CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I'm getting over a dose of the flu, so the writing has been going very slowly of late. However, words have been done, and here are a few from the short story I'm writing for the collection Tales from Odyssey and Miss Delight.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   “Your mission…” The words snapped her attention back to the briefing, and she realized just how much of Odyssey’s creature she’d become. The mission was all. The briefer continued on oblivious. “Your mission is to find the flyer and find Penny Blackworth…and to do that before the corporations of Togaresh can.” Delight frowned. What had she missed. “And why is that?” Cutter asked. Delight relaxed. If Cutter was asking then Mack’s apprentice had missed the same thing she had. “Because the flyer found the child, rescued it, and vanished into the canyons.” “But why would she do that?” Cutter continued. “From what Penny could hack of her orders, the flyer w...

Pixies, trolls and urban policing, things got interesting when the Otherworld renewed its connection to ours. A new suite of crimes sprang into existence overnight…and a new breed of officer had to be found to combat them. This volume brings together all the stories, so far published, of the officers in the Paranormal Operations Squad…and the world in which they strive to maintain the peace. Here's an extract from the twenty-fifth entry in this month's release of Pixie Dust Dreaming, the 7th collection in my Collections series, which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/mY6xvP . In Search of Pixies Started on February 8, 2014, and finished on   September 6, 2014, this piece first appeared as the 27 June entry of 365 Days of Flash Fiction , and returns us, once again, to the world of pixie dust and unicorns.   The pixies rebelled early on Sunday morning, breaking out of their cages and burning the warehouse to the ground....