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Odd Prompts: Strange New World

Two things: my site was down for a few days, I am sorry for any inconvenience. Should be good now, but don’t hesitate to let me know if something isn’t right. The host I’m using until January has been starting to tinker with the backend. Looking for hosting… And likely moving a lot of the… Read More Odd Prompts: Strange New World

Odd Prompts: Running Into Time

This is a portion of what I wrote today, which was supposed to be a short vignette to bridge me between two projects and ballooned into over 3000 words of… something. Dunno what it is yet. You tell me! *** “Why did you say Dr. Yeager was wrong?” She asked, after they had circumnavigated the… Read More Odd Prompts: Running Into Time

Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink

“How was it?”  Having a seven-foot-tall octopoid hovering while you ate was a bit weird. Having him wringing a pair of tentacles while he watched you consume food he’d prepared was  a whole other level of strange. Steven didn’t think he’d ever get used to this. He put his spoon down, and contemplated his bowl… Read More Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink

New Release! Groundskeeper: My Ghoul

A brand new novella in the Groundskeeper Tales, out just in time for Halloween.  When better to read a light tale of ghosts, ghouls, haunted houses (or crypts) and follow the adventures of Chloe?  This time, she is going to need some help to solve the mysteries of Belleview, and find out just how far… Read More New Release! Groundskeeper: My Ghoul

Odd Prompts: Autumn’s Guardian

I’ve been struggling to find time for creativity these last few months. My mind seems to be filled with other stuff that pushes the urge to imagine right out of the way.  I thought I’d explore styles with this last week’s prompt. My prompt came from Becky Jones with “The Guardian was napping in the… Read More Odd Prompts: Autumn’s Guardian

Clothed in Mystery

Alma Boykin’s post over at the Mad Genius Club today got me thinking. So I wandered into my Midjourney art studio (heh, the discord server I use for this sort of thing) and poked the ai a little to see what I got. What I got was fun, because instead of using the costumes to… Read More Clothed in Mystery

N’Inktober 2023

And so it begins…  Another year of fun and drawing during the month of October.  

Groundskeeper Tale! Now out…

The second Groundskeeper tale, The Hoodoo that You Do, is now available as a standalone ebook with extended ending. When I wrote the original, for an anthology, I had a wordcount limit, so the ending wrapped up the major plotline, and that was all I had room for. Releasing it again gave me the room… Read More Groundskeeper Tale! Now out…

It’s Complicated

This bread started out with two ideas. Firstly, I had a couple of very ripe bananas and needed to use them up. Secondly, I had bought new yeast and wanted to test it. I buy yeast by the pound, and store most of it in the freezer, until it’s used up. Only… when we moved,… Read More It’s Complicated

Odd Prompts: Stylized Work

The prompt was ” There were rows and rows of monks standing, watching… It didn’t fit in any way into the WIP, so rather than starting something new, while I’m under a deadline, I decided I’d feed the prompt into Midjourney, and see how many ways I could stylize the results by tweaking the prompts.… Read More Odd Prompts: Stylized Work