Map

Map of an Island, loosely (by my standards…) based on an island at the southernmost tip of Norway where I spent my summers as a child. (CC: BY-SA-2.5-SE)

The Pica pica challenge continues, this time with the word “Map”. So far enforced creativity works rather well. I decided to go for a classic fantasy-look, since I had recently procured some new calligraphy pens that I wanted to try out  (also, I rather like that kind of map). I’m very pleased with the result, though of course there are things I would like to change or improve.

The map of an is loosely (by my standards…) based on the island Hidra at the southernmost tip of Norway, where I spent my summers as a child. It’s a lovely place, remarkably lush despite the dramatic geology. One of my absolute favourite places in the world. To the North of the island is a narrow strait; on the opposite side from where the small channel dug at the end of the fiord — effectively dividing the island into two islands — is the most beautiful mountain I know.

As usual, the licence is CC:BY-SA-2.5-SE, so share and enjoy!

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Laas Anginas

Another one of the early FantasyBits stories, on the theme “Ancient Temple”, I believe. As usual, only small edits have been made compared to the original, which would have been written in 1998 or so. For instance, back then I had no clue how to use a semicolon, it seems…

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Magician’s Foe

Unless I misremember, this was the first of the stories I wrote at FantasyBits, with the theme “Demons within” or something. It is meant to be a parody of some fantasy I read at the time (I forgot which), and should be read as such. As usual, some small edits in spelling, tense, word order and so on have been made, but it is otherwise as originally published on FantasyBits. I have added some footnotes when the story makes no sense…

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