CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

It’s happening, but it’s happening slow. Babes will be finished – most likely by year’s end. I will start to re-post the older sections here. Why? Well, two reasons. The first is that it has haunted me since I saw the setting. Always. At first the magic of the Fireborn setting , and then the challenge of writing for it, and then, finally, the story that came to mind. Always the story. I want to see the end. And, finally, Applemans, whose comments you will see on the previous posts. He, or she, is the second reason. Without Applemans, I would not have been able to even begin to justify the time to finish this story. I *might* have eventually made time for it, but it wouldn’t have been this year, as I have been very focussed on doing the “sensible” thing with university and my other writing. So, you need to thank Applemans for his, or her, encouragement, and polite insistence that the story had to be told to the end. And so do I. Thank you, Applemans. As to the rest? ...

Finders Keepers is the second short story to be found in An Anthology of Worlds . It is also available as a stand-alone short story. A single gold coin shines on the pavement, but no one except me seems to have noticed it. I watch it, hoping someone will take it and claim it as their own. Needing someone to take it. Please take it. Finders Keepers is available as part of AnAnthology of Worlds , and also as a stand-alone title at Smashwords , Kobo , Kindle , iTunes , and Nook. First Page: Finders -Keepers The two-dollar coin lay on the pavement, shining. Its golden surface gleamed beneath the sun, casting a knife-edged wedge of shadow where it touched the concrete. I sat on a bench at the bus stop and watched the coin shine. I watched the different shoes walking past it and hoped someone would take it. No one had, yet. A mother wheeling a pram paused, the front of the pram casting enough shadow to block the sun from the coin. I wondered if anyone else saw how...