CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Death Comes in Bone is the second short story release for December 2024, and it's now available on pre-order. Releasing on December 12, 2024, this dark fantasy short story is a tale of betrayal, vengeance, and a brother's promise. What's it About? Death Comes in Bone is a dark fantasy short story concerning a n undead prince bound to life by an oath. A treacherous best friend suborned by a succubus. And a sister in peril. Can Tanag rescue his sister from Arrin’s clutches before the rage of undeath overtakes him? How Does it Start? Tanag woke as light broke into his resting place. He didn’t know how long he’d been dead, only that he’d been murdered and was still angry about it. His best friend had betrayed him, had chosen his family’s ambitions over loyalty and friendship, after all. Tanag had made a serious misjudgment of character, and he worried that it had cost his family their lives. Careful, lest he should be destroyed before he’d woken, Tanag lay still. His ...

This week’s verse moves from a science fiction verse about mining asteroids to a slightly futuristic fantasy poem about trolls and rising heroes. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Rising Knights Singing, the troll birds come from beneath the bridges of the world, swarming and screaming, hunting across the sleeping suburbs, worse than the zombie herds, that trample from the undead lands, moaning. We shut the bridge-doors down, but, ev’ry single night, they open once again, gateways of death, horror, and bloody doom, until from within us, bloodlines stirred, long dormant, but, now awake. Children, chosen by chance of birth and parentage, at first bewildered and confused, then not, rising to the challenge of a changed world,...