Hello, and thank you for looking in. I use this LiveJournal mostly to post my writing, so you won't find much about my personal life here, but if you like fantasy adventure with gay protagonists that's occasionally erotic, you might find something worth reading.

The entries that contain explicit adult material are marked with an asterisk  (*).

Tales of the Tempest series (Ongoing)

Stand-alone stories

Part two of "The Secret Oasis".

 

( Two weeks later we had left winter behind. )

 

The next story is still coming. And I'm still addicted to Mabinogi, but that has little to do with the delay.

Most of it has shaped up to be more or less tolerable, but the ending just sucks. I think it needs a complete rethink and rewrite, but a sketchy kind of alternative ending has only now occurred to me. I don't want to make it any longer than it already is, which is part of the trouble, but I also don't want to end flat.

It needs a new title too, but that's minor.

I've had a few people asking, so I thought I should say something about it.

Yes, I'm still around; and yes, I'm still continuing the series. I've just found it very slow going for the past few months, but with any luck I'll have a burst of creative energy and get some work out before very long. The first draft of the story I'm currently working on, the follow-up to "Barbaric Treatment" has taken me forever, but it's almost finished. I have my doubts about it since I'm not sure I've made it very exciting, but we'll see if I can improve it in the edits.

I'm sorry for the delay, and thank you for you patience.

The conclusion of Colder than Ice, Hotter than Flame.

 

( He led us to where a gully bounded by tall, rocky cliffs forked off the valley... )

 

Part 3.

 

( The cuts on Kit’s face healed slowly as such things go for him... )

 

Part 2

( We took our leave of Wei-fu shortly after the meal... )

As promised, here's Barbaric Treatment. It's just a silly short. The time setting is a week or so following The Shadow Duke.

The humor is more evident if you're familiar with the overwrought prose of Howard's original Conan stories.

 

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( The noontide sun gleamed off Hrothgar the Northman's rippling thews... )

 

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( Afterword... )

I have made the unwise move of getting myself addicted to an MMORPG. Mabinogi is a lot of fun, but it's been interfering with my writing.

One reason I'm mentioning this is so that can tell anyone whom I've friended from my guild, who might be wondering who this weirdo is who friended them out of nowhere, that this is Chillian. For anyone who comes across this who also happens to play Mabinogi, I'm on Ruairi server, and usually channel 5.

I have the revised version of The Shadow Duke about ready to go. They're pretty minor revisions, but on a re-read I saw that Tam wasn't being as active as I wanted him to be, so I tweaked the fight scene here and there. Then I promise I'll post Barbaric Treatment, which doesn't need any real work beforehand.

My readers at DeviantArt and FictionPress have been even more patient, since I never got around to censoring The Shadow Duke to meet the TOS in those places. I did have to do some emergency surgery on the dA edition of The Rising Storm because by their new literary rules it might have been labeled child porn! (Yes, there are underage teens having non-explicit sex. Shocking.) And that was after it had been listed as a Daily Deviation. Go figure.

The middle third. This time I think I found a place to stop with suitable tension.

Edit: This is the revised version. The changes are relatively minor and no doubt have not addressed all the issues people raised, but it's a bit closer to how I had wanted it to begin with.

 

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The conclusion of Along the Forest Road.

If you've made it this far, thank you for being so patient with me. Most of my stories won't be this long now that I have our protagonists established and sent off on their adventures. The next one will be ready in a couple of weeks, and it's a short story that will go up in two parts at most. It's currently 10,250 words or so, and I hope to cut it down at least a little before I post it. After that I have one more very short story in the pipe before I need to start writing entirely new material. The one story I have in mind doesn't have much of a plot, so I hope it develops into something as I go! It's the one that I wrote the very beginning to as a response to a challenge at runaway_tales  and the working title is "Desert Jackals". But first you'll see "The Shadow Duke" followed by "Barbaric Treatment".

Triage is no fun.

 

( Read the chapter... )

 

Well, I think this may be about as good as I can make it.