Usagi Yojimbo #141 — Preview The latest issue of Usagi Yojimbo (#141) marks the 200th appearance of the beloved rabbit samurai in his own title by renowned writer and artist Stan Sakai. This special occasion marks a commemorative, stand-alone story geared towards both old and new readers. At the outset, we find a figure [...]
Theodore Parker once talked about the books that we read and how important they can be to us. The books that help you most are those which make you think the most…A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deeply freighted with truth and beauty. Isn’t that an awesome [...]
The following is a piece of flash fiction I wrote for this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge over at Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds. The challenge is to create a new take on the apocalypse in 1,000 words or less. Here is my entry: — Karen Graves was cleaning up after breakfast on a Thursday morning [...]
Full disclosure…putting it all out on front street…I’m not a high fantasy reader. Truth be told, I’m the kind who reads pulp sci-fi with reckless abandon and shameless bravado. At any given time you can spot yours truly with some science-fiction book that has some featureless spaceship/spaceman/spacedinosaur on the cover and a title with too [...]
Every city of a decent size has a place or two like this café, places where the wise and the weary, the hunted and the haunted, the reckless and the careless join in a common attempt to convince each other and themselves that they make a difference. These places are the safety valves of aggression [...]
Codex Pictures released the first full length CGI film for Warhammer 40K just this last December. Some minor production hiccups delayed most international shipping to those of us fanboys here in the States. But I can say that for this 40K-Space Marine Playing-Movie Loving- enthusiast the wait was well worth it. One of the things [...]
Camryn trudged into the filthy camp of the transient barbarian tribe. The nomadic clan lived on the rocky and inhospitable plains of Tor’Maltea. The squat mud and hide lean-to, glistened in the pouring rain. Small campfires burned weakly under the makeshift shelters, barely warming the filthy faces that were gathered around them. It was almost [...]
It had been seven bloody days since Chieftain Keagan and the war band of Gradith Azul had ridden to battle. Aria sat in the Great Hall receiving messages from the members of the Masked Riderum. The shadow force had been entrusted with the task of keeping the city-fort abreast of battlefield conditions. The battle had [...]
The following is a short story I wrote for this week’s Flash Fiction Friday. Enjoy. — Mama said I was gonna be somethin’ one day. It was just a bullshit deathbed guilt trip, but she said it. She was layin’ there in the bed, starin’ off into space, lookin’ for her man Jesus to show [...]
