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The Brothers Krynn

Aug 09, 2025

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Lives of Velnin is now on sale and with a prequel story so do support

Brian Heming

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Brian Heming - author and pulp fiction fan

The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire now for sale! Also, a prequel story!

The Lives of Velnin: THE DARK EMPIRE is available on Amazon today! eBook (free with Kindle Unlimited) Paperback. By the way, you can now post Amazon reviews of it—if you've enjoyed the story so far, I would be very grateful if you post a review and tell others! Anyway, in celebration, I thought I'd write out a quick prequel story that's been kicking rou…

18 hours ago · Brian Heming

ATEN_DNAR

is a new fellow and a great one, check out his Master of the Three Blades!

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The Master of the Three Blades

The broadsword was the tool for the job: a solid blade, a hand’s breadth thick, its dark iron battered and scratched from a hundred battles and counting…

2 days ago · ATEN_DNAR

Ethan Slusarski

one of the rising greats of our time has this second part to his great tale The Last Hunt!

E.C. Slusarski, Writer

The Last Hunt | Part 2 of 3

Part 1…

a day ago · Ethan Slusarski

Kathrine Elaine

the mistress of the macabre returns with her 25th chapter to her grand epic One Hundred Refusals!

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One Hundred refusals (25)

Previously…Chapter 24…

a day ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Kathrine Elaine

Kailani B.

is a great essayist full of charm and here she is revisiting the finest zombie movies ever made in one of the best essays ever written!

Damsel in the Library

Revisiting the Glory Days of Pirates of the Caribbean

Not to be all, “Where did all the good adventure movies go?” but…where did they go…

2 days ago · 9 likes · 7 comments · Kailani B.

Devils’ in the Tall Grass is the newest of the Pearldiver’s great adventures with this great pirate story written by the scurviest writer who ever flew the jolly-rancher!

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Tales of Calamity and Triumph

Devils in the Tall Grass - The Pearldiver's Adventures #7

The adventure bug still has its mandibles in me, so how about we go another round with Captain Molo and his band? This is the seventh entry in The Pearldiver’s Adventures, and the earliest of Molo’s recounting: “Devils in the Tall Grass…

a day ago · 2 likes · The Man Behind the Screen

Gall is the newest chapter in

MaKenna Grace

the Mistress of Micro-Fiction’s great micro-tales.

Donn Harper Jr.

does what he does best herewith his epic song Aeron’s Rage and create perfection from nothing.

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Aerons Rage

a day ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Donn Harper Jr.

Eachann and Connor return in this epic tale Ru’s Cairn! Written by the eminent scholar

Ethan Sabatella

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Ru's Cairn

After failing to slay the old, bloodthirsty god of the Selkies, Eachann and Connor return to the village to prevent it from taking any more lives. Though it seems un-killable, the secret to its doom may rest in the hands of the dead…

a day ago · 2 likes

Mercedes de Santiago

the finest of the geniuses of Spain returns with this epic tale the Attack on the Castle of the Ten Towers! Which doesn’t just sound awesome but really is.