Jeff Mach Writes

April 22, 2022 / Jeff's Writing

The Pleasure of the Monologue

Some have argued that the Villain’s Monologue was destroyed by the genre-breaking ideas of Mr.…

April 21, 2022 / Jeff's Writing

Universes are fragile, friable things, and ours was supposed to be doomed for quite some…

April 19, 2022 / Apocalypse

Now that we finally live in paradise on Earth, many of us are having trouble…

April 17, 2022 / Jeff's Writing

This isn’t going to be a long rant, because, this once, I’d like to strike…

April 17, 2022 / general weirdness

There’s no help for it. Once the stars grow strange, you’re wholly out of luck.…

April 16, 2022 / (unginged)

One could easily find any number of beings more formidable, overall, than a griffin. The…

March 25, 2022 / Mad Science

(From “Absinthe Heroes: The Steampunk Rock Opera”.) ANTIKYTHERA (enters): You’re no patriot, Mayor. MAYOR: I…

March 10, 2022 / Jeff's Writing

Once there was a beautiful princess whose only ambition in life was to become a…

March 9, 2022 / alternative history

We’re all familiar with the prevalence of fake Necronomicons. Indeed, if anything, it’s quite rare…

March 5, 2022 / dragons

Once upon a time, none of the humans survived, and all of the Dragons lived…