It’s Australia Day, today, and that, coming so soon after Christmas got me to thinking about what significance this sort of even might have for world building. After all, every society celebrates or commemorates something, whether those events centre around a religious festival, an event rooted in history that helps define national identity, a culturally significant day, or a personal event. Each and every one of these helps to give a society structure, and to build individual identity. They are often used to cement a society of individuals into a cohesive whole, and as such are an essential part of social fabric. And this means that a variation or replica of some or all of the events below should exist in every story that is peopled by individuals and communities: Religious Festivals: Christmas, Ramadan, Passover, and Easter are the four events that come immediately to mind, and this reflects my own cultural bias and experience. Those of you from other backgrounds will come ...
An
Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us, the third of
the Simpson Anthologies, has been released on Amazon and Smashwords. This collection
of short stories is set around the theme that not everyone who appears to be
human is human, that there are other races hiding amongst us, and that there
might be a concrete reason why legends of shapeshifters and vampires exist. An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us
is approximately 19,500 words in length and contains the previously published
short stories:
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