February 5, 2022 / Dark Lord Journal

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Swarm

(A very very short story.)

(Written for words, and people who enjoy/hate them.)

TO WRITERS: If you believe your pen is a light in the darkness, check to see if your quill is on fire.

TO READERS: Buy more books.

TO NON-READERS: Buy more books and give them to readers, then blackmail them when those books are banned.

TO CHARACTERS: Turns out it really WAS Lord Kensington with a Vorpal Pokey Stick in the Drawing Room using the Not Entirely Edible TARDIS to travel back and forth between…but nevermind, that’s not important right now.

TO BOOKS: I’m sorry for writing this, but if you’re going to keep me up all night, you’re going to have to get ready for the consequences.

TO CENSORS: Buy more books, it’s going to be a cold winter.

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 “Fairytales lie. Especially, especially when told by Faeries.”

— Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again

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Jeff Mach is an author, playwright, event creator, and certified Villain. You can always pick up his bestselling first novel, "There and NEVER, EVER BACK AGAIN"—or, indeed, his increasingly large selection of other peculiar books. If you'd like to talk more to Jeff, or if you're simply a Monstrous Creature yourself, stop by @darklordjournal on Twitter, or The Dark Lord Journal on Facebook.