Tuliyollal’s horizon was broken only by the glimmering, silvered shadow of a single ship as it pulled out of the harbor into the bright afternoon sunlight. Sails, brand new and bright white, lofted with the fair winds, billowing to fullness to send the ship dancing along the waves like the...
Just an update from me! My family and I were caught in Hurricane Beryl when it struck the Houston area. Rest assured that we’re fine and our home sustained no major damage. We have a lot of limbs and debris in the yard, one felled tree, but that’s the worst...
Thunderous rumbles rippled across the stands to the syncopathic beat of a thousand feet stomping in semi-unison amidst the guttural yells and bellows of hundreds of voices all singing out in a liturgy of violence and chaos. Merciless was the sun that glared down into the sunken hollow of the...
In a small camp not far from Stormwind, Jaehana sat with a needle and thread gingerly sewing bright blue pinion feathers onto her pauldron. The feathers were few and precious, difficult to come by, but somehow Gethran had managed. With delicate claws, she poked the needle through the hollow calamus...
I decided I would make the attempt to do Nanowrimo this year — for the uninitiated, that’s National Novel Writing Month. You spend the thirty days of November frantically trying to pound out a novel of 50,000 words or more. I’ve participated in a number of years, but I think...
FFXIV Write Official LinksRules & Info ♥ Prompt List ♥ #FFxivWrite2023 ♥ kofi This is a make-up day for Day One: Envoy. It should be noted here that the last four-line stanza in a ballade or a sestina are called envoi (or envoy) in poetry. The Lighthouse On a remote island there’s a lighthouseStanding silent vigil...
FFXIV Write Official LinksRules & Info ♥ Prompt List ♥ #FFxivWrite2023 ♥ kofi “Hard to port, Mister Selbaer, or they’re going to catch us amidships and we’ll all be feeding Leviathan for supper!” At the helm, the swarthy viera gripped the ship’s wheel with both hands, leaning his entire body into veering the ship to...
Gospel It was a social week for our resident paladin-turned-sage as Gospel spent a fair bit of time in the city of Ul’dah. After a chance encounter with the young viera warden, Fiver Waterdown, Gospel found that she had a new goal. In speaking with Fiver, she recalled that the...
Katja We begin the week with our resident firecatte who went into a necromancer’s abandoned laboratory with her friends, Valeria Camena and T’Shira Rihll in the company of the armored familiar, Litany. Together, the four of them scoured Rihad’s abandoned lab for more information on Litany, his past, or any...
Lafiel Lafiel had a chance encounter with one V’ari Tia, a Seeker of the Sun miqo’te who claimed to be a hunter-adventurer of some sort. Yet, that wasn’t the most interesting thing about the man. No, the most interesting thing about V’ari was that he had with him a Wind...
