Tag: pride

  • Wilding Places

    Wilding Places

    When the wild creeps into the human spaces, the fear crawls along with it like a wounded animal, snapping at anything that moves. From time immemorial, bandits have hidden in the forests, even if only metaphorically, and a tangle of trees and brush ignites a spark deep in the brain. An instinctive reaction to an…

  • Curmudgeon’s Corner: Pride

    Curmudgeon’s Corner: Pride

    This is a repost, the article originally appeared at the Otherwhere Gazette two years ago.  Cedar’s note: this post engendered a lot of discussion, much of it from failing to read carefully: the First Reader is talking about the church as a political entity, not as a body of people. There’s a comment on the…

  • Audiobooks and the Art of Reading Aloud

    Audiobooks and the Art of Reading Aloud

    The First Reader and I were talking the other day about audiobooks. I know I’ve been asked more than a few times about having the Noir series made into audiobooks, and frankly the only thing stopping me is time. I had started to look into it about a year ago, and stopped to deal with…

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 5

    Ok, usual warnings apply: this is rough draft, so there will be errors. Feel free to point them out in comments! Hope you enjoy, and I still haven’t gotten this out to beta readers, I have been so busy with school. To begin at the beginning, look here: Snippet Round-Up.  ****************************************** “What?” Bella straightened with…