Thomas North

That Moment, Small and Mundane “Mother, I’ve decided what I want for my birthday,” Edelas said. The skies were gray, the air was chill, and the wind blustered. It was a respite from the oppressive summer heat, a present for all …

This week from my #ShortStory vault, a spirit celebrates her adopted daughter's birthday and bond over a shared interest.

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Another item for my wish list!

I've read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and I have in my library The Riddle Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire, all of which are in their first editions with their lovely old-school art. I'm glad this collection pays homage to that art. McKillip is great too 😁

💙📚 On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for family and several hours of reading time. I'm halfway through "To Green Angel Tower" by Tad Williams ⚔️

Amusingly, Morris was reacting in his day against good old-fashioned industrialization by striving towards an idealized, medieval way of life that, in his opinion, was more communal.

Ah, how things change, yet stay the same.

I'm proud to have recently purchased some books from a small press, for publishing some of William Morris's work long out of print and breathing new life into it.

Across so many aspects of our lives, it is clear to me that we need to support smaller, and shall I say, more communal, organizations, ones that better respect our humanity. For books, here is a way forward.

That's really eye-catching, the iridescence is cool. Congrats!

Nice haiku, great photo!

Seven (!) years later, and I realize that this introduction is missing a more compelling conflict. Alas, I'll remember that when I get back to writing about these two characters.

Please enjoy regardless 😇

I usually save my comments for the afterword I put in the post, but as I was writing the blurb here for the link, I really wanted to say "two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they must figure out <blah blah> before <something bad>". But I couldn't, it's pretty slice-of-life-y.

Awaken From the Dream of Life Darkness, silence, purity. Nothing. There was nothing, until something knew the nothingness, and so We began. A deep note resounded once, and then motes of light flickered and drifted through dimen…

This week going through my #ShortStory vault:

Two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they figure out who they are and what's their purpose.

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A Glimmer of Light Golden sunlight poured into the parlor, painting a gilded outline on the face of Ilisan, my sweet neighbor. We weren’t talking about much at all, just the idle conversation of a lazy summer evening…

The spirits of a wife and husband at last get an opportunity in their afterlife they did not get in life, but at what cost?

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What happens when two machines love each other? And what does that mean legally? "The Flaming Embusen" has some answers, and a healthy dose of social commentary.

Thank you @tadethompson.bsky.social !

I've already read my Ballantine paperback of The Sundering Flood, so I look forward to reading these. It's a shame that Morris's novels languish in obscurity, but his delightfully (artificially) archaic style is admittedly a hard sell to audiences who expect "normal" sounding prose.

William Morris books published by Hyldyr

My collection of William Morris novels expands! These are published by Hyldyr.

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Please do not manifest a hellgate into this 2025 😅

Thank you @samtasticbooks.com for the short story!

The worldbuilding was excellent, loved the the plants and creatures of Genna.

I also liked (what I assume to be) Youtja chanting and vocalizations in the soundtrack, quite immersive.

I saw Predator: Badlands this weekend, and it was awesome. It pleased me to see a film trusting its audience enough to dedicate its whole opening to showing the Youtja culture AND have everyone talk in an alien language the whole time. That was very satisfying.

What a wonderful find! Beautiful and a little eerie with how the quilting progresses.

The Glow Upon the Clouds (Unfinished) In life, the husband and the wife both loved song and dance. I remember; it was song and dance that brought them together for the first time, as youths first taking interest in those of the other s…

The spirits of a wife and husband write a song together in this unfinished draft from 2017.

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Learning about the variations finally made it click for me. Thanks Wikipedia! But of course, an encyclopedia has its limits, so your writings are quite illuminating.

And lo, I actually stumbled across your versemeter blog while googling a couple weeks ago. Small world!

Indeed, I found it very helpful. I'll bookmark it and come back to it in the future for reference. I've known for quite a while what strictly went into the meter, but I wondered how we could get such lovely language strictly following it, and it was only recently that I learned about the variations.

Thank you for the material! I'll take a look.

I found it to be a good exercise. It's one thing to know what iambic pentameter is, but another to see it and feel it. And even if it doesn't build up my poetic muscle, then at least I've formed a deeper connection with the pieces.

My scansion of "Ode to Psyche" by John Keats

After a few different attempts over the years to write my own #poetry, particularly with meter (respect to modern poets to don't use meter, but I personally like the more old-fashioned stuff), I tried copying some poems and writing scansions of them. It was a lot of fun!

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An excellent demonstration of the craft using the absurdity of the current moment/year/decade, with several other examples of good character writing to emulate. I've read other variations of this advice before, but that just means that it's good advice to remember and apply.

Very cool idea, I can see how that could shape the culture(s) of those species. Would be pretty thematic in a book or movie/show/game too. Isn't it great when you stumble across an idea and it takes you in awesome directions?

Excellent, good luck and happy writing for the new story, you got this.

The Good Stuff It was a hot summer day here in The Middle of Nowhere. The sun had reached its zenith, casting hot, white light onto the land below. It was a dry heat, much as it had been for a while, as the crops…

Continuing my way through my old stuff. This was my first attempt at a first-person story back in 2017, and it turned out to be a seed of something much more I hope to return to one day.

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