My debut novel, The Fate of Stars, will soon be published by Moonfire Publishing. Because of that, I am migrating Alchemy of the Word to a new website GideonJagged.com. Please join me there for all the latest content.
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My debut novel, The Fate of Stars, will soon be published by Moonfire Publishing. Because of that, I am migrating Alchemy of the Word to a new website GideonJagged.com. Please join me there for all the latest content.
The night after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing, I snuck out of the house to look at the fat crescent of the moon high in the sky and thought, ‘There are people up there!’
I didn’t know it then but—at the age of five—I had just lost my religion.
Dævara should have asked more questions before she first set up shop as a whore…
Amber sat on the mattress just outside her tent and, for the fifteenth dawn, watched the death of the sky…
Amber finds the ruins of Samarkand, passing between diorite sphynges, down to the underworld. Things are going to get much worse.
She was younger than he and not a beauty. Too much care had tarnished her features. Under the long coat, he knew, was a slender attractive figure. It was that, he could now confess that had first drawn his attention. But it was her spirit that had ensnared him. She compelled in a way a mere beauty could never have.
A thumbnail bio of Dævara
Keep your god. I’ll take this.
The psyches of nonhuman species are going to be different from ours. Sketching out the parameters of an alien mind is essential to writing believable characters.
We don’t have cures for mass delusions and some of the deluded have access to apocalyptic weaponry.