely tired right now and I need to get some sleep. I don’t want to forget to read it for a couple of months.

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I am at Fright Reads!

Feel free to stop on by!

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— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) September 28, 2024

Otherwise, buy my books anonymously!

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‘Song of the Dispossessed.’

In what I can only describe as a moment of complicated irony, I am reasonably sure that the singer of this song ended up as a landed baron in SM Stirling’s Emberverse series*.

Song of the Dispossessed, Joe Bethancourt

*It’s very complicated irony. Spoilers, for those who don’t know the series: in that series, Portland, Oregon was taken over after the Change (an event which pretty much magically eliminated high-energy chemistry) by a heavily mutated version of the SCA (known as the Portland Protective Association, or PPA).

One level of irony is that at first it would have been worth Bethancourt’s life, new-minted high noble or not, to perform that song in front of the Lord Protector of Portland, as the fellow was a bloody-handed tyrant with a hardcore medieval fetish, and a burning urge to conquer everything that he saw.Another level of irony is that the aforementioned Lord Protector made the mistake of having a Norman medieval fetish, which is precisely the wrong societal model to adopt if you want to avoid having independent-minded landed barons. In fact, the expectations of the collected baronage got the Lord Protector killed in the end.And the supreme level of irony was that, by the time of Bethancourt’s death in that series, the PPA was populated and largely ruled by people who would have scratched their heads over why this song would ever had been considered at all controversial. Of course nobles were supposed to rule in a conscientious and honorable manner. Everybody knew that.

So I guess Joe Bethancourt won that argument in the end, after all.

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