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I've decided to serialize some of my short stories on my website and the Fictosphere. Same post, just two different places, because that's not confusing at all. Here's the first part of Rat Trap, featuring Hank Kielson.

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Rat Trap: Serialized and Free

I have/had a series of eBooks up for sale on Amazon featuring a schlubby guy investigating paranormal stuff, or at least that was the intent. He features in one of them, but the other three introduce (or in one case, re-introduce) other characters but, well, I talk about it more on the post for the first part of Rat Trap.

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Rat Trap (1/4)

What follows was, until now, the ultimate version of the story “Rat Trap”, which had its origins in a college assignment and was eventually supposed to lead to a serialized number of short stories which would lead into a novel tying up lose ends and bringing the characters into a larger world. As time went on, I realized that this was rather messy and depended on people being willing to pay,…

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Lord Myk's Movie Kombat: Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) Vs. Laser Mission (1989)

Welcome to the third round of the first bracket of Lord Myk’s Movie Kombat, called so because I’m pitting my DVD collection against itself to see what my favorite movie is! Movies at the store are already getting wind of it, ejecting themselves off the shelves to attack me or hide! One one side, we have the sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes! Dr. Phibes Rises Again, which takes place three…

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Lord Myk's Movie Kombat

You may remember several months back when I pledged to review all the movies I owned. I started strong but the project quickly became more of a burden than anything else as I wondered why I was forcing myself to review this collection of movies instead of something more constructive and the more I pondered this the more I was sure that you, the hypothetical reader, was having just as much fun…

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MH370: The Anniversary of Mystery

I wrote about a missing plane once before, a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra which had only two passengers and one was famed aviator Amelia Earhart. In 2024 here, Deep Sea Vision found via sonar what could possibly be the remains that missing Earhart plane from 1937. We don’t know. However, a missing plane tragedy far greater than Earhart’s missing plane exists and it’s the 10-year anniversary of…

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Lord Mýk Vs. Physical Media: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

At the beginning of the millennium when spending money was sparse for me and movies were far more expensive, I spent a lot of time on the sites belonging to the B-Masters Cabal, a group of people who reviewed (and some who still do review) movies that were bad, weird, forgotten, or in some cases just kind of fun. Most of these films were reviewed with a certain amount of affection, though there…

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Announcing Adventures on Abroconia

Today, I’m launching a new comic called Adventures on Abroconia, a spin-off/supplement to Zorgnox’s Depository of Earth Sundries focusing more on the world outside of that titular store and its employees. It’s going to be a Patreon semi-exclusive, meaning that as the story is updating, it’ll only available to Patreon subscribers. You can find out more, and maybe subscribe and whatnot, here.

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Lord Mýk Vs. Physical Media: Arrival (2016)

There are going to be some movies in my collection that are going to be difficult to write about since the only reason I own them is because they came with something else and the only thing I remember about them is that they exist. 2016’s Arrival is one of those movies. You might remember hearing about it, though all I could recall was that it involved aliens coming to Earth and a linguist…

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Lord Myk Vs. Physical Media: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

I’ve been playing video games for most of my life, and through most of those years I’ve primarily played on Nintendo consoles though I’ll dip into other consoles when the opportunity arises. In the early years this meant getting a Sega Game Gear and getting heavily into the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons and comics. After all, while I could just play the Super Mario games his cartoons were usually…

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Lord Myk Vs. Physical Media: Annihilation (2018)

These reviews are ultimately an excuse to reminisce about each movie I own and, in many cases, talk about how bad they are but why I still like them. Or, indeed, why I might dislike them. In this regard, 2018’s Annihilation is simply an awful way to start things off. I was unaware of it before it came out, was dimly aware that it did due in part to a video from Red Letter Media, and then promptly…

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Lord Mýk Reviews All His Dang Movies

I’m going to review every single movie I own, even the 50-pack of poorly transferred science fiction movies. So here’s how I intend to work things: I’m breaking it up into ten movie chunks, and each time I start a chunk I’ll list the ten movies within that chunk. Most of the time it’ll be alphabetical, but sometimes it’ll be… not alphabetical. This is because of things like the stated 50-movie…

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NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE VELLA: GREEN DOVE AND KEY

Green Dove and Key are back, though now they’re a bit different. How? You’ll have to read about it in their new serial on Kindle Vella. The first three episodes are free, after which you have to pay in some nonsense thing they have, I guess. The first few chapters will also be available for my Patrons.

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NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE VELLA: GREEN DOVE AND KEY

Green Dove and Key are back, though now they’re a bit different. How? You’ll have to read about it in their new serial on Kindle Vella. The first three episodes are free, after which you have to pay in some nonsense thing they have, I guess. The first few chapters will also be available for my Patrons.

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Announcing THE CLOUDSTAR PROPHECIES: THE CAVES OF THE BANDIKA

After several long years, we’re happy to announce that the second entry in the Chronicles of the Last Planet series is finally available! The Cloudstar Prophecies: The Caves of the Bandika is now available through Amazon and features a cover by Zarzariel. If you happen to be in the Northeast Ohio area on July 15th, you can even snag a copy in person at the 3rd Annual Rock Creek Music Festival,…

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Announcing THE CLOUDSTAR PROPHECIES: THE CAVES OF THE BANDIKA

After several long years, we’re happy to announce that the second entry in the Chronicles of the Last Planet series is finally available! The Cloudstar Prophecies: The Caves of the Bandika is now available through Amazon and features a cover by Zarzariel. If you happen to be in the Northeast Ohio area on July 15th, you can even snag a copy in person at the 3rd Annual Rock Creek Music Festival,…

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Introducing Disaster People!

Disaster People is a new webcomic featuring two young people in a battle for the very existence of their world… or is it? You can read it at ComicFury to find out, but here’s the first three comics: You can keep reading it at the link above, or see them early on my Patreon!