07 Portraits- Donnybrook
Saturday night's the night I like. Saturday night's alright.
2020-03-28 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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07 Portraits- Ariae Moonknife
Every little thing she does is magic...
2020-03-27 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jane and Amy- Buddies
I'm really having fun with these two; Jane is just beginning to learn what it means to be something other than a weapon. Meanwhile, Amy is just starting to learn to trust, again. They may have something of a rocky future ahead of them before they work out all the kinks...
2020-03-22 18:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostAwake Chapter 1, Scene 2
Jane wasn’t quite sure what to make of the girl escorting her. She considered breaking away from her at the first opportunity, but, unfortunately, Aim’s assessment had been exactly right: she was lost and she didn’t know this city. That, and she was pretty sure there wasn’t much of anything Aim could do that she couldn’t react to and stop before it became dangerous.
The dark-skinned girl spoke almost constantly, as if afraid of silence. Jane let the sound of her voice wash ove...
2020-03-21 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAwake
Chapter 1
Her first thought was that the hooded figure looked like a good bet for a free bite. You didn’t get that big without some extra cash, and the way the figure’s shoulders slumped suggested either exhaustion or low self-esteem, either of which could make a person vulnerable to a quick grift. Amy considered trying to brush by the big person, see if she could snag something from the loose pockets in the oversized jeans, but Amy’d never been parti...
2020-03-20 21:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostBLINK
This was the picture from a charity short story anthology project I did with a number of other FMG authors. The entire work along with the story can be found on Smashwords and Amazon.
The Smashwords link is Stealing Muscle.
The Amazon link is Stealing Muscle.
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I...
2020-03-19 17:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostShayna Flexing (Complete)
The complete video. This was designed to be a seamless video when looped in your video player. Enjoy!
2020-03-18 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post3/3 Shayna Flexing
The third of three installments. Let me know if you like it and think I should do more.
2020-03-18 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post2/3 Shayna Flexing
Second of three. Last piece and composite (loopable) videos tomorrow.
2020-03-17 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post1/3 Shayna Flexing
Next piece tomorrow, another the day after. I'll add a composite of the whole thing on day three, as well. If anyone has a request for another animation they'd like to see (of their OC, assuming I have it), leave a comment and let me know.
2020-03-16 22:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post08 Cold Fury
Chapter Eight
Tris is forced to come to grips with her new life. Various people begin momentous shifts in the direction their lives are taking.
November 2000
Tris angled across Regent's Park. She jammed her hands savagely into her pockets. She'd snuck out shortly after Bethany had left and she'd been walking- wandering, really- without purpose ever since. Unconsciously, she'd been avoiding cam...
01 Tyche Kicks
This is a very short, 2 second proof of concept video. Mainly, I wanted to figure out how much time and energy it would take in order to make a longer video... and I have good and bad news.
The good news is that, with the new graphics cards, I actually can render a video in a reasonable amount of time... sort of. This video is 56 frames long and took about six hours to render. It's also huge; under normal circumstances, I would never choose to render a video at 2400x2400- that ...
2020-03-15 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post07 Cold Fury
Chapter Seven
Tris finally confronts Mr. Kim while various plot-threads finally begin to draw together.
November 2000
Li Jung-Bae regarded the tall Spaniard with reptilian frigidity. “You have quite the nerve, Mr. Renaldo,” he said quietly in English, “to come to my offices to announce your failure.”
Renaldo smiled thinly. “It’s just Renaldo,” he said dryly, “no honorific....
2020-03-14 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post06 Cold Fury
Chapter Six
Tris races to rescue the man she’s supposed to kidnap from an assassin.
November, 2000
“So you think Renaldo is here to kill Kim Yong-Sook?” Jun asked worriedly.
“I don’t think he’s here to take in the sights,” Tris snapped. Her chance meeting of him in the airport was a stroke of luck. It meant that Jun had been able to get a couple candid photographs to feed to the A...
2020-03-13 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post05 Cold Fury
Chapter Five
Tris starts a new mission in a really big city and encounters an old enemy.
November, 2000
Gimpo International Airport was not as large as Heathrow, Tris noticed. In fact, it seemed a bit small for the amount of traffic running through it. Upwards of eighty thousand people wandered through this airport on a daily basis. Not terribly impressive when compared to O’Hare or LAX or s...
04 Cold Fury
Chapter Four
Tris and Bethany go to a costume party and chaos ensues…
October, 2000
It was like a ballet. Tris leapt, pirouetted, rolled and dove amongst her assailants- her partners- bouncing from one to another without so much as a loss of momentum. She had long ago abandoned any style and was now completely at home within the grace and power of her own superbly conditioned body. She wasn...
03 Cold Fury
Chapter Three
Tris learns what the traditional reward for a job well done is…
September, 1999
Devin Andersen and Susan Kalen sat in a small office overlooking St. Ermin’s Hill Road. They were on what the British amusingly referred to as the first story, apparently because buildings that didn’t have an upstairs didn’t warrant a number. A wide, wooden desk dominated the space, and the room was near...
02 Cold Fury
Chapter Two
Tris deals with a vicious criminal while coping with some distressing news.
September, 1999
“Miss McClellan, you’ve a caller waiting for you in the principal’s office,” said Mr. Worsley. Trista had to remind herself that, to everyone here, she was not Trista Magritte Boyd from Ann Arbor, MI in the U.S.A., but rather, was Trista Margorie McClellan, born in Scotland, transplanted to Arizona (A...
01 Cold Fury
Chapter One
Tris is scouted by a rather unique talent agent.
June 1998
Trista Boyd was finally free of school, with its endless rules, and she loved it. She ran her hands through her shoulder-length red hair, pulling her bangs away from her eyes as she scanned the traffic. She was still wearing her backpack with several binders and notebooks, but now bereft of actual school books. The weather was unseasonably h...
2020-03-08 23:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post07-1 Tyche Reborn
While temporarily suspended from practicing medicine, and despite her ongoing legal troubles, Tyche enrolled in several classes in criminal and metahuman law. During one of those classes, she was approached by her instructor, Captain James Jefferson, with an offer: if she would commit to being on call for the MRT, she could resume her vigilante activity, provided she called in the police and didn't leave the scene until actual cops arrived to arrest anyone she apprehended. Jefferson also admi...
2020-03-08 19:44:13 +0000 UTC View Post07 Tyche in Friendship and Focus
“If you were playing at the top of your game, I would never have scored on you,” Chao continued.
“Oh, come on,” I protested, but he waved it aside.
“No false modesty,” he admonished, “we both know it’s true. Your technique isn’t perfect, I grant you, but your speed and instinct more than make up for any rough edges. You could take me without breaking a sweat if your head was in the game.”
I gave up. “It’s… I’ve got a friend,” I said, “but I ha...
2020-03-08 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post06 Tyche in Friendship and Focus
We made another pass, and this time I managed to break off the engagement without losing another touch, but I hadn’t managed to land one, either, and I was getting frustrated. Chao inclined his head to the side, then gestured me to start the next pass.
Have you ever seen one of the old kung fu movies, the ones before they figured out to tell the actors to slow down so the cameras could capture their maneuvers? This flurry was like that. I thought I had him several times, and I poured ...
2020-03-07 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post06-1 Tyche Reborn
Tyche is a hand-to-hand fighter with few peers even without her precognitive abilities, a master of both judo and muay thai with over thirty years of experience and constant training. She has also studied other forms, over the years, and is practiced enough to have earned black belts in karate and aikijujitsu, although she still defers to several other practitioners within those schools. In addition to her formidable open hand abilities, Tyche practices extensively with most traditional marti...
2020-03-07 19:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post05 Tyche in Friendship and Focus
Even though we were only sparring for points, the outcome wasn’t really in question. None of the masters could match me one-on-one; even two or three together could never score more than a point or two before I learned their strategies and tactics and overwhelmed them. It came as a complete surprise when Chao scored two quick points in succession on the first two passes.
We squared off again and I took a deep breath.
I reviewed the action in my head. Each time, I had seen an att...
2020-03-06 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post05-1 Tyche: A New Day
Tyche's been through some changes, and life in Faerie was not easy for her. Upon returning home, she began to rethink her style of crime-fighting. Although vigilantism was often easier than having to deal with the red tape of being a bonded police officer, it also held challenges... and some of those difficulties were becoming too difficult for her to justify.
Tyche has never particularly guarded her secret identity; a function of her powers makes it difficult for anyone to accurately r...
2020-03-06 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post