This is a story about a lovely girl who works retail named “Friend” and a Giant Bee named “Humphrey”, and their daily conversations on worldly observations. It is not a love story (or at least, it was not initially), but anything goes in a world of bees and honey. This ...

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In today's cast we're chatting about LOVE stories! This isn't a subject we get into much but it's a huge genre so we ...

Photo: Cover art for X-Men Legends #7 by Billy Tan

Marvel Comics is hitting comic book store bookshelves this Wednesday with its most recent issue of X-Men Legends (#7). The issue brings back fan favorites, Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee and James “Logan” Howlett (aka Wolverine), in an adventure that travels all ...

How many of you write serious/drama filled stories? Or even characters that truly suffer consequences?

I think it’s often that we, as creators and almost like parents, don’t want our kids/creations to suffer terrible consequences, but I think that’s one of the reasons that makes ...

When I was growing up in the 80s, stories that were marketed as ‘children’s' were occasionally brutal.

Characters got maimed or killed, tortured or traumatized, met with horrid ends in worlds that were anything but rosy. And this was a pattern that wasn't limited to, say, English literature ...

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Translating cultural concepts so they can be understood in a different country can be really tricky, most people never bother. Often the audience is just left to ...

Excellent news! Long-time Drunk Duck user, usedbooks, has an announcement:

usedbooks writes:

Hi, I hope you are well.

Used Books hit a milestone (those don't come too often these days), and I would be really happy to have a little nod in the newspost.

Used Books just reached 1500 ...

Normally in stories there is the hero vs the villain or the protagonist vs the antagonist. As the audience, we generally expect to root for the hero or the protagonist and hope for the villain's or antagonist's comeuppance.

But there come those times when we find ourselves rooting ...

I've had the conversation multiple times - maybe based on something I read in the past - that the
business of taking care of your money, your credit, taxes and expenses is something that was never touched on when I went to school.

Well, these have been proclamations rather than conversations ...

The Aviatrix has seen it all—or at least can recall life on Earth before the American War. During an event that involves a mysterious elderly man on a runway, the most talented Aeromancer in the city ready to fix a plane, and a couple of bandit stowaways, the Aviatrix ...