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‘You, okay boy?’ Shouted Ned concerned for his new found companions safety. ‘Yeh! What were those things?’ replied Flynn confirming he was safe and venturing to satisfy his curiosity. ‘Owls!’ Said Ned, ‘Black Owls, but not like any Owls you would have seen.’ ‘Owls?’ questioned Flynn...

If been working on a few personal exercises in writing style. This is the result of one such exercise and I was wondering what people thought? Sorry had to post in parts. TALES FROM MARKESH: ONE; OLD NED Lying on his back and looking skyward Flynn absorbed the warmth of the new sun. In the...

The following essay is based on the events of 9AD when three Roman Legions were massacred in the Wiehengebirge forest. TERROR AMID THE TREES I hate the trees! They tower menacingly above my position like the mighty closed ranks of a faceless foe; their knitted canopy screens the whisper of...

[B]Inspired to write by the horror of reality[/B] Why write? Do we scribe merely to vent our creative talents or do many authors hold a darker tale. Are the jotted notes we constantly make mere scribbling or a release from the tension many of us hold inside. Whether our words are born of...

Porthos poem rekindled the poet in me, so I decided to share this with the site. Thanks Porthos! The following is a poem I wrote before deploying across the border into Iraq at the start of the second gulf war. I wrote it with my wife in mind, but never actually sent it to her (just as well...

The following is a small passage I wrote under a tree whilst serving in Sierra Leone. It was written following a real incident which touched the heart of a man of war. Kids; not the same the world over. I sat beneath a stalwart of a tree; weathered by time, it had defied the relentless...

The writing process: Fantasy fiction How do you write your book? Well a question that many people ask, now I’m no expert but I do follow a process that seems to work well for me. I thought I’d share it with you, or at least with those who are interested. I work fairly blind and my...

Excerpt from the Mapping of Markesh. Please note this is the unedited version as was the intro I posted previously. In answer to the reply I recieved on the last post, well I suppose capitalization is important but I went to secondary school 25 years ago and leave that stuff to the editor, hell...

You may wish to try this book, it is available on amazon. PROLOGUE They say there’s a bit of the Devil in all of us, I suppose it keeps the balance in our everyday actions, but from experience it is fair to say that some people hold far more of the horned fellows attributes than could be...