The Wyrmtongue Chronicles (Fantasy Prologue Challenge)

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My short story has been published on Vocal for their $10,000 challenge (there’s a $5000 second place prize too, so it’s not chump change). Even if it doesn’t win, I think it is a pretty solid story. Let me know what you think in the comments here, or in the comments on Vocal, if the site allows you to do so without being a member. Not sure how that works.

Every entry has to begin with the exact same line: “There weren’t always dragons in the Valley.” So you end up with hundreds and hundreds of different stories that go all kinds of directions. The second criteria is to write a story as an introduction to a novel that doesn’t exist yet. Which is harder to do (convincingly) than it sounds.

https://vocal.media/fiction/the-wyrmtongue-chronicles

Short Story page revamped and updated

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I’m moving stories to Vocal and will be updating them there in the future. This will make it easier to categorize things.

Harold & the Grumpy Pumpkins Concept Art

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Book 2, like Book 1, has lots of interior artwork. Some of it I drew myself, but a lot is also collected from the internet, or Photoshopped together into a new image. Harold & the Grump Pumpkins is a Halloween Nightmare tale, one derived from too much candy consumption and a bit of indigestion. And more. The mythology of the dream world and its inhabitants changes significantly in Book 2, introducing a wide variety of new characters and mechanics.

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