Monthly Round-up!

Apr 28, 201711 min read

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Published: Apr 28, 2017

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Every month, we collect and feature some of the outstanding submissions to our gallery.

Each item is hand-picked by our admins, and presented with a small introduction to make browsing easier. Here we offer you a selection of interesting, quality work for your appreciation and encouragement.

April has come and (almost) gone and this round-up we have a pretty action-packed collection. From a monster-hunter to gargoyles and wizards, we have something to satisfy the adventurer in you.

This Round-up's Features

All In a Day's Work by somethingwitty141

A troublesome creatures is plaguing a farmstead and it's Frieda's job to hunt it down.

Written with attention to detail, somethingwitty141 introduces the Water Leaper as a creature that could indeed exist in our world. A great example of a battle scene with fantasy beastie done well.

Wings In The Night PT 1 by MercenaryBlade

"Will Fortune favour the city? Or will all fall beneath the wings of the night?"

Set in the Napoleonic Wars, this historic fantasy follows Fortune, a wandering blade as he discovers there is more to fear than the French. Written with a mind to the era and language, the first chapter of this monster-slaying story is sure to please with its action-packed intrigue - oh and gargoyles!

A Tale of Gods and Wizards - Chapter Seven by baptisttexan

Aliisa, Cabe, and August make it to Rossil—only to run intro trouble at a local hostel.

Fans of fantasy stories will love this latest chapter of 'A Tale of Gods and Wizards' following Aliisa and Cabe, a pair of escaped slaves in the company of August, a Wizard with a very liberal view on the world. Great character interaction and world-building bring this story together in a casual and enjoyable read. We look forward to seeing what happens to these three!

I write not by willyamPax

Reasons we write

An explanation of why. This short poem is well written and has a succinct form with some beautiful language, not only expressing why willyamPax writes, but why many of us seek to find in writing

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A Ghostwritten Letter to My Lost Twin Brother by Carmalain7
The Master is Not a Good Man by FragmenteDreams
Recursion by johnhmaloney - a past Round-up feature!
on florida, after the fact by successwithhonor - a past Round-up feature!
Hozan (Sadness) by Chezzy-Am
Inspecter Wolf and the Disappearing Dancers by Tobaeus
A Brave Climber's Drive by Kadreshi
X by days-be-strange
fortune bonsai by silvernium
Love through a Veil by BornWithTheSun
Where There is a River Bent by Time by justb
Moving in the Same Direction by SykCyn
the gestalt laws of grouping by scheherazades

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Recommended Reads

In Cold Blood

Thank you to MissAddledMiss for the recommendation and review.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a masterful journalistic account of the 1959 Clutter family murders in Holcomb, Kansas.

Capote's thorough investigation of the crime and the search for the perpetrators brings to life the voices of the past with a rounded view of all the major players involved. The book makes for a truly engaging read as it effortlessly blends fact and narrative.

Despite muddying the waters slightly, this non-fiction novel encourages the reader to actively consider truth and conjecture, while otherwise remaining one of the more comprehensive and accurate accounts of the case.

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willyamPax

May 30, 2017

thank you, with tears... when life gets harder, i seek help on my writes... for those who understand, its enough for my heart to move forward...