Tales from FAR Manor

Part 1 Synopsis: After a storm kills his wife and daughter, Johnny Qullio leaves his village to ask the gods on Mount Evergreen why they t...

Disclaimers: I got this book when it was offered for free back in November. An earlier copy of this review appears under my real name in the...

It’s not only Mrs. Fetched’s birthday, it’s also Towel Day ! You know what that means: today, she’s 42 again! She was supposed to get dinner...

Part 1 Synopsis: After a storm kills his wife and daughter, Johnny Qullio begins his journey to Mount Evergreen, home of the gods in the f...

Based on a writing prompt by Maria Kelly . What would come of a god bringing three mad scientists from the far future? Chimera, Inc. A y...

I haven’t received one of these award things in a while, but Angela Kulig broke the drought. Thanks much, Angela! Angela’s one of the bumpe...

Pull up a chair, pass the bottle around, it’s chit-chat time! A minor milestone, but a milestone all the same: 50 followers ! What a nice ...

Part 1 Synopsis: After a storm kills his wife and daughter, Johnny Qullio vows to journey to Mount Evergreen, home of the gods in the faraw...

Wow, six years! Some days it doesn’t seem that long, other times it seems almost an eternity. A lot has happened since then: The Boy hasn’...

Friday the 13 th was pretty long, what with Blogger “routine maintenance” turning into an brownout lasting over 36 hours. All the posts wer...

Thanks to a major Blogger outage — first one in years — I wasn’t able to post this here yesterday. Hope it’s worth the wait! Turn Back T...

Part 1 The sharp-eyed among you will notice the title has changed. I wasn’t pleased with the original title, and the new and improved titl...

I was amazingly allowed all day yesterday to deal with what I wanted to deal with, and I decided this would be a good time to tackle the pat...

I was MIA as far as the computer was concerned last night, so I’ll change tackle my briefs this evening. As always, let’s welcome the newes...

I started this story several years ago, left it incomplete then came back and finished it last year. It has sat for lack of a venue — White ...

Angela Perry has a little writing contest going: write a flash piece using the prompt “Immortal.” Here’s my shot at it. Immortal Curse ...

You might think that being in my 50s, I’d be one of those “I love the look/feel/smell of paper” people (really? smell? really??? ), but I’ve...

One of the cool parts of serializing a novel on one's blog is being able to post deleted and alternate scenes. I had several of those fo...

Our tax refund was pretty large… and so begins a new project at FAR Manor. Like many projects, this is one I had in mind for a good long whi...

I know this kind of story has been done… dare I say, done to death? But I liked it anyway. It’s pretty short — less than 300 words — but a s...