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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Ice Castle

I was once, in the late 90s and perhaps even in the early 00s, a member of a mailing list called FantasyBits. Every week or so, you were given a theme to write on — usually a single word or a small phrase — and then you had a maximum of a week to write something fantasy-related on this theme (but they were not that strict…). I usually wrote something as soon as I saw the week’s theme, so these pieces are not very good either. However, I recently found my memory stick with all my old stuff on, and thought I’d read them through and publish the ones I was most pleased with here. This is the first one, written to the theme “Ice Castle”. Except for some small spelling edits, and changes in verb tense here and there for consistency , I present it as it was written back then.

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