September 2018 – Tales of Fascination

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018Everything Else

Welcome Home Portal Fantasy Traveler

A new trend in fantasy is dealing with the aftereffects of visiting another world and then returning home. It’s no longer Edmund Pensieve’s exclamation of “Oh, I forgot my torch in Narnia!” The movie, Prince Caspian, dealt with this phenomena briefly at the beginning with Susan’s character. Wonderfully acted, the […]

September 14, 2018September 14, 2018Everything Else

Modi Ind0rum

Modi Ind0rum is an adult mystery suspense novel by Karma Lei Angelo, the first in a series. In it, a new detective, Ameena Jardine (AJ), former civil engineer turned geomorphologist, is called in to investigate a potential murder on September 2019. When she investigates the corpse, an overdosed drug user, nothing […]

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018Everything Else

The Lucifer Ego

The Lucifer Ego is an adult novel by author T. M. Doran. Full disclosure — I am the author’s brother so I won’t rate it or extol it as if I were a disinterested party. You wouldn’t believe me no matter what I write, but clearly I think highly of the […]

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018Everything Else

In Defense of Maligned Fairy Tale Characters

Fairytale characters get a bad rap. The heroes and heroines are looked at as weak, sexist, fetish-minded, duplicitous, and superficial. The current trend is to glorify the villains in these stories because, as the saying goes, the villains are the most interesting characters. Interesting, maybe, but I think people give […]

Tales of Fascination

Jim Doran

Month: September 2018

Welcome Home Portal Fantasy Traveler

Modi Ind0rum

The Lucifer Ego

In Defense of Maligned Fairy Tale Characters