My father used to say that the road to success is lined with failures. As a master swordsman, he lived by that motto and did his best to teach me to do so as well. After he died and I took up a sword to fight for my village, I have done my best to follow his teachings and his motto.
Prose-ject 2020 5: Song of Fear
My search had now led me to mountaintop ruins at a place where the sky was darkened purple and the air filled with unsettling violin music. The notes struck fear into people's bones — mine included — so no one had dared to approach the ruins after the sky had changed around it.
Prose-ject 2020 4: Banishment Day 155
It is day 155 of my banishment, I think. I can no longer count the lines in my notebook well enough to keep track as each day melds into the ones around it and I have no sleep to regulate my sense of time.
Prose-ject 2020 3: Fearless Cardinal
Perhaps it was all of them. Perhaps Cardinals like that lived wherever she was from. Perhaps the fearlessness was something she could relate to. Actually, she did feel fearless;
Prose-ject 2020 2: When Everything Changed
That day was supposed to be a fun day. Olly and I had organized a charity run for us kids with our friends: each participant would pay the one-euro participation fee and we would all race to the top of the hill just outside our town. The winner would get an ice cream of their choice from our local sellers and the money would go to the local animal shelter.
Prose-ject 2020 1: Nobody’s Perfect
"Well, nobody's perfect." I shrugged. "Well, nobody told you to toss your expensive gear that we're still paying into the beast's mouth!" the team chief, Escargot — yes, he did kind of look like a snail — yelled in my face.
Posting flash fiction on WordPress (UPDATED)
Although I had planned not to participate in Prose-ject this June, I found resisting the temptation to join impossible, so I will be catching up now. However, due to the state of DeviantArt, I have chosen to post my Prose-ject 2020 stories here on WordPress as I have nowhere else to post them.
My portfolio is up and running
If you follow my Twitter account, you have noticed a lot of automated posts from WordPress. These are from posting my portfolio-worthy pieces here to have them in a neat portfolio.
Quarantine Quest
Greenfield going on hiatus
I'm writing an overall art update with this case discussed on DeviantArt at the oment, but I figured that since I have my Greenfield data here, I'll post here first