Flash Fiction – Translation


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Flash fiction archaeology dig jack jeri carveAfter not having time for Chuck’s flash fiction challenge last Friday, I had to make darn sure I made the time for it this week. So here it is.

First we had to click here, which would generate a random sentence. This sentence was then to be used as the opening or closing line in a piece of flash fiction of no more than 1000 words.

Well I clicked on the link and I was given…

 

“Why won’t a story collapse across another confidential paint”

Hope you like my story and want to comment on it. I enjoyed writing it, but I have gone back to my tendency towards darkness.

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Arcane Legends: Spacetime Studios is at it again


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Spacetime studios logo announcement logo image mobile mmo advert adIf you can’t get enough of the Spacetime Studios Pocket series, then the fourth in the series entitled Arcane Legends is likely to be a welcome addition to your download list. Following on from Pocket Legends, Star Legends and Dark Legends, Arcane Legends is the latest mobile MMO from SpaceStudios and is expected to be released on iOS, Android and Chrome early autumn 2012.

Arcane Legends seems to have its roots firmly in the more traditional style rpg. Choosing between a warrior, a rogue or a sorcerer you fight your way through dungeons filled with the various nasties and ne’er-do-wells, collecting loot, leveling up and so on and so forth.

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Jim Franklin, Some More Unknown Facts


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Jim Franklin InfoThat darn elusive Barry Smirkington’s at it again. He’s dug even deeper in my sordid history and laid it even more Jim-facts to bare. What will stop him and his wretched fact-mongering? Is he doing this for money or fame? Maybe the promise of a young maidens hand? Perhaps he’s a time traveller putting things right what once went wrong? Who’s to say?

More importantly will he ever stop? Well that’s up to him of course. Although my army of assassin hedgehogs may have something to say about it.

It’s very important to state at this time that these facts are true in a completely libelous way. Understand? Good.

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Flash Fiction: Lycan and the Zombie Cowboy Monkeys of Doom


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flash fiction zombie werewolf doom story tale makakIn this week’s flash fiction competition, Chuck Wendig asks, no orders us to go bat-shit crazy with our flash fiction. He wants Pulp fiction and craziness. Now, I’ve never written pulp fiction before but I have more than enough crazy so I’m hoping that It can compensate.

So, what was I going to write about? Werewolves? Zombies? Monkeys? Cowboys? Private detectives? Nah, how about all them?

Hope you like it. If you do, please leave a comment. If not, leave a comment but be nice? :)

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Elder Scrolls Online Announced


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The Elder Scrolls Online Zenimax logo sign cover imageThere have been rumours of an Elder Scrolls MMO flying around for some time now. Rumours that have been met with equal amounts of cynicism and curiosity. Well, these rumours have now been confirmed. The Elder Scrolls Online is being developed by Zenimax Online Studios and is to be released in 2013 sometime, though I suspect this to be towards the end of 2013.

The Elder Scrolls Online is set a millennium before the events of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a time when the evil Daedric Prince Molag Bal tries to suck all of Tamriel into some demonic world.

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Dark Legends Vampire MMO now on iPhone


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spacetime studios mmo vampire iphone ios ipad game rpg dark legendsJust a quick post to let you know that the waiting is finally over. Dark Legends, the vampire based MMO by Spacetime Studios is now available on iOS. So, now you can experience the intense MMO action as you fight your way through endless hordes of monsters and humans to reclaim your place and save the vampire race. Continue reading →


Flash Fiction: T-Wrecks


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flash fiction Tyrannosaurus dinosaurAnother flash fiction by Mr Wendig, and with the release of his new book ‘Dinocalypse Now’ he’s feeling all dinosaury and why not? So the challenge this week is to write a piece of flash fiction, again for 1000 words that features dinosaurs. Seemed easy enough but it turns out that ideas were bubbling and mixing in a strange way today.

I wonder what you think.

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Finding My Undiscovered Posts


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flash fiction posts find lost hidden world of warcraft fable 3It’s amazing to thing that since this blog began in February there are some posts that have been relatively undiscovered. There are some bits of flash fiction that have only been read by one or two people. I don’t think they’re bad posts necessarily, maybe the SEO was off or maybe I just didn’t sitemap them properly, who knows?

So to showcase these undiscovered marvels of flash fiction and other posts, I’m going to re-introduce them here. Let’s see what we can do to push these posts a little more into the limelight.

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Flash Fiction: Nerve Wracking God


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annoy flash fiction god chuck wendigThe joy of the flash fiction challenge rolls around again and despite being a little later than normal, I’m raring to go. Chuck commands us to click on this link here to generate five random military operation names.

Choose one of them for a title and then write my piece of flash fiction. I clicked, and the gods of chaos gave me the following…

 

  1. Operation: Beaming Privet Bush
  2. Operation: Smouldering Industry
  3. Operation: Ejaculating Bear
  4. Operation: Destructive Beaver
  5. Operation: Nerve Wracking God

It has to be said there was a large part of me wanting to write the tale of the ejaculating bear or the destructive beaver, but my brain just didn’t want to go that way. So instead, I used ‘Nerve Wracking God’.

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