Minecraft, my favorite playground

I enjoy Minecraft. I’m not a very gifted builder, but love to explore the world and create routes upon which to travel. First I head out and create markers which point back towards my main settlement, then I eventually work out laying roads. Once I get to the end of my routes I push out…

Fiction Tuesday – Big Trouble

Walter stepped fully into the small examination room. “If I heard correctly, it sounds like young Jeremy here is in some Trouble, Ama. Does that mean you figured out he was Chasing the Dark out there along The Boulevard?” Ama sighed. “It seems, Old Fox, that you began your eaves-dropping a bit late this evening.”…

Fiction Tuesday – Off the Path

“I’m a what?” Ama knelt down by Jeremy, bringing her face to his seated level. “A pathfinder. Does that not seem familiar to you either?” Jeremy shook his head, frustration growing once more. “No, it doesn’t.” He then cocked his head and thought for a moment. “That stone did seem… it’s hard to describe it….

Fiction Tuesday – Restoratives

Ama directed Jeremy to sit in a plush chair in the center of a small room. As with the waiting room this space was well-lit, though Jeremy couldn’t discern what the light source was. The healer stepped over toward a table and began pulling several glass bottles off the well-stocked shelves. She muttered slightly as…

Fiction Tuesday – News at the Stable

As Jeremy passed through the gate his eyes needed a moment to adjust to the change in scenery. While the road had been quite, and quite empty, Water Gap was filled with people. People were entering an leaving what Jeremy supposed were shops. Many were laughing loudly at a street performer set up by the…

Fiction Tuesday – Welcome to the Valleys

This isn’t short fiction as much as it is the first chapter of a story which takes place in a world I’m literally building. I love playing Minecraft on my iPad, and have often wondered what the story is behind all the places I build. While the setting is based on one particular world I’ve…