KL Forslund
Two Minutes to Midnight
It turns out that if you stand vigil in your wife’s hospital room for three days, you get a dream sequence. I can’t feel my feet anymore,...
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Red Wedding
I’d never been to a wedding, so I wasn’t sure if a goat attack was part of the ceremony. Back when Rain and I married, we drove to a...
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Trick or Tweet 2021
In honor of the Halloween season, I participated in #TrickOrTweet2021. The rules were simple, write a scary story including the hashtag...
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Dino-Pirates Christmas Special
The Part Where Sulking Happens Captain Raptor glared at the mirror, his baleful eye unblinking in the dim light of his cabin. His head...
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What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor
Never split up the party, unless everybody wants to see different things at the Ren Fair. Like last year, the wizards gathered at my...
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Murder Most Fowl
Warning: Swearing, Violence, Fan-fiction The clues that Moreau Cay was a murder island were there from the day I woke up inside the...
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Essential Magic
The quest started off with my wife’s floating head. Her jet black hair hung loose about her shoulders instead of in her traditional braid....
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Leaves From Tomorrow
When the guy with one eye hands you a ladle filled with a questionable liquid that’d been sitting in a kettle with a giant head floating...
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Pretty
I remember being pretty. Before the glowing rain. And the hiding. And the sickness. Losing my hair. My pretty, pretty hair. I would be...
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NI15: Stop Beachin'
Captain Raptor woke with a start. There was sand up his nostrils and he’d had a bad dream about losing his ship and crew. And hat. He...
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A Lost Moment
I stand at the trail head, looking out from the forest edge across the fence gate and the field beyond. Vauthier's place I imagine. Funny...
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No ThanksTaking Today
I should have seen it coming when Yasunori said, “I thought there would be turkey.” The thin whispery voice from the translator carried...
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Who Wants to Be a Technomage? (v3)
Another month’s distance from the original idea, and I’ve added a chunk of story complication and action. Who Wants to be a Technomage?...
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Who Wants to be a Technomage? (v2)
A month ago, I shared a first draft short story. A prequel to how Alex Rune assembled a group of technomages. In real life, around 2003...
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Who Wants to be a Technomage (v1)
I find it takes more work and revision writing fiction than non-fiction. Along with fixing mistakes, details and how I present things...
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NI10: Rhoda Listens
Dino-Pirates of The Wreckless Abandon in Ninja Island NOTE: This story is loosely inspired by the RPG Dino-Pirates of Ninja Island and is...
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NI9: Juan's Moment
Juan looked over his raiding party. They were as ready as he could whip them into a frenzy, albeit a mild frenzy. The crew climbed into...
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NI7: Captain King
Dino-Pirates of The Wreckless Abandon in Ninja Island NOTE: This story is loosely inspired by the RPG Dino-Pirates of Ninja Island and is...
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The Last Blade
The Last Blade © 2019 KL Forslund Tirdas, 2nd of Rain's Hand, 4E 175 My sword is the last thing I have to my name, and when I returned...
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NI6: The Wreckless Awakens
A shadow in the shape of a lanky guanlong wearing an ill-fitting tricorn hat interrupted Cera’s morning warm up on the deck chair. “Are...