Tales from FAR Manor

"Untergang der Titanic", by Willy Stöwer, from Wikimedia Commons September 11, 1931 There is a running joke about using a t...

This runs a bit longer than a flash should—just short of 1300 words—but it’s part of a larger work in progress (16K words and counting). Sti...

Hey look, a #FridayFlash! I woke up Tuesday morning with the phrase “stealth and high explosives” in my head, so here’s how two opposites wo...

This is set in the same world as The Last Lightkeeper … which could be Termag, if the Dawn Greeters’ creation myth is to be believed. It’s d...

With fridayflash.org winding down this week, I thought I’d write something about closure as well. It’s not nearly as fun as Chuck Allen’s Cl...

The conclusion to last week’s post … Matos stood quiet a long moment, then heaved a deep sigh. “No. But how…? We have children!” “Yo...

I have a two-parter this week. It’s a Termag story, from the distant past before the Makers departed for the City of Refuge. The line "...

This is one of those stories I’ve wanted to write for a long time, and finally managed it this week. Being Good Friday, I guess it’s the bes...

This is another one of the “young Bailar” stories, the next scene after The Voice of the Forest . The barge crew and porters laughed as ...

“Is all well, good scribe?” Breeze wrote on the chalkboard. Image source: openclipart.org My feet were freezing, and I hate for my fee...

Here’s a peek at one of Skyscraper City’s supervillains. If you haven’t been reading all along, don’t miss out on Blink: Superhero Summer Ca...

Image source: openclipart.org Old Kaine paused in his long shuffling up the sidewalk and leaned on his cane, looking over the two young...

Image source: openclipart.org “Hi, Allie,” Bob said into his cellphone, turning to shade himself and the phone from the summer sun. The ...

Earlier Swamp Witch stories… Past the Witching Hour The Swamp Witch and the Deacon Image source: openclipart.org Many of those w...

If you’ve been avoiding my post-launch giddiness… I can’t blame you. But Lost in Nightwalk is out, and I didn’t have a #FridayFlash put tog...

This one runs a little long, not quite 1300 words, so I hope you’ll forgive me. This is Bailar the Blue’s “origin story,” which takes place ...

Any resemblance to Sabrina Zbasnik’s Rejected Story is purely, uh… OK, let’s pull the pin and see what happens with this one. For other s...

Image source: openclipart.org Wilson woke up. Spiders. Everywhere. In his bedroom. The bugs had invaded his house lately, perhaps lo...

Image source: openclipart.org Vincent “Van” Hendricks stopped at the curb in front of the old mansion. “This is crazy,” he said, for the...