January 2005

This is a list of archived entries published in January 2005.

“One of a Hundred”

This story was originally written to flesh out two characters I had created with a friend for a roleplaying game. When I later began work on Tales of Atreval, I found I could easily swap the two characters for the two main heroes of TOA, Arstace of Fluy and Nahual the Gwant.
I think the story [...]

01.30.2005 | Fiction | Permalink | Comments closed

“The Adventure of the Pharaoh’s Sceptre” (excerpt)

This was written in December 2001 as a gift for a then-girlfriend. To write it, I read about two dozen of Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories in a week, immersing myself in the style. When it was done, I placed it in an envelope claiming to be from a group called “The Sherlock Holmes Society” [...]

01.29.2005 | Fiction | Permalink | Comments closed

“Stealing Llamas”

This story, written in summer 2001, was intended to be a (fond) parody of a certain half-hour-long commercial I enjoyed as a child. As you can see, at this point I’ve started to move away from blatant fan fiction to thinly-veiled fan fiction. This story has already been published online in its entirety by PulpLit, [...]

01.29.2005 | Fiction | Permalink | Comments closed