Reading Time: 6 Mins Last month I stumbled on a treasure trove of old sci-fi books I had somehow inherited from my childhood home. I have a stack of new books on my bedside table waiting to be read but two of these newfound treasures were immediately placed at the top of the pile. I…
Month: June 2022
Beginnings – VSS Weekly 9 (400 words)
Reading Time: 3 mins “What do you say, can you make one just like it?” I needed this to work and Eddie was my last resort. Potions were more his thing, though everyone knew he was a charmer on the side, if you had the money. Hell, for the right price he’d even dabble in…
Weekday Woolgathering – 6/23/22
Reading Time: 3 Mins Subconscious thoughts have been bubbling to the surface today and it’s a strange feeling to stitch them together to try to get a peek inside your own mind. I often choose book quotes and songs to post about that shine a light on how I’m feeling and today they all fell…
Weekday Woolgathering – 6/20/22
Reading Time: 6 Mins You see, I have these thoughts. Creative thoughts. Ideas. Books, stories, characters, all swirling around in competition for space on the blank page in front of me whenever I make the time to sit down and write. Then there are the things that happen to me in real life; those moments…
Review: The Magicians
Reading Time: 2 Mins. I was describing the flavour notes of my current work in progress and this book was mentioned as being in a similar vein. Interested in reading a comp title to what I’m currently working on, I picked it up and was quickly engrossed and absorbed into this new world I did…
Evolved – VSS Weekly 8 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins. The panic in her eyes was so powerful it even made me hold my breath, waiting for what would come next. She stood still as stone. She looked down at the red on her hands, dripping onto her white tennis shoes. This was an unforeseen response to the new code. Not…