Warrior Wednesday Fourth Edition 2024-01-17

Dan's collected the posts

Here we are with another Warrior Wednesday, and if you’re reading this you don’t need glasses, and thank you very much for your support and love for fantasy.

First up as always are essays, in this case another by

Tom Hyland

, who has a review of the Kull the Conqueror novelisation a great novel from the 90s, I’m glad he read and enjoyed.

Do give his review a quick read and subscribe to him.

KULL THE CONQUEROR

Now to get to the stories that you’ve all been waiting for!

AJ Sky

submitted a story with dragon in the title, and I’m a sucker for almost all dragon stories, and look forward to hers. She’s someone I’ve interacted with a few times in Notes, and always came off really kind and polite, so here’s her first contribution to our event.

Lightscript Legends Episode 1

Crann na beatha

has written a story for us also, and somehow I ended up late in seeing it (apologies) with his tale looking really cool (I mean just look at that thumbnail!) so this is obviously a shoe-in for our event!

Ridirean Naomha nan Diathan

Next up is the equally new

M. B. Heywood

whom I’ve chatted with a few times, and has got some really neat ideas, so do like you would to Mme Reid and Tom, and subscribe.

Southrons (Delfii's Song, Snippet 0)

Donn’s someone I really appreciate, he takes criticism really well, is a nice guy (very knowledgeable about the world) and has a knack for Celtic knowledge on par with I imagine M.E. Rothwell, so do subscribe to him (Donn I mean, but if you love history check out Rothwell’s

Substack

also).

Pay The Piper Call The Tune

We now have

Marco

who was inspired as much by Zelda as he was by pulp, a very interesting fellow and combo, and here’s his story.

The man with evil eyes (Iron Age Prompt for 13/12/2023)

Coming out with her third story is

Kathrine Elaine

whom I’m always excited to read the writing of, as she’s got a knack for mood and atmosphere, just as she does memorable female leads.

The Death of the Lake (1)

We then get the

The Black Knight

TM, and he’s honestly one of the funniest guys out there, do check him out, I’ll be hopefully reviewing his story this week when I have the time. He’s been a big help in expanding Warrior Wednesday & Sword & Saturday, so do be sure to sub to him, in thanks.

The League of Iron assembles

Harold Ember

has joined in a few times, and is friendly and a great lover of literature and classic fantasy, so that he always comes off as a delight to talk to, so do subscribe to him for these and likely his excellent prose (I will be reviewing one of his stories over the next week).

The Tale of Sir Knight

Redd Oscar’s always got some great stuff, and this week is no exception as he delivers with a short story that’s actually a myth from his world. Myths are magical stuff, and a favourite thing of mine to read so do check him out, and sub maybe it’ll convince him to write more myths!

Fountains, Burglary, and a Sacred Chalice

Next up is the esteemed

The Lord Otter

with his story, do check it out.

A Review of Revenant and the Tomb

Michael P. Marpaung

is an awesome writer, friendly guy who is very knowledgeable and honestly has a super-awesome

Substack

so that one cannot help but admire his dedication to his craft so do subscribe to him.

The Santara Commentaries (Book 1)

Sam Rake

is a clever guy, and the first sentence of his story really seems awesome with some great Polish seeming references with the title and Viegalf name. I really like this one already, am going to review it later next week.

Slaughter of the Szaranya

Robin George

is new and has a tale of mythology it seems which is really cool, I really like the emphasis on music here, so do check out his story ahead of me, and sub to him.

The Songbird of Targannon

TSBOL

a talented editor and clever guy by nature, has written a story dubbed ‘Children’, I hope to get to for next week also (like all these stories) and I’m very excited to read this one, as should you so if you enjoy talented fantasy writers

Substack Writers

do check him out.

Children

Monte St Aubyn

has got a hilariously titled story, and his last one was pretty good, and he took criticism really well which tells you how serious he is about his craft, so do subscribe to him and check out this one!

The Endless Stair.

Jean Marie Bauhaus

is new avec un nom francaise, so that one just knows her story is awesome just because of that (I’m partially joking), I do hope she’s also French, as I’m always keen to support my people, and even if she’s not her story looks interesting, sub to her also.

Short Story: The Box

Kay Moulton

has got an interesting story about herself and her first fantasy writing attempt, it was interesting how much it parallels the excellent Last Unicorn, so do check out her anecdote.

Jolan Hildebrandt

has got one of the coolest, craziest, funniest and yet delightful ideas ever imagined; Fantasy WRESTLING! Please let him pick up Hockey or Boxing next, just for this please do sub to him, if only to encourage him to make more of these, I gotta read this later!

MAGICAL WRESTLING ASSOCIATION

Josh Tatter

is working on some great stories at the moment, so it was thought that we might bring attention to an older of his tales, and this one is quite good. It’s one about lovers reunited (in a manner of speaking) an investigation, and of the battle of good vs evil, so all the best stuff, do check it out and subscribe to him. Trust me, his substack is a great one.

A Ranger's Reckoning

The Man Behind the Screen

a mega supporter of these events, great guy and fantastic critic and writer, has contributed generously with his support to these events time and again, along with some great stories so that this week he’s decided to pitch to people his serial-novel Castle on the Hill, do check it out and sub to his substack if you like his works.

The Castle on the Hill, Ch. 1

With an interesting title like Goblin Dreams,

Ethan Sabatella

follows in Tolkien’s footsteps in a way (Tolkien though had ‘Elf Dreams’ in some stories), and so I think that this is an idea with a lot of potential so evidently Ethan’s got imagination and some interesting ideas, check out his story and sub to him if you like it, I’ll have to read and review it for myself.

The Goblin Dreams

Here’s my addition to Warrior Wednesday’s this week, I left the paid comment thing up, and dedicated it to the paid subs I have, it is a semi-Arthuriana epic-poem detailing the conquest of a Bernician type area of England, by Artuir as he fights also to liberate the local people from the vicissitudes of the Valhol men (Saxons) of sorts. Hope you all like it.

Special thanks goes to

A.C. Cargill, Author

Maribel

Joseph Wiess

David Perlmutter

Ben Woestenburg

Kemptea

A.M. Radio

SDG Lemaître

Matthew R. Bowns

Yakubian Ape

The Chronicler

Michaela McKuen

Carl Brown

Scoot

Joshua T Calkins-Treworgy

Alexander Semenyuk

Erik Waag

radicaledward

Marco

R. H. Snow

Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️

S.E. Reid

Therese Ryan

Sharron Bassano

Do check out all of these guys and gals, subscribe to all of them for great stories, and great reading material, and hope this edition reaches even more people, and let’s keep growing Warrior Wednesday to untold heights, and keep supporting this greatest of all genres!