Category: Curses

January 30, 2026 / cursed magic items

From The Time The Dwarves (Briefly) Served Loki

Loki, in general, prefers making mischief to making things, but when you’re being worshipped by…

November 27, 2021 / Curses

(From the classic story “Sredni Vashtar”, by Saki”. Sredni Vashtar, vengeance Lord Can’t be cajoled.…

October 28, 2021 / Curses

One of my resolutions, now that I’m both (weirdly enough) a bestselling author and a…

August 13, 2021 / Curses

I. Who can say what it was about Humans which made Great Zeus despise those…

April 24, 2021 / Curses

They told us everything was a story, and who were we to disbelieve? Stories make…

December 27, 2020 / Curses

“It’s like this,” Bud said. “From the literature, many people would have the best outcomes…

September 28, 2020 / Curses

Long before Alice was fully Alice, She was trapped inside her own memory palace, Surrounded…

September 13, 2020 / Curses

Pickle my mind in something briny, behold: a Muse that’s laser-shiny. It’s not a shrink…

August 10, 2020 / Curses

Once there was a Paladin—a paradigm, an example, a Hero—who sought a single object of…

July 17, 2020 / Curses

Once there was a Mermaid who became the slave of a Fisherman; or perhaps, it…