On New Year's Eve 2000, the stroke of midnight returned magic, both light and dark, to the world.
Discordia Jones missed it.
Struck down at that same instant like a cut-rate Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty mash up, she awakened three years later to a far stranger life, and saddled with psychic abilities.
Working as a private investigator for Arcane Solutions only brings on more strangeness.
At least there aren't talking mice...
Saturday, July 4, 2015
FULL - LENGTH RIFFTASTIC REVIEWS (as if my opinion mattered...)
POINT OF TERROR
THEY CALL ME MACHO WOMAN
BASKET CASE
THE BABY
TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD
YELLOWBRICKROAD
THE PIT (1981)
RETURN OF THE BLIND DEAD
THE GHOST GALLEON
THE DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE
V/H/S and V/H/S 2
PIECES
NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS
CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS
BLOOD MANIA
THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE
ABSENTIA
GARGOYLES
SATAN'S SLAVE
DEVIL DOG: HOUND OF HELL
MESSIAH OF EVIL
AMERICAN MARY
STAR CRYSTAL
Raw Force
Neon Maniacs
Recommended Double Features
YELLOWBRICK ROAD and ABSENTIA
Bad gaming, worse editing - THE BINDER OF SHAME
The RPG.net Rants
Uncensored, Unforgettable and Uncorrected
Click here to download the Ebook version of THE RPG.NET RANTS
Click here to download the Ebook version of THE RPG.NET RANTS
2002 was the year I first started to post stories for the amusement of others. (Aside from that shameful X-FILES fan fiction of course.) I began with these gaming anecdotes that I shared on the forums of RPG.net, a relatively safe haven for me at the time. They were strange little tales told in a kind of screenplay format that I used when I sketched out story dialogue.
The first one was pretty simple but as they went on they became more and more grandiose but they were raw and fun little bits of humor. I never bothered to proofread the things or set up any real kind of coherence or internal continuity- although snippets of these tales do show up in PRICE BEAKS AND HEARTACHES.
I'm posting them to the blog so I can add them to version of THE BINDER OF SHAME I keep here. I will do the first two today and then set up one a week until they're all there.
I've moved on a lot since I first created them but many of the folks that first came to know me through them are still reading my work now and they still keep finding new readers all the time.
If you have no idea what I am talking about prepare to be amazed, amused and offended.
And be warned these stories appear exactly as I did when I posted them on the forums. I haven't tried to edit them for fear of diluting their raw power.
Also I'm pretty damn lazy...
RPG.NET rant #3 A Night At The Inn, A Day At The Racists
RPG.NET rant #4 The God Trip
RPG.NET rant #5 Achy Breaky Mythos
RPG.NET rant #6 Monty Python Mishaps In The Deepest Pit Of Homebrew Hell
RPG.NET rant #4 The God Trip
RPG.NET rant #5 Achy Breaky Mythos
RPG.NET rant #6 Monty Python Mishaps In The Deepest Pit Of Homebrew Hell
RPG.NET rant #7 Kobayashi Maru With Random Violence and Supermodels
RPG.NET rant #8 What Do You Mean You Lost My Wife's Kidney?
RPG.NET rant #9 Never Leave Your Nads Behind
RPG.NET rant #10 Death By Thumbs
RPG.NET rant #11 Night Of The Caped Cadavers
RPG.NET rant #12 Cannibals, Rednecks And Transgendered Astronauts
RPG.NET rant #13 Trapped In Jedi Academy
RPG.NET rant #14 Reservoir Torgs
RPG.NET rant #15 The Wrong Room In Ryleh
RPG.NET rant #16 The Great Gamma World Death March
RPG.NET rant #17 The Bad Rifts Project
RPG.NET rant #18 The D&D Session That Mostly Wasn't
RPG.NET rant #19 The Prequel Trilogy I: The Creep On The Boarderlands
RPG.NET rant #20 The Prequel Trilogy II: The Dead Guy Gets The Pizzas
RPG.NET rant #21 The Prequel Trilogy III: All Hands On Dec
RPG.NET rant #22 The Last Straw Trilogy Part One: Warhammer The Spoilers Generation
RPG.NET rant #22 The Last Straw Trilogy Part Two: Talisman- This Time Its Personal
RPG.NET rant #23 The Last Straw Trilogy Part Three: Once More With Filking
Vampire The Mass Kid Raid: An RPG.NET Rant postscript
RPG.NET rant #8 What Do You Mean You Lost My Wife's Kidney?
RPG.NET rant #9 Never Leave Your Nads Behind
RPG.NET rant #10 Death By Thumbs
RPG.NET rant #11 Night Of The Caped Cadavers
RPG.NET rant #12 Cannibals, Rednecks And Transgendered Astronauts
RPG.NET rant #13 Trapped In Jedi Academy
RPG.NET rant #14 Reservoir Torgs
RPG.NET rant #15 The Wrong Room In Ryleh
RPG.NET rant #16 The Great Gamma World Death March
RPG.NET rant #17 The Bad Rifts Project
RPG.NET rant #18 The D&D Session That Mostly Wasn't
RPG.NET rant #19 The Prequel Trilogy I: The Creep On The Boarderlands
RPG.NET rant #20 The Prequel Trilogy II: The Dead Guy Gets The Pizzas
RPG.NET rant #21 The Prequel Trilogy III: All Hands On Dec
RPG.NET rant #22 The Last Straw Trilogy Part One: Warhammer The Spoilers Generation
RPG.NET rant #22 The Last Straw Trilogy Part Two: Talisman- This Time Its Personal
RPG.NET rant #23 The Last Straw Trilogy Part Three: Once More With Filking
Vampire The Mass Kid Raid: An RPG.NET Rant postscript
The Binder of Shame
The Second Edition
THE GODS AND MONARCHS TRILOGY - my novels horror, obsession, redemption and betrayal
Volume One
IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
a tale of horror and obsession
To all outward appearances John Sig is just an old man living a quietly in an empty old house. His one pleasure is when he heads down to the local diner and visits with his favorite waitress Angie. When Angie disappears, John sets out to find her. For an ordinary old man that might seem like a foolish idea but John Sig isn’t human, he’s a monster living in the shadow of a nightmare thirty -five years old.
Epilogue
Prologue
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Two
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Three
part one
part two
part three
First Interlude
Chapter Four
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Five
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Six
Chapter Twelve
part one
part two
part three
Fourth Interlude
Chapter Thirteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Fourteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Fifteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Seventeen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Eighteen
part one
part two
part three
Fifth Interlude
Chapter Nineteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-one
part one
part two
part three
Sixth Interlude
Chapter Twenty-two
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Three
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Four
part one
part two
part three
Seventh Interlude
Chapter Twenty-Five
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Six
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Two
part one
part two
part three
Ninth Interlude
Chapter Thirty-Three
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Four
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Epilogue
Volume Two
“What if you could do anything you wanted?”
Sixteen year-old Tristam Bloom is having the worst year of his life. He’s on probation, he’s the laughingstock of the school and his girlfriend wants nothing to do with him. To top it all off he now has to eat lunch with the nerdy kids he spent all of last year tormenting.
“What if no one could stop you?”
But Tristam has a secret; a doorway has opened in his mind allowing him access to unimaginable secrets and impossible worlds. Every night the power grows stronger and soon he finds that he can devour ghosts and turn his adversaries own minds against them.
“What would you do? What wouldn’t you do?”
With a power like his Tristam finds that revenge comes easily but he doesn’t realize that now that just as he’s glimpsed the shadowy world existing alongside our own, the denizens of that world have seen him. Tristam finds himself trapped in the wake of a nightmare that has been waiting thirty-five years for an opportunity to rise.
BOOK ONE
A Soul In Tension
Chapter Onepart one
part two
part three
Chapter Two
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Three
part one
part two
part three
First Interlude
Chapter Four
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Five
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Six
part one
part two
part three
Second Interlude
Chapter Seven
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Nine
part one
part two
part three
part two
part threepart two
part three
Second Interlude
Chapter Seven
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Nine
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Eleven
part onepart two
Chapter Twelve
part one
part two
part three
Fourth Interlude
Chapter Thirteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Fourteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Fifteen
part one
part two
part three
BOOK TWO
The Son And The Heir
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Eighteen
part one
part two
part three
Fifth Interlude
Chapter Nineteen
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-one
part one
part two
part three
Sixth Interlude
Chapter Twenty-two
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Three
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Four
part one
part two
part three
Seventh Interlude
Chapter Twenty-Five
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Six
part one
part two
part three
BOOK THREE
Full Of Broken Thoughts
Chapter Twenty-Seven
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Nine
part one
part two
part three
Eighth Interlude
Chapter Thirty
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-One
part one
part two
part three
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Twenty-Nine
part one
part two
part three
Eighth Interlude
Chapter Thirty
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-One
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Two
part one
part two
part three
Ninth Interlude
Chapter Thirty-Three
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Four
part one
part two
part three
BOOK FOUR
Load Up On Guns And Bring Your Friends
Chapter Thirty-Five
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty- Six
part one
part two
part three
Tenth Interlude
Chapter Thirty-Seven
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Nine
part one
part two
part three
Eleventh Interlude
Chapter Forty
part one
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty- Six
part one
part two
part three
Tenth Interlude
Chapter Thirty-Seven
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Eight
part one
part two
part three
Chapter Thirty-Nine
part one
part two
part three
Eleventh Interlude
Chapter Forty
part one
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Epilogue
Volume Three
IN THE SHADOW OF HIS NEMESIS
a tale of horror and betrayal
"In the end love makes monsters of us all."
"In the end love makes monsters of us all."
Isobel Talbot's life was a monotony, even her heartbreaks were predictable; but a chance encounter leaves her running for her life from the most terrible and impossible things.
And worse yet, she's fallen in love.
BOOK ONE: EXILES FROM THE ORDINARY WORLD
BOOK TWO: THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT
BOOK THREE: OCCUPIED TERRITORY
BOOK FOUR: THE FACE OF SANCTUARY
BOOK FIVE: GODS AND MONARCHS
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