Author: Ben
Caitlin knocked at the front door of the house then caught herself and used the key to open the door. Even after a year of being back in the home she grew up in, some habits died slowly. The twenty-two…
I don’t normally write anything for a writing prompt, but I’ve been horribly unproductive and torn between simultaneously wanting to “create” something yet also having nothing banging around in my head that wanted to turn into words. So … in…
Yeah, I know. I haven’t really added anything here because I’ve been in a serious lull / rut. As I’ve joked with a few people, after getting “Untimely Encounter in Kethyras” finished, my muse kinda checked out, saying “Welp, that’s…
It’s that time again! Actually, it’s already past that time, as pretty much all of the Spring 2023 anime series have already had three or four weeks to get episodes in. To look at it on the positive side, though,…
Yeah, really bad title pun. Couldn’t come up with anything good off the top of my head. Long story short – I am decently sure (like, 98+%) that, last night, I managed to fracture a toe on my left foot….
Helene Fabry, full Quadrimage, recently past her twenty-first birthday, allowed a smile to touch the corner of her lips. The hood of her cloak was pushed back, as the early morning winds of Autumn blew from Kethyras Harbor through the…
So, I’m currently in the process of (as the header advertised) doing a “thing”. Yeah, yeah. “What the hell is this ‘thing’ you are doing?” This one needs a little bit of backstory (as, it seems, do most of the…
[As promised … the next of what I am now calling the “Kethyras” stories. Enjoy!] [Updated Apr. 12, 2023: Reworked to somewhat “de-power” Helene. First version, she was, realistically, just too OP. See Superman Conundrum for more detail.] [Minor update…
Whoops? … I have temporarily hidden the introduction story for Helene Fabry (the other main character in my Kethyras stories) because I realized — in the first pairing story — I had made a fatal flaw, as the author /…
Since I’d first come up with the idea of having a “Gray Mouser” to Nonna‘s “Fafhrd”, and had decided her pairing character was to be a magic-user of some sort, I’ve had the scene where the two first meet absolutely…
“What an odd title…” is something I’m sure you’re thinking when you see this one. “What tf is ‘Kethyras’?” Well, dear readers, let me share with you, the meaning of this one. But first, an image. “Oh… it’s a ……
As I described as part of the original “Nonna” story, that was a written back-story for a new character I “rolled up” to play with a D&D group. After a few sessions, though, Things Happened™ (mostly real-life stuff intervening on…
