Agents of the Eye and Ear

I wrote a realistic fantasy adventure about elves. I call them "fairies" as I do all the fairy folk in their fairyland. There is no airy fairy, mind you. The magic does not sparkle, zap or blast. Wizards are skillful in wizardry but are no match for warriors in a fight. There is no "ultimate power" to be had. The world does not hang in the balance easily. Heroes are uncommon and villains have responsibilities.

I was inspired by modern fantasy and the legends of old alike. Worlds of swords and magic are thrilling and fantastic to say the least.

I write fairy tales. Like Robert E. Howard (Conan) and J.R.R. Tolkien (the Lord of the Rings) mine are gritty. The swords do draw blood and the magic does require effort. The fiction has a basis in reality. Homages to the history and legends of old are throughout.

Conan is wonderful because his Hyborean Age is a believable world of survival-of-the-fittest with undercurrents of lurking horror. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are wonderful because their Middle-earth is a believable world of danger and hope caught in the maelstrom of unseen forces. Howard and Tolkien set the highest standard for the fantasy genre. I was mindful of what their works have in common.

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Beyond the Pale

I write fairy tales. My fantasy, horror and science fiction are all weird stories about strange entities. I have been asked why I never write anything “normal” or “real” or whatever else we call the mundane. My knowledge of history has begged the question why I never write historical fiction.

I am spiritual. I see the material for the thin veneer of reality that it is. My thoughts and feelings run deeper than its superficial layer. My fantasies are not whimsical. My stories and their characters are all about reality.

The soul is first and foremost in all my thoughts. Who we are before we act and what we become afterwards are all that matters.

The humans in my stories are always foolish weaklings. Most of them are nonentities who languish or perish for being witless and helpless. The few who are bold in their foolishness and resourceful in their weakness are the relevant characters. These few may die and even suffer an inglorious death but never are they tossed onto the pile of the irrelevant many.

The strange characters in my stories are either corrupted humans, not entirely human or simply not human. They are typically stronger, tougher, faster and smarter than humans. They slaughter our nonentities with ease and impunity. Only those of us beyond our paltry sum of being mortal and only human can hope to best them.

The soul, not our feral and temporal meat, is our humanity. Our imagination, not our intellect, is what enables us to see and act beyond the pale. I write fairy tales because anything less is rambling in vain.

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The Ultimate Damsel in Distress

SCREAM QUEENS are popular because they are sexy. Whether the good girl who survives or the bad girl who perishes, we relish watching them cringe and scream.

The heroine is a female protagonist as a warrior. The damsel in distress is a female protagonist as a noncombatant. It is sexy when a heroine fights. It is sexy when a damsel in distress cringes and screams. The only difference between the two sexually is the one does her thing on top.

Not long ago society was uncomfortable with the idea of heroines. The damsel in distress was considered proper. Now society is uncomfortable with the damsel in distress and the heroine is deemed proper. The mainstream comfort zone proves wavering, thus, ultimately irrelevant.

Our nature never changes. We play our silly games in the vain hope that if everyone pretends together then our nonsense will become reality. I have no use for such stupidity.

Perception is not reality. If truth was in the eye of the beholder then no one would be stupid or insane.

A young woman bound and gagged is sexy. Two girls kissing is sexy. A nubile female swaying her hips is sexy. Watching her lick anything is wonderfully maddening. The scream queen of horror is the damsel in distress of adventure. She is the girl bound and gagged or kissing another girl or dancing or licking while our tongues wag.

Fiction's damsel in distress is an archetype in many forms. The scream queen is her latest and arguably her best... because horror is all about victims.