Neal @ March 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE, we at Metaphorager.Net are offering the opportunity to influence the next Prosatio Silban Story (Gosh!) titled “Final Kindness,” potentially altering the course of the entire chapter (Golly!), if not the novel of which it’s a part (Wow!). Here’s how to play: Simply opine upon one of the follwing ledes (and [...]
Neal @ February 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
THESE FABLES CONNECT A NEED to tell a particular story with a near-lifelong habit of worldbuilding. They are self-contained excerpts from a picaresque novel-in-progress titled Around the Rimless Sea: Mystic Fables for Religious Misfits, and though set as fantasies, the Prosatio Silban fables are intended for anyone seeking the Divine in a day job, so [...]
Neal @ February 22, 2010 # No Comment Yet
(THIS POST ONCE CONCLUDED A three-act Prosatio Silban story posted here out of self-motivation. (Never can write without a deadline, me.) The entire eight-page story is now available in .pdf format, so print it out, kick back and enjoy the existential hijinx as Prosatio Silban’s flat tire leads him uphill into perplexity. (Afterward, you may [...]
Neal @ July 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
IN ALL THE STEAMING LANDS there are none so pious as the villagers of Leepgri. And yet, even within that island of serene certitude, Prosatio Silban found (as he often did in his vast travels) a disturbed soul.
He had parked his galleywagon a-purpose, on the edge of Leepgri’s market square closest to the local shrine. [...]
Neal @ June 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A FEW YEARS AGO, I began writing some short fantasies concerning a notable resident of the Land Beyond The Sunrise: Prosatio Silban, reluctant holyman turned freelance cook, questing for a true love he met once as a youth and never saw again. (Or so he thinks.) Six stories are completed and undergoing revision, but the [...]
