2020-02-04

“I’m sick of writing ‘silver pieces;’ what are the names of the currency denominations in this game?” Questions like this give me that going-up-in-the-rollercoaster feeling. The house lights have been turned on. Someone in the audience is standing, holding the usher’s mic. The cast has stopped mid-sentence. All eyes turn towards a figure standing just…

2020-01-31

Content warning: This post contains discussion of potentially triggering subjects. It also contains magic, beauty, love, passion, whimsy, and joy. You have been warned. I love to tell stories; I wrote my first sixty-page novella when I was eight, and I’ve been writing in one form or another ever since. I think, somewhere in the…

2020-01-24

It’s gone. It’s all gone. Okay, it’s not all gone, but enough is gone that— Perhaps I should start over. I am, after all, starting over. About three months ago, I got the first notification that the eleven-year-old single hard drive in my colocated server, Prisma, was failing: a single Unrecoverable Sector Error message, quietly…