Fiction

I write fiction in my spare time, much of which is influenced by the roleplaying games that take up the rest of my time.

Of course, writing is more interesting if you can inflict the fruits of your labours on others, so I've posted some of my fiction here on the web.

• The Tale of Laura Standing is a pseudo-autobiographical story about a young, black girl growing up in Alabama at the turn of the century. This is actually the background story for a Call of Cthulhu character in a game set during the 1920's.
• Rapture is a short piece of prose written to go with the second edition of 'Angel/Demon: The Rapture'; an expansion of Chris Blankley's original supplement for White Wolf's World of Darkness roleplaying world.
• The Tomb of Xanquipu depicts part of a scene from a Call of Cthulhu adventure set in the jungles of South America during the 1930's.
• Trip-Switch was a short story I wrote that won second prize in a Science Fiction writing competition.
• I've written some fiction based on characters from the Millennium's End roleplaying game.
  • The first of these pieces describes the Millennium's End world, and introduces the Blackeagle/Blackeagle Security and Investigations Company and the main character in these stories, young computer hacker Diane Grace Stewart.
  • The tale of Diane's violent introduction to the Blackeagle/Blackeagle organisation is told in Diane's Baptism.
  • In The Angel and the Reaper, Diane returns to London to track down a computer hacker who is trying to break into the computer systems at Blackeagle/Blackeagle.
  • Diane is kidnapped from her New York home in The Cartel Conspiracy; and as her cell-mates try to find and resuce her, time is rapidly running out.
  • One of the characters who appears in the Cartel Conspiracy is Kelli, a young Eurasian girl who is in charge of cell Lynx at the Honolulu office of Blackeagle/Blackeagle. The Jade Empress is her story.