Fantasy novel & RPG nerd writing about the Stitched Realms.
Gentle reader, Enjoy the new FREE visual novel & card game demo Jolly Good: A Ghastly Entertainment! In Jolly Good: AGE, Jolly the Scarecrow tells the story of waking up in a castle, dreaming of building a circus, and fighting his way to town pasts ghosts, buzzards, and mechanical men
Read moreThe screeching fanfare of the goblin pipes filled the town square, paused as Jolly fumbled with the inn door, and wailed its final notes. Of course, not a single villager sought to stop Jolly or turn him away. He, and all of Thimblecross' problems, were Tilly's problems.
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"There's too much Thimblecross for one defender. You protect from the light of the hearth fire, I protect from the shadows."
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Tilly was neither unusually religious nor superstitious, but in Thimblecross a couple of rituals struck the innkeeper as practical
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"A play about invisible rats? Is that really what you think the children need? Most of them are appropriately terrified of the regular ones. They don't need nightmares about invisible ones."
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"So not just a wild rat. A rat that can fly?" Tilly said. "A rat that can disappear?"
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"What's down there?" "Um Wim, Wimmy old pal. Can I call you Wimmy? You're probably better off not knowing."
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"I need more, though." He said. He raised his voice with each sentence. "I've worked these mines for years. You've given me many a warning. But we need more. More than just being warned away from the worst. We need a miracle."
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"Wim? Is that you? Well, come in and tell me what went wrong after you stable that filthy beast."
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Another crack, this one louder and echoing. Timbers creaked. Eyes wide, Wim dashed up the mine. He nearly impaled his left shoulder with his pickaxe in a frenzied rush. Behind him, lumber snapped and rock roared into the shaft.
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Laughter and the light of candles spilled carelessly from the inn into the thick fog, but a familiar, pale figure with well-trimmed nails stood between me and the merriment I meant to dismantle.
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“This is your final tribute, Fetterly. Do you understand?”
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Free, novel-length web serial + completed short stories
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"Tell me, Mr. Jolly, how did you come to be in possession of Harrow Castle? Or rather, should we call it the Black Castle again, since the Harrows are no longer with us?"
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