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Story for the Day: The Clan Fight -- Part 3

We're going to be bringing out a new Damson's Distress novella next month for all our readers.
If you've enjoyed the series, contribute a few dollars to our new campaign HERE on Patreon and receive the Clan Fight novella today, as well all subsequent novellas for free. And now, for the second half of the fight between Gaumhin and Vyrdin:


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A word on #death

There comes a point in one's life where the people whom we grew up admiring begin to die, leaving a great chasm in the world. This is awful enough to deal with without having anything so annoying as feelings getting in the way of personal equanimity. 

And then, possibly even more horribly, there comes a time in one's life when the people whom we grew up with or the people who are in our same age group begin to die. I have had the disagreeable business of having to watch colleagues only a...

Story for the Day: The Clan Fight -- Part 2

Clan fights over family pride are all very well, but it's all fun and games until someone breaks their own shoulder in an effort to win -- at least that is how the saying goes amongst Vyrdin's camp.


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Story for the Day: A Clan Fight

Clan velitations, or clan wars as Paudrig fondly calls them, are a tradition in Westren. While they are not as common now as they were during King Allun or even King Breian's time, they still have their uses when someone wants to defend their family's honour or earn the right to marry a woman from another clan-- or in Gaumhin's case, to defend his husband's right to lend books to the king.


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Happy #Easter: a #free novella!

Happy Easter! In Gallei, it is the holiday of Uscentis, the day that honours Uscen's return to his children, commemorated with public dances, music, and more chocolate than is legal in that country. As a thank you to our readers, we are making this month's novella free, courtesy of our supporters on Patreon.

If you enjoy the novella, join our Patreon subscription for as little as 2$, and get a new novella every month.
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Story for the Day: Aging

Aging is not something I think terribly much about. It is rather a suggestion than a necessity . To some, it is only an annoyance, and to others, an outright horror.


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Story for the day: The First in the Series -- Part 5

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Papercrane Books Podcast - Q&A

In this month's podcast, we answer all the questions we've received in the last few months, including:  -Can Alasdair run for President? -Who would win in a chocolate war between Bartleby and Rautu? -How do you pronounce all the names in Frewyn?-Who would play Bartleby in a film? And many more. Listen to the Q&A session on our Patreon page HERE.   

Story for the Day: The First in the Series -- Part 4

There is no greater defender of the realm than Captain Gaumhin. There is also no greater husband.

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Story for the Day: The First in the Series -- Part 3

Never try to hide anything from an inquisitor; the more one tries to be furtive, the more one fails, and fails miserably. 


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