Tales from FAR Manor

Monday night, I saw this tweet: Being the diplomatic soul that I am, I responded “I call BS” before even reading the article. Then, ...

It’s a busy time at the end of November. Baking bread, turkeys, beans… and books? Yup. Angela Kulig has at long last released Book 2 of th...

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 ...

The story is with the editor now, and I don’t have an exact publication date set just yet, but I’m still hoping to launch by month’s end. He...

Scott Whitmore’s new Military/Sci-Fi novella, Green Zulu Five One (and other stories from the Vyptellian War) , is out! It could use a littl...

The last few days have been the good part of November—sunny, cool, perfect for getting outside and doing stuff. Sunday afternoon, I hunted...

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...

Source: openclipart.org From Wikipedia: “ Escapist fiction is fiction which provides a psychological escape from thoughts of everyday l...

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

I always feel like somebody's watching me (And I have no privacy) —Rockwell I had a couple of things to share this week—an interview...

Meet Amelia, in the swing next to Mason. She refers to him as “my boyfriend.” Just a-swangin' This is a church thing. They sit to...

The Boy closed on a house on September 15th. Over the weekend, we took a truckload (plus half a vanload) of stuff down to him. He and his br...

Despite the goofy picture, this is one of the toughest kind of posts to write about. So it seems that Lobster, a former inmate at FAR Mano...

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

On Monday, we signed out a paddleboat and took a little tour around the lake: Faster, Granddad! There's a beach area on down a wa...

The knock sounded urgent. Farl forced himself upright, knees popping. He shuffled to the door, trying to tame his unruly tufts of white ha...

I thought I didn’t sleep well last night, but I apparently slept right through a pretty heavy thunderstorm. It was rumbling through the eve...

I finally updated the progress bar(s) over the weekend. Beyond the Sea of Storms  is the working title for the sixth Accidental Sorcerers ...

I haven’t blogged about it much, but  +E.J Hobbs  had been living at FAR Manor for quite a while, helping out where he could and mostly stay...

Saturday was the big day, and nobody ran off at the last second (although one of the bridesmaids went missing for a while). I ’d have been h...