Hello, and welcome to my 2022 A to Z Challenge! For a detailed explanation of my theme this year, see my theme reveal. But basically, I am exploring classic mystery novel murder motives, by making up a victim (Sir Adam Bracegirdle Clutterbuck) and then coming up with 26 characters who… Continue reading
…when I finish it. Which will be soon! Stay tuned! Continue reading
Or, Late Again! An A-to-Zer’s Dilemma In other words, T is coming. Soon. Soonish. Probably before dawn. Certainly before U. Definitely after S, as that is in The Past. And I don’t personally have access to The Lighthouse’s time travel tech, which anyway doesn’t exist. Yet. Probably. Stay tuned!… Continue reading
Hello, fellow A-to-Zers! Um, we at Atherton’s Magic Vapour (and by “we,” what I mean is, “I”) apologize for the delay. L (a real L) is coming. But it probably won’t come before my local midnight. On the plus side: there will be maps! So stay tuned! Maps=Splendor, Total Excitement!… Continue reading
Dear (Non-WordPress) Subscribers, We at Atherton’s Magic Vapour are very sorry, but we have somehow messed up our Subscription list. We actually know exactly what we did, but we do not wish to be tedious, and the subject bores us intensely. We suspect it would be even more tedious for… Continue reading
A story of mine will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Occult Detective Quarterly. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the story features an Occult Detective (one Simon Wake). My piece will probably be in issue 3 or 4. About ODQ Occult Detective Quarterly #1 is lots of fun. I recommend it highly… Continue reading
The remarkable Hannah Givens, comic-book savant and all-round awesome person, has done me the honor of including me in a Freestyle Writing Challenge. The rules are below. My prompt was as follows: Write a scene of inconvenient emotion Here is my response: Mirth In Funeral It was perfect funeral weather.… Continue reading
W is for Witch. Mrs. Goodkind is a witch. She lives in a cottage in Yeoman’s Woods. December 30th Old Mrs. Goodkind looked towards her cottage door. She knew that quite soon she would have a visitor, though the identity of that visitor was unknown to her. She was, she… Continue reading
…And this one also has a lot of narrative power. I swear, these messages are getting closer and closer to making actual sense. Here is the full text of the message, sent by one “Hermes Birkin bags Cheap,” in response to my post E Is For… Evidence: “Night pupil issued… Continue reading
