Storm Breaker

by on July 26, 2025 at 12:01 am
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I originally wrote Storm Breaker for the Magic Malfunction anthology for Raconteur Press. They didn’t pick it up, and I rewrote it for the Magic Malfunction anthology. Also not picked up. So here it is, in a way never seen before by anybody. I combined the parts I missed from Magic Malfunction with the more polished Magic Malfunction manuscript, and I think this version is better than both were on their own. What happens when a hurricane thunders down on Eastern Texas in 1877? If you know history, you know exactly what happened. But history discounted the contribution of Rangers and gods. This story puts them back exactly where they belong.

Storm Breaker on substack

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Artifact Origins

by on July 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Have you ever wondered where all those odd magical artifacts come from in fantasy novels? These stories describe everything from weird trinkets to devices with world-ending importance. Do you want fantasy stories about eccentric alchemists, quirky witches, and genius wizards without a lick of common sense as they create the stuff of legends? These writers made your artifacts fun, whimsical, and dangerous beyond all reason.

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Goblin Market

by on July 24, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Raconteur Press is putting out another anthology this weekend, this one about powerful artifacts and where they come from. While you are waiting for the story to reach Amazon and go online, you may want to check out the Goblin Market by Raconteur Press. It includes my story, Goblins in the Marketplace, that is built around the idea of a powerful artifact. What is it? That’s a question for another day. But this story also introduces the Shiny Thing that finds itself in many of my stories. What is it? Who can tell? When goblins believe in something, what can they do with it? Go to the Goblin Market and see for yourselves how it started.

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Prison?

by on July 23, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Will government people go to prison? I’m not holding my breath. We all know that we live in a world where government people can do terrible things to anybody using the strong arm of the government and get away with it. They have all my life, and I’m not expecting that to change.

Oh, they send us one little sacrificial lamb every once in a while. A government type who has fallen out of favor with the Democrat party. Or maybe a Republican who got a bit too mouthy with the wrong government employee in good standing. Sometimes someone gets a token few months probation or loses their law license for a year or three. But they rarely let good government types actually go to prison.

But this time a lifelong Democrat appears to be pushing for conspiracy prosecutions against a vast Democrat conspiracy. And do you know what this conspiracy did? It reached out across America to put political opponents in prison. To raid their houses. They left the comfortable confines on Washington DC and chased down opponents where they lived. In places like Florida. And a conspiracy can be sued wherever it takes place. That means we could get court cases outside the Washington Beltway, where there are no 90%+ Democrat populations devoted to making certain that good Democrats are not convicted of crimes.

If the Justice Department actually pursues cases outside the Beltway, the juries might just convict Democrats. And then we might actually see faithful government types going to prison. Might. I’m not holding my breath. Just… considering the possibilities of a brighter future where government types might go to prison for what they’ve done…

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Treason?

by on July 22, 2025 at 12:01 am
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It is not a small thing when a life-long Democrat accuses the last mentally-functional Democrat President of committing treason. It’s even bigger when she is the head of the Department of National Intelligence, brings the receipts, gives them to the Department of Justice, and calls for prosecutions. What happened?

According to what we are told, President Obama received a Presidential Daily Brief after the 2016 election that said the Russians did not hack the 2016 election that Trump won. He did not like that briefing and ordered another created that showed how they did it. Then the new briefing information was leaked to the news media, which started all the rumors of Trump belonging to Russia. Which caused the FBI investigation, which arrested some of Trump’s people, and mired the first Trump Administration in controversy and impeachments.

The charge is that President Obama used the intelligence agencies of America to sabotage his political opponent. And the word treason is used. This is not small. This is very big. Now I’m not going to say that people are going to do prison time. As we all know, we live in at least a two-tier justice system, where big wig Democrats don’t get charged for breaking the law. But if the receipts back the charges, this is one of the largest Presidential scandals of American history. We need to see the receipts, and if this true, people need to go to prison for the health of the Republic. Because if people can do this, be discovered to do have done it, and still walk free, our Republic is over.

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