CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from a horror fantasy poem about defeating subtle evils to a science fiction verse about a race that lives within the planet's depths. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Life Within the Planet's Depths We dwell within the planet’s depths, far beneath the crust of dirt and plant and earth and rime, where the world-heart beats as slow as time, where the world-heart’s drum is steady, strong, where the world’s life-blood sings soft its song. We dwell within the planet’s depths, protected from the outer rage, protected from the rolling change, that each season brings, but our safety, it comes at a price; we are the first to sacrifice, when of danger does the world-blood sing. We dwell within the planet’s depths, rising to its

This week’s short story takes us from the science fiction tale of one rogue's attempt to save his world against long odds to another science fiction story of adventure involving Odyssey's agents, some artifacts and a very close call. Welcome to Miss Delight's Mistake . People are disappearing on the close archaeological world of Jehornak, including an Odyssey operative’s sister, but that’s not why he’s there. It seems other people have gone missing, too, people with relatives rich enough to pay Odyssey to discover exactly what is happening in the mysterious cavern known as The Ballroom. However, when things go south on the mission, can Agent Delight keep her reputation, and make sure her operative comes out alive? Miss Delight's Mistake is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: books2read.com/u/3kZpvL . You can also find Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest free short story over on her blog: kriswrites.com . Why don't you

LAST WEEK, Simone revealed that Odyssey was hiding something from her. This week, Tiger says FedExplore caught up with him. Chapter 13 Excerpt – In a Bind Hi Simone, I’m sorry things are going dark on you. I’d send you back your luck if I could, and I’d add a good measure of mine, too, but I can’t. I think I’ve used up all the luck you sent, and any luck I might have had left after escaping from two alien attacks. FedExplore caught up with me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In the meantime, you can find them on this blog, until one week after the last chapter in the last book of the series has been posted, at which point this series will be taken down, and a new series serialised on site. books2read.com/u/4Awrze books2read.com/u/mgrxdR