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Aug 25
Mustangs
I’ve never owned a Mustang, but the car keeps showing up in my life. An old flame owned one. She also owned–at the same time, mind you–an Austin-Healy Mark 3000. She used the Mustang for road trips but still, having a choice of sweet cars to take anywhere was doubly impressive to me; then again …
Jun 20
Taken To The Cleaners
The linen jacket I wore to the college graduation of my son, Brian, got soaked in a memorable downpour that sent both graduates and proud parents scurrying for cover. I left the jacket in my car afterwards, thinking I’d take it to the cleaners, but didn’t get around to doing that for a few days. …
Feb 21
Pass on the Cup of Dreams
Pass on the Cup of Dreams, the third novel in the Six Kingdoms series, is now out in e-book format and print. And it has a sidekick: the first edition of the 55-page Six Kingdoms Codex which contains a new, introductory story plus a glossary and backround to this world of dark fantasy. You …
Jan 17
The New Year’s Day Massacre
We were given only two days’ notice for an all-staff meeting at 10 a.m. on New Year’s Day. On the busy Eve, in waiters’ stations and at pass-windows, everyone had their take on this mysterious and heartlessly-timed gathering. Ten hours into the new year we walked into the restaurant–to tables devoid of place-settings, to stacks of …
Nov 20
How do you know when it’s love?
So it’s finally done, Pass on the Cup of Dreams, the third novel in the Six Kingdoms series, which will be published in early December in e-format and as a POD book by the wonderful folks at Lucky Bat. Or about the same time my new lucky beard will stop scratching. As a boyhood fan of the Red Sox (I …
Aug 20
World-building
I’ve spent this summer vacationing in the Six Kingdoms. Let others have their Nantucket, Yellowstone and Saratoga. I’ve been where kraken rule the seas and Erseiyrs the skies; where whitewash still brightens the walls of magnificent castles; and where you can walk along timbered roads–don’t look down!–that link villages built high in the canopy of …
May 20
Blue Peter
Remember that aptitude test we took early on in high school to find out what we’re good at? Maybe the test was a help for some, but by then I had a pretty good idea of the direction I was going because of the crocodile behind the sofa. Years before, my parents surely had no idea …
Apr 20
My 1000 acres on Mars
As if the recent Chelyabinsk meteor explosion wasn’t enough to give us a glimmer of the much larger event that wiped out the dinosaurs, now we have Stephen Hawking, the renowned astrophysicist, telling us recently that humans won’t survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our ‘fragile’ planet. Or, as the prescient Tennyson urged in …
Mar 20
The Dog Park
The Edmonds dog park is a triangular acre of sand and gravel, bounded on one side by the Burlington Northern railroad tracks, and on the other by the parking area for an adjacent waterfront park. The only side not fenced in is the seventy-five yards of pebbly beach strewn with driftwood logs. Clear days get …
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A Beast In The Ruins
A Beast In The Ruins is an 8,000-word story set in the same Six Kingdoms world as his novels The Shadow of His Wings, The Mace of Souls and Pass on the Cup of Dreams.
It begins: “Old age sometimes carries with it the urge to confess to secrets accumulated over the years. I have only one: I murdered my brother. I had no hand in his death, nor did I ask anyone else to do what I could not. I never wished him dead even after we were estranged. You may think this a riddle. It is not. I did kill him. To understand why, you must come back with me to the day he and I met the Bell Boys…”
The Six Kingdoms Codex
The Six Kingdoms Codex, is a 55-page companion volume to Bruce's fantasy novels The Shadow of His Wings, The Mace of Souls and Pass on the Cup of Dreams.
In it you’ll find a story written exclusively for the Codex; an extensive glossary and background material to the Six Kingdoms world; and a color map by cartographer Pieter Talens.