Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Tag: fiction
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“Was it a mistake to freeze the djinn?” Al Hamra asked, flinching a little as a bullet struck the air hockey table he was hiding behind. The whine of gunfire echoed around the sumptuous lounge, and something valuable cracked loudly in the ricochet from the gunshot. Al Hamra winced and touched a thin, dark-skinned hand…
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Out of a lack of good sense I started watching the new Netflix show The Diplomat, which is basically about a woman called Katherine Wylder who gets appointed US ambassador to London just as an enormous shitshow of international relations swamps the post. She gets entangled in this quite complex international conspiracy while trying to…
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We carry in our hearts the true countryAnd that cannot be stolenWe follow in the steps of our ancestryAnd that cannot be broken We Orcs do not have “names”, because every one of us is a verse in the ongoing Saga of our Clan. Were you to simplify the verses of my story so far…
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I am writing a series of posts about my attempt to re-read The Mists of Avalon in light of the terrible things we know about the author Marion Zimmer Bradley (MZB). The story has now advanced considerably and although it wasn’t my original intention in this re-reading, I feel I am able to glean a…
Compromise and Conceit 