The following is the first of my Campaign Diaries, where I recap the latest game of Dungeons and Dragons that my friends and I play. This is one of my earlier recaps, which I originally wrote for my players. In the future, there’ll be more photos and “Behind the Screen” style commentary! See here for the Campaign Diaries in order, and see here for a Dungeons and Dragons introduction post! The […]
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Dungeons and Dragons – huh?!
This is an introductory post to my Campaign Diary series, which covers the adventures my friends and I experience when we play Dungeons and Dragons. You can see the first post here! Dungeons and Dragons? Isn’t that the devil worshipping thing from the ’80s? In a word? No. In a paragraph? Nope. When Dungeons and Dragons, D&D or DnD for short, first came to popularity it did indeed cause some concern amongst some uber Christian Americans. This caused the ‘Satanic Panic’ as some people were worried […]
Echoing Steps
The following piece was my second entry to the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition. The prompt for this piece was Ghost Story, a stairwell, and a burger. See this post for more! Friday night out with the girls, but Tasha decided to go home early. Normally she’d get a taxi, but the mild weather invited her to walk. She chose to take a shortcut through Templebar. Dublin’s oldest quarter was originally the entire city, first settled by raiding Vikings. Today […]
…Dance with me?
The following piece was my first entry to the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition. The prompt for this piece was Romance, electric car charging point, and a tote bag. See this post for more! Each year, on the same day, at the same time, they met. Mostly it was small talk, weather, kids, grandkids, books and plays. Sometimes about politics and the events of the day. Never about their love for each other. He crossed the city by bus. It was the 23X now, but back then it […]
NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition 2018
What is it? NYC Midnight has been running since 2002, hosting hundreds of writing competitions since. Each competition is slightly different, but all have a similar theme. Writers are put into groups. Each group gets a prompt which consists of a genre, setting, and object. Finally, each writer has until midnight to complete their entry. […]