Archive for October, 2009

Hexes and Tooth Decay by Nancy Fulda

26th October 2009 by Darwin 1 Comment

Hey.  It’s not like I asked to get set up in the tooth business.
It happened this way: I’d just hunkered down to breakfast beside my favorite rock.  It’s a lovely thing: all crumbling and lichen-covered.  I like it because it looks a lot like me, except it has no feet.  I was taking my first […]

Review: The Tuloriad by Ringo and Kratman

17th October 2009 by Darwin 9 Comments

I’d sworn off Ringo’s Aldenata universe. Really, I had.  You see, though, I was at the library with my son as he pulled references for a college project and there, on a shelf of new arrivals, was The Tuloriad.  “Okay,” I told myself, “I’ll just check out a page or two.  It can’t do any […]

Epilogue by Jane Chirgwin

12th October 2009 by Darwin 2 Comments

“So we have defeated the evil wizard after fighting out way through the bugbears, trolls, orcs, and rabid sheep, thus freeing these human children from the evil spell that was draining their souls in order to open a demon gate. I guess we’re done, then.” Fenris the dwarf finished tying off his bandage […]