F&SF Stories
The Salamandress
Eochaid
Face in the Pool
RPG Anecdotes
Roleplaying Gems
Sunrise Rituals
Tea Ceremony Time Forgot
Starry Eyes for Subotai!

Welcome to my fiction page!  I have here for your enjoyment (at least I hope you enjoy them!) some of my F&SF stories, including my first attempt at horror, plus some funny anecdotes gleaned from previous game sessions and PBEMs .  

Do check them out and tell me what you think!

 
Fantasy and Science Fiction  
The Salamandress - a tale of sorcerous revenge, inspired by the style of Clark Ashton Smith.  
Eochaid the Unsleeping - a Celtic fantasy (fragment - I'm still trying to figure out how to end it!)  
The Face in the Pool - under an ancient banyan tree, two children find a black pool with the image of a face and listen to its evil promises ...  
Roleplaying Anecdotes  
Roleplaying Gems - role playing game sessions can be great occasions for wackiness.   Many's the time I or another GM had to stop running a game for a few minutes just to recover my breath - and here are some of the most memorable causes of such chaos.  
Sunrise Rituals - this uber-parody began when Patrick Ocampo, one of the players in Dennis Ching's L5R pbem, wrote a parody of one of my posts.  I parodied him back, and the exchange dissolved into this rib-cracking farce.   
The Tea Ceremony That Time Forgot - Subotai's (Gelo Bautista) tea ceremony had been languishing in the PBEM  for weeks without moving.  Bored and impatient, I decided to see if I could prod the guys into action with a little parody ...   
Starry Eyes for Subotai! - this wacky take-off from Dennis' L5R pbem took on a life all its own as the perpetrators Vic, Augs and myself vied with each other to give the rest of the players aching ribs and the GM an aching head. In this, the fourth episode, we parodied Gelo's character Subotai in the style of Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo ...