CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from a Christmas acrostic about Santa's Homecoming to a cautionary poem about hopes for the New Year. It is taken from Another 365 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hopes for the New Year Happy New Year! My head is exploding. I drank all the punch and my mind is eroding, or is it that I had red wine and champers, to go with a dinner that came from a hamper as we picnicked away up on the hill watching the fireworks from the sky earthward spill Or maybe it was the beer and the pasties I ate for my lunch while I got ready to party for New Year’s Eve is bigger than Christmas as we stay up ‘til midnight and to hell with the aftermath! Happy New Year My head is exploding My hopes riding high, drowning out my forboding that last year was hard, the year before was mu...

This week’s short story takes us from an urban fantasy setting where a trapped soul seeks freedom to a short piece of science fiction adventure. Welcome to The Depredides Dance . All I had to do was disappear. That was it: disappear and stay out of sight. Hard enough with Abs running an auction for the last location she left me, but then I poked the Depredides communications network—and everything else looked downright easy… I’m not even sure there is a way out of this… The Depredides Dance is a stand-alone short story set in the Odyssey universe. However, if you’re into reading things in order, it tells the story of what happened to Cutter after the end of Mack ‘n’ Me: Origins , and thus forms story 1-1 of the Mack ‘n’ Me ‘n’ Odyssey series. NOTE: The main character swears like a sailor, and the support cast aren’t much better. If swears bother you, this this story may not be to your taste. The Depredides Dance is available as a stand-alon...

LAST WEEK, Simone was still unimpressed - with Tiger, her parents, and with Odyssey. This week, Tiger reveals he knows where Simone's parents are, and asks her not to be mad. Chapter 4 (Excerpt) – Family Hi Simone, I’m sorry. Your email arrived a little bit late. I might have tried waiting, if it had come sooner. Yes, no matter how much I need to be down with the settlement, and no matter how mad Odyssey were going to be with me. I would have tried. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...