Christopher J. Priest (the artist formerly known as Jim Owsley) is one of my favorite people and favorite writers, a friend since the late-1970s when I was a writing for Marvel’s Crazy Magazine and he was the assistant editor thereof. We worked together on staff at DC Comics for a couple of years, and we wrote for one another’s editorial offices.… Read the rest
Arion
Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6! Now read on:
The demon army withdrew as the sun began to set. The soldiers of Atlantis staggered about the battlefield, giving aid to fallen comrades and dispatching the wounded among their foes.… Read the rest
Still more from this unpublished short story. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 are here:
When she rode up to the barn Khar was there to help her with the horse.… Read the rest
More from this unpublished short story. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are here:
Malasa wasn’t hungry but she knew she needed to eat, so Kahna sought out a fondly remembered inn at the foot of King’s Street.… Read the rest
More of this unpublished short story. Part 1 and Part 2 are here:
Malasa took the road east. It was half a day’s ride into the City of the Stars. Less than an hour into her journey, the spires of the City poked up from the horizon.… Read the rest
On August 8, I ran the first segment of an unpublished short story from 2002, “Passed Lives.” Here’s some more:
The blackness slid across the face of the sun and, as Malasa had promised, emerged whole and unchanged at the end.… Read the rest
Submitted to an anthology, this short story, completed in November 2002, didn’t make the final cut. Like the excerpt from “Walk Upon the Waters” posted on July 30, this is another post-comic book Arion Lord of Atlantis story (the names have been changed, of course).… Read the rest
I created a sword & sorcery comic book series for DC called Arion, Lord of Atlantis which ran from 1982 to 1985. I’ve always been particularly fond of Arion and company, which I got to write again in the ’90s, but never felt as though I’d been able to properly resolve the characters and their stories.… Read the rest
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