WIP Snippet: Evalyce Quaestors

Here’s a snippet from my current work in progress. The chapter has no title yet. ?     “Who’s there?” My voice was sharper than intended. More rustling, coming from behind a stack of wooden crates, and a towheaded boy no older than five tumbled into view.     “What’cha lookin’ for?”, he asked.     “You first, whelp. […]

Slang of a Bygone Era- Colonial

Slang, colloquialisms, idioms. These are the myriad vagaries of language, accenting and highlighting culture and subculture. These are the things that make word-play fun, and enhance your writing. Below are 13 slang words from Colonial times for your enjoyment! Try using some in your own works! Example sentences courtesy of the Jericho crew.   1.  Balum […]

Slang of a Bygone Era- Mediaeval

Slang, colloquialisms, idioms. These are the myriad vagaries of language, accenting and highlighting culture and subculture. These are the things that make word-play fun, and enhance your writing. Below are 13 slang words from Mediaeval times for your enjoyment! Try using some in your own works! Example sentences courtesy of the Jericho crew. 1. Basta […]

Pearls Priceless Beyond Compare

          Pearls Priceless Beyond Compare ©2016, Aislynn d’Merricksson   Pearls of memory strung along, one by one, beaded on strands of spirit and soul, myriad shimmering hues, some big, others small. Touch one, then another, and another. Images bloom in the depths, wakening in the mind, scattered over months, days, weeks, […]

Evalyce Short Story: Trial of Xibalba

All that surrounds me is my own deep blue scent of fear. Once this would have roused my hunger, the instinctive urge of the rahksa, the Crescent Reavers, to hunt, to kill. Now, though, the fear is all mine. The hunter has become the hunted. I am in a blackness unlike any other. The velvety […]

Dinner with Lucifer

Dinner with Lucifer ©Aislynn d’Merricksson, 2015 Dedicated to Mark and Tracy Pellegrino, and to the other four wonderful dinner companions that night.   We are a motley group, the five of us, come together to dine with the Prince of Hell and his lovely lady. What a noble cause it is that has brought us […]

Evalyce Short Story: Starshard

  ASF Starshard, Remar Sector, Year of the Wolfrise, 2452 CE       I’ve been to nine planets in twelve years and it’s starting to show. New planets that is, beyond the Coalition’s territory. I’m about to add number ten to that list- Kes Annel, a planet on the edge of the Coba Sector.     I focus […]

Book Review: Searching for the Truth by Maranda Russell

Searching for the Truth by Maranda Russell is a quick read with a powerful punch. The poems and prose within will make you question your beliefs, and take another look at what you think you know. ‘Before Your Eyes’, the very first poem of all, really made me stop and think, and then agree. It’s […]

The Mythic Feminine, Part 10: Gender-Bender: Stephen Ezard (The Last Enemy, BBC)

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Last Enemy, 2008                                                                                                       […]

The Mythic Feminine, Part 9: Modern Heroine: Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire series by GRR Martin)

Maisie Williams as Arya Stark and Miltos Yerolemou as Syrio Forel, Game of Thrones, 2011- present Arya Stark, daughter of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, is one of the many heroines to be found throughout the world of A Song of Ice and Fire and her story is still unfolding. Arya comes from a noble […]

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