Tales from FAR Manor

When John Wiswell did this with his own world last year, I realized I actually had a theme that could generate 26 posts! This is going to be...

After reading some interesting posts about, shall we say, certain events that took place in original fairy tales , I had to write this one. ...

The Boy finally got his car working. It wasn’t long before he “found” a job and a place to live near his girlfriend’s place in Newnan. But t...

Welcome to my world. If it feels lived in, comfortable, it may be because I’ve developed it on and off since 1980 or so. This is Termag. A...

Thursday morning dawned bright and interesting. The Boy took Mason down to Newnan, for an overnight with his fiancé's family. She (haven...

This wasn’t one of Mason’s ideas, but it does continue the adventures of the exterminator and his enthusiastic sidekick. For more of these t...

I’ve wanted to write this for a long time… Image source: Wikimedia Commons Melvin Basgump opened his eyes to find himself staring a...

Instead of writing wibbles today, I joined a blog hop!  +Patricia Lynne  invited me, and I’ll talk a little about her (or repeat what she wa...

Winter #3 brought snow and a little ice to FAR Manor, and a recurrence of the winter congestion that lingers for weeks. About the time the s...

Smashwords has declared it to be Read an eBook Week , and two of my books are in the promo: Xenocide — FREE with coupon code RW100 T...

It was an offhand comment from Maria Lima that drove me to write this… Pastor Zachariah Jones finished his morning prayers and arose, ...

Be easy on me, this is my first attempt at steampunk. Image source: openclipart.org Jacob looked up, hands still in the box. “You ov...

It is my great pleasure to, once again, have Helen Howell here to talk about her new novella! Easy one first: tell us a little about Min...

We’ve met Hattie before, in Past the Witching Hour . The two of us have some plans for more, but at our own pace. “Knitting’s good for...

Welcome, Indie Lifers, to the free-range insane asylum! Don’t forget to hit the linky at the end, and see what other indies have to say ab...

While Daughter Dearest was still in college, the wife got a mini-van and gave her the blue Civic to drive back and forth to Waleska. It was ...

Previous:  Meet Blink  |  Part 1  |  Part 2  | Part 3 Last week, while Captain Heroic created a diversion, Blink popped into the Blackuras...

With the weekend came February, and with February came time to re-open that first draft of Into the Icebound  that had been waiting patien...

Yesterday dawned bright and sunny, and warmed up rapidly. The snow began retreating right away. But I could not tarry to enjoy the dawning o...

Previous: Meet Blink  | Part 1 | Part 2 In last week’s episode, Blink met up with the retired Captain Heroic, and convinced him to help s...