We got a little comedy out of Penk’s over-gifting and his deer-in-the-headlights response to rejection on the last page. But really, all things considered, he’s taking this very well. You can barely even tell what just happened between him and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel like this kind of scene plays out a lot more often in life than it does in fiction. Some might consider it an anticlimax since we had broadly hinted Penk and Magda were a romantic possibility. But I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So-o-o… I think this is my last bit of anapestic tetrameter for the series, a rhythm used (with minor variations) in “The Night After Axemas” and “How Bandit Stole Axemas,” in mimicry of The Night Before Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the latter […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flo knew the magic words to interest me in almost any story idea were “I think we need a verse opener.” Frankly, the fact that “trolls” rhymes with “gnolls” had been striking me as some kind of missed opportunity for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every time we did one of these stories, I began by thinking “This really feels like just spinning our wheels, we’ve got more important shit to get to,” and just about every time, I ended up being glad we did […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
