CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Ducky  has just been uploaded for immediate release. It is one of my earliest pieces, and one of my very few experimental pieces. It plays with the idea of interconnectedness, from both the perspective of a story's connections with the real world and from the perspective of connections between characters and the broader elements of their world...and it is told from three perspectives What's it About? Survivors of a virus on the rampage: an analyst, his ex-, and his dead daughter in three-way communication. Can he catch up with an uncontrolled disease vector, and stop the spread in time? Where will it be available? Links to the platforms where this title is available can be found as the book goes live, at this Books2Read link:   https://books2read.com/u/mgdVlK  Please be patient - or search for the title directly on  your favorite platform.

The readings front is still running light, but I have videos in process. In the meantime, today's reading is a science-fiction take inspired by an old nursery rhyme: On the gaming front: We're the resident workshop owner and salvage diver in Critter Cove: Continuing with our taverning at Travellers Rest: Do a little house-flipping for a retired teacher and her cats: Explore some serious skeletons in a noble-woman's closet: Travel through a land ravaged by plague as we help investigate its source: And get to go hunting as a marauder in an adventure episode released a day early:

To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a .   An Introduced Pest   Written as an example of a Crapsey Type 2 cinquain, for A Year of Writing Poetry , I’ve assigned this to the May 17th entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry .   Raptors. Experiments gone badly wrong, escaped to roam a world not yet ready. Alone   Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.  

To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a .    Self-sown Apocalypse   Written on January 9, 2019, for the May 2 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry , this post-apocalyptic-themed villanelle is about the downfall of mankind.   The heavens watching from far above saw us struggle on the land below, as we fought for our lives and those we love. The stakes were high within the grove where scientists played, though they did know the heavens watched from far above   Chaining viral vectors, hand in glove that soon escaped, though we were slow to fight for our lives and those we love.   The end came swift, and our thoughts were of the way events had ebbed and flowed, the heavens watching from far above.   And mankind’s tale a story wove from brilliant thought to disaster sown, as we fought...