Musical stories in fantastical worlds
In 1869, Alfred Beach began construction of an underground pneumatic subway; a tube containing commuters that would be propelled by the air pressure generated by giant fans. His endeavor was challenged at every turn by then mayor of New Albion, […]
Lora giggled. It began deep within her chest and slowly quivered its way up towards her throat as she closed her eyes and desperately tried to stop it. It was happening frequently now, and she feared a moment was coming […]
Fighting a psychotically insane person can be quite difficult as your ability to reasonably predict their actions is rendered useless. You can hope that they will choose to do something ludicrously stupid thus giving you a chance to subdue them, […]
The Dwarf marched slowly and painfully through Hell. It was nothing but rocks and crags, climbing and dropping, caverns with awful scenes of torture enacted before him, horrid sounds, cries of pain and weeping, and no sense of time or […]
The day after his capture by supposed pirates, The Dwarf awoke tripping his brains out in Heaven. It was The Garden Of Earthly Delights version, as opposed to the more ambiguous Judaic or Christian versions, but since he had virtually […]
Abbas al-Sabba prided himself on being the descendent of the infamous Hassan I Sabbah, the first Grandmaster of the Assassins cult whose mountain fortress in the Alborz mountains of Persia is the stuff of legend. In fact, Abbas’ obsession with […]
Aboard the ship he was simply known as The Dwarf, mostly because often the simple nickname is the best. He was from New Albion, which he spoke of with a mix of fondness and deep bitterness, and he had purposely […]
I am now consumed with getting my fictional city of New Albion living and breathing in my head. The first song in each Act is the Narrator describing and discussing the city and the next generation of the McAlastair family. […]