Monthly Archives: April 2012

Gee Yap!

“Down there.”  Jak grabbed her by the back of her head and focused her attention.  Dyan and her captors squatted behind a pair of shattered boulders, ankle-deep in their own fragmented offspring, and below them lay a red slope.  The … Continue reading

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What Would Be the Fun of That?

“You don’t expect me to just give in, do you?” she wheezed, between painful-sounding grunts. “Funny,” Jak said, his voice flat.  “That’s just what you seem to expect from me.” “Kill me, then,” Cheela pushed him. “I’ve got a better … Continue reading

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It’s Not as Fun as It Looks

Jak slammed the medikit against a boulder.  With a hiss, it popped open. “Nobody’s going to die of infection,” he announced, coming up with a tube of topical antibiotic. Cheela closed her eyes and feigned sleep while Jak knelt to … Continue reading

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Find Me a Big Rock

“Step away from the tree, Dyan,” Cheela said.  She stood squarely downhill from Dyan, her feet planted apart and under her shoulders, her long coat pulled back behind her, her fingers flexing above her belt.  “You too, Jaik.” “Jak,” he … Continue reading

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Kill or Capture

“What I want to know,” Deek said, bumping into Dyan’s back and clattering to a halt, “is what kind of Mechanical I’ll be.  I mean, I accept that I have to be specialized, but if I’m going to do just … Continue reading

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Bedlam’s Song

Here’s my most recent song.  I recorded it through the mic and camera of my laptop, so the sound is overloaded — keep the volume down.

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Book Bomb!

Rock Band Fights Evil #4 is now available on Amazon. Rock Band is awesome, fist-pumping adventure literature.  If you haven’t tried it yet, get Rock Band #1, Hellhound on My Trail, here.

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E.J. Patten Blog Tours Us

I welcome fellow Story Monkey E.J. Patten, incipiently-world famous author of Return to Exile and (coming this Fall) The Legend Thief.  E.J. launches off today on his marathon tour of bookblogdom, so in order to avoid tiring him out too … Continue reading

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