A reference to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" The picture is from the chapel bible Indy shows to the Army intelligence officers at the beginning of the movie.
There is no verse 61 in Exodus 27, nor does the Bible ever speak of the Ark leveling mountains or laying waste to entire regions.
"The mountains were leveled and the entire region was wasted by the power of the Ark of the Covenant, the covering of the Mercy Seat and God's glory."
Exodus 27:61
I've never promised anyone good poetry.
Roses are blue,
violets are red.
Please get these
color schemes
out of my head.
#postingpoems
Just read this. Recommended! Another great #SwordandSorcery tale from S&SM.
I have four subs out, two #SciFi and two #fantasy / #SwordandSorcery.
Fingers crossed, but regardless of the outcome, it feels good to have stuff out there. #amwriting
COMING SOON
What mysteries does the Eye of Al-Khapish hold? Who may tolerate its eldritch power? Who shall become... Merynthia's Master?
'Swordfighter' is one word, spellcheck be damned!
Counter at a comic book store with two stacks of printouts.
Oona the Unvanquishable will be available in limited, printed form each month at Cosmic Comix in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. If you're in the area, pick up a copy.
Each issue is a 1-page printout, double-sided on the finest pulp paper available (kinda).
#FreeFiction
Reading: Shannon Chakraborty's 'The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi'
Related to my last post.
#writing
I believe this is correct. I wonder if much of the personal investment that writers have in their craft –drawing from experience, biography, etc.– is lost to many of these AI techbros. See, for example, Andr@@ssen's recent comments dismissing introspection. #writing
Currently working on the next installment in this series
#amwritingfantasy
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The new issue has the latest installment of my 'Oona the Unvanquishable' #FreeFiction
The second issue of Scribe & Sigil is live! Lot's of contributors this month, including a bunch from the NESS community @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
If you're interested in joining us check out the About page. scribe-and-sigil.com/2026/04/01/s...
Issue 170, March 2026, is now live for your reading pleasure with four new stories. Enjoy!
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
The Chain Story Project has released its latest tale: A Feast For Pan by James D. Mills.
Please enjoy, like and *especially* SHARE. (Shares make projects like this possible.) Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/a-feast-for-pan
I'm finishing up the sequel to this story in Issue #2 of my zine, OONA THE UNVANQUISHABLE. It will appear in the forthcoming Scribe & Sigil APA.
Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.”
Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”
Currently reading: Melissa Burlock's "Bride of the Lion.” New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine (2025).
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and back with some partial view of the sides. At the bottom is an eBL watermark showing that the tablet is about 5 inches wide. (eBL stands for electronic Babylonian Library)
tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī
arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī
"Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me
A new moon will appear, my sun will shine."
A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.
Looking forward to picking this up. I've been meaning to read this work for a while (I've only read Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories).
One week until the release of Frolic Press's special edition of Fritz Leiber's CONJURE WIFE, a foundational work of horror/fantasy (often cited as the earliest example of "urban fantasy")
Apparatus by Ramsey Campbell, the world's most-awarded living fantasy writer
March 20 wherever books are sold
Okay I think I forgot to big up this when it came out BUT we have a REALLY GOOD talk and I expound on my "I think every novel should have a giant worm in it" theory which the LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT does not want me to DISCUSS I am being SILENCED
The Chain Story project has just released Abhartach's Castle by @aaroncanton.bsky.social .
Please enjoy, like and take the time to share. (Sharing really helps the Project a lot. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/abhartachs-castle
The first Astartha tale.
2nd in NESS #4, 3rd in NESS #6. They grow stronger and stronger. I still don't know how to talk about them, but nothing in NESS gives me such a frisson. After 2 I had to prowl about in the night air until the physiological buzz wore off a bit. 3 hit me where I have lived.
