CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from  a poem about a five-year-old watching her mum go to work, to a poem about the jets celebrating Australia Day. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Australia Day Jets They fled across the sky, bolts of lightning bringing their own thunder, terrifying, even in peace, when they’ve come to celebrate, not plunder. I watched them from my back step, counted three, admired their shape, arrow sharp, sleek as tigers, a sonic boom left in their wake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the first two poetry collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be released...

This week’s short story takes us from a fantasy setting where spiders are a race unto themselves to a science fiction setting where a starship pilot is lost in the warp. Welcome to The Medusa's Starman .   When the battlespike Oliver is flying is hit as he seeks shelter in the warp, life as he knows it ends. On the other side of the warp waits a new world, a new life, and whole new set of dangers, and Oliver is going to have to pick things up fast, if he is to survive. Will the lady from the caves be his salvation, or will she finish what the crash began? The Medusa's Starman (Excerpt) Oliver took the planetary descent the hard way—he lost two engines to a phaser burst, as he pushed them to warp—and then lost the other two getting the ship back out again. Battlespikes were not meant to be flown like that. The Stars knew where he’d re-emerge… or if he’d emerge at all. But the Stars were kind, and he came out of warp, like an overthrown spear. The spike...

LAST WEEK , Tiger revealed that FedExplore and Redstone had refused to evacuate the planet - and that Simone would have to hurry if she was to save her sisters. This week, Simone reveals exactly how that attempt went. Chapter 9 (Excerpt) – Empty Sorry for the delay, Tiges. Been a bit busy. We got into the complex okay… a lot more easily than we should have, and now we know why. That discussion your team leader had? Yeah, I think he was a bit late. FedExplore hasn’t been here for at least two days, and I don’t think it took that long for your last letter to get here, so… THEY’RE GONE, TIGER!!! THEY’RE GONE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, a...