Dave Higgins @DaveHiggins@octodon.social
Speculative-Fiction Author | Curious Mind | Purveyor of Abstruse Nuance | Cat Cushion | [en-gb] | https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com
- Jurisdiction/Location
- England
- Pronouns
- They-based or He-based
- Gender
- Provide evidences of why you're asking and I'll provide one if I think it's a relevant factor
'Millhaven's Tales of Suspense', nine tales of #mystery, #crime, and #espionage, (one of which is mine) is now available: https://www.millhavenpress.com/product-page-2/millhaven-s-tales-of-suspense-volume-1-issue-2
With a selection of cozy sleuths, hardened fighters, and hard-boiled detectives, and a touch of the less than ordinary, it's got a broad range of protagonists with get up and go.
Pleasantly surprised by The Good Place.
It's darkly comic, but also has some solid philosophical bits.
And the main cast is racially diverse without either playing to stereotype or making a thing out of not playing to stereotype.
#WeirdHookMonth Bad Habits
Demons are drawn to sin like flies to rotten fruit. Knowing this, the vice monks each deliberately seek to commit a chosen sin as often as possible so that others might be spared the attentions of evil.
#WeirdHookMonth Forever Young
The Stargrave-Mason Orgone Transductor permits courts to take energy from a defendant to literally grant a plaintiff back the amount of good life they lost. Some radicals claim this grants the young a monopoly on justice.
#WeirdHookMonth Just Deserts
The Realm of Hollowed Artistry presents to each person as their most noted achievement except with one defining feature missing. To some this is heaven, to others hell.
#WeirdHookMonth Red Meat
An ancient Danish text grants the reader the form and abilities of what they eat - but only while it is in your system. The final page, detailing how to end the power, has been torn out.
#WeirdHookMonth Traction
In dwarven culture, shortness (permitting one to fit in more tunnels) is the greatest sign of virtue. To mark each criminal as dishonoured forever, the Scant King has decreed all sentences are served under tension, making them truly a stretch.
#WeirdHookMonth Parasites
As a child, the Tyrant of Umbak was taught the virtue of hard work. Her conquests replace nobles with crafters & farmers. Now she is at your gates. Your monarch holds back the demon horde, but is that work and can you convince her it's true?
#WeirdHookMonth Hygiene
The Church of the Scour claim cleanliness is literally next to godliness. Clean-shaven, buffed until they glow, and wrapped in sealed suits, they seemed laughable - until they started stockpiling pressure washers.
#WeirdHookMonth Slime
Scutrik Mould purifies the air, rendering even the most toxic areas safe for humans. However, it only feeds on live humans; to protect an area the size of a city requires the sacrifice of one person per year.
#WeirdHookMonth Luck
The Kryne-Benthic Stochastic Oscillator turns the worst thing that could happen to you in a day into good luck. After years of saving, you finally afforded one. This morning, you lost it.
#WeirdHookMonth Gothic
Many centuries ago, the King of England offended Thor. To hold back the wrath of the sky god, the secret priests seeded the idea of complex spikes into architecture. But, as each Gothic structure wears away or is replaced, the wards weaken
#WeirdHookMonth Superstition
On the back streets of Bristol it's whispered that if you create a new superstition on Friday 13th, every time someone acts like it's true they take a little of the ill fortune that was coming your way.
#WeirdHookMonth Wealth
The last words of the Prophet Tarven were "there is but one coin of value". The Synod proclaimed coins other than the penny heretical & banned credit & barter. The war between those who build their own strength & those who hire carriers continues.
#WeirdHookMonth Powerful Liquor
The Decoction of Ptah grants a vision of a pleasant future and how to ensure it; how pleasant a future it shows depends on the material and emotional value of the ingredients destroyed in its making.
#WeirdHookMonth Darkness
Two months ago, the sky darkened. Those seeking to take advantage of the shadows were met by a wave of pale and gaunt avengers. #Vampires now live openly throughout the world, helping the needy - except in the United States.
#WeirdHookMonth Bizarre Collections
Old Man Thorpe collects the left eyes of birds. And he pays well for new ones. Last week, Mikey found a dead eagle. The left eye had burst but he needed the money, so he said he'd chance it. No one's seen Mikey since.
#WeirdHookMonth Underwater
History claims the Elemental Council ruled fairly for centuries. However, the discovery of steam power has shattered the balance. Now the Water Mages claim the domains of Fire and Air.
#WeirdHookMonth Silly Hats
The city of Boras is plagued by high winds. Winds that gust strongly enough to drag a small child into the sky never to be seen again. Yet somehow the Cult of Morbon walk the streets unaffected in their three-foot mitres.
#WeirdHookMonth Dancing
Your friend has always been slightly out of time with music. You didn't think much of it until you read an article about soldiers breaking step to avoid resonance and remembered your friend hit the beat once, the day before the great storm.
