• LitRPG,  PantherianTales

    Wolf Rising

    It was time… Unleashed, her inner-beast emerged. The wolf she kept buried deep under her bones, like pirate treasure. She shed the suburban skin taped around her like a cardboard mask. Escaped her concrete cage. And Rules: Those choke collars uncountable as leaves? Stripped from her life in a decisive leap from the old reality into the new. She landed for the first time on four paws, toes curling into the crisp, new snow. Sabled stalks swayed and crackled as she crept from the lowlands of politics and property, up the tree feathered slopes of Wolf Mountain. Seeking the snow line, she leveled up from the land of tiny paychecks…

  • CharacterBlogging,  PantherianTales,  ShadowBeings

    Why You Should Be Afraid of Your Shadow

    My character Allie is commenting on her biggest fear at Come in Character today. I thought I’d share her answer here. digits shadow / hand by CTD 2005 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Like most phobia’s mine has a medical term — hypnagogia. Sleep paralysis. Long ago it was called Old Hag’s syndrome. But if you’ve experienced what I’m talking about, then you know it’s not a condition, not a syndrome. If you’ve stared into the glowing red eyes of a shadow being, you know the paralysis comes from without and not within. If you’re like me, you probably know all there is to know about shadows.  A shadow is…