Horoscopes for the discerning masochist. Where most soothsayers like to keep things vague, so that any person might find applicability in them, I prefer to be...

The Monsters Among Us follows a podcaster who has spent their career trying to find proof of the existence of monsters in the days after those very same monste...

Alt: Joe Exotic: Never Going to Financially Recover

All the odd stuff in my steam library, in alphabetical order – Part 1 We’ve all got loads of shit in our Steam libraries, right? Sales and bundles and whatnot? I’ve been wanting to try and actually do some reviews and some critical writing, and while I was at it, why not knock another one off the list and give some time to the games I own that I’ve never played or barely touched?

To give a spoiler-free pitch, the basic idea is the protagonist coming out of suspended animation on a deep space colony ship where things have gone badly wrong. He wakes up, without even his memory, and is immediately set upon. I’ll try and keep the rest light on explicit spoilers, but... you know. The story is dark from the off. Damn near everything that could go wrong, already has gone wrong, and we’re only finding out about it as the protagonist does.

ALT: Garth Marenghi Garth Marenghi'S Darkplace

Definitely not a seagull. Arch-prognosticator and futurist. D&D DM. 40K painter. Writer of weird fiction. 🏳️‍🌈 My first novel, "Empty Shells"...

ALT: Uma Musume Meisho Doto

Yes, it's time for another batch of horoscopes for the discerning masochist. Aries: You go on weight loss pills. Unfortunately, due to a prescribing accident, you spend fourteen months taking a laxative every morning. You mistakenly believe the consequences of this mistake to be a case of understated side effects. You do lose weight, but your electrolytes budget goes through the roof in a desperate attempt to stay hydrated.

I wrote this one quite a while ago, but completely forgot to post it. Partly because I was busy with last editing passes over Empty Shells (available now on Amazon), and partly because I started writing the next chapter, which would have explained why the council chose this particular moment to reveal their existence to the world. Which I've now entirely changed my mind on doing, at least within the scope of this serialised online bloggy thing.