Fantasy and Science Fiction Writer JA Howe
Welcome to my page and my writing. Hope you'll stick around for a while.
The fantasy I write is more of tthe "high fantasy", "sword and sorcery" kind.
A good example of it is all the stories I've written (and am writing, and am going to write) about the land of Kritter. But among the Knights and Kings and Lords and Elves and whatnot, I also have creatures called bodbglines (see the story "Birds and Bodbglines" pub Mythic Circle 2003, I think it was), and I stick in other things such as the Shades, or harpies and pooka. You see I like to combine mythologies, and even more to explore the sociology of creatures, of the world in which these creatures live, and so on.
I don't write tales about Kritter in any direct serial line at the moment, but some of them do have connections to each other. Since I've done a few already and will do more, those will be marked here as "Kritter Tale" along with the story title, so you'll know if you are looking for them. I also have a fantasy tale "Mermaid on the Isle" available at ifiction.
Kritter tales are currently available.
Coming soon is my first Kritter book, "Urchins of Wenterly" (soon as I finish it)
Every so often, I do write science fiction - though it ends up in more of a spec-fic vein. I really do like to play "what if" with the information available. For instance, several years back, I wrote a series called "Cherryn Rainbow" on this zine called PariahOnline. Other things I do: baseball fan(atic), genealogy buff, bird-watcher, amateur linguist and historical reenactor. (sometimes, I even manage to do some of these at the same time).
Hopefully I've peaked your interest by now. If so, check out my writing.
"Flame in the Night Regions" in the anthology Stereo Opticon by DrolleriePress http://drolleriepress.com (2009)
Coming Soon:
"Lord of All He Surveyed" in the next issue of Mythic Circle http://www.mythsoc.org/mythic.circle/ (2009)
"The Burning Darkness" in the April 2010 issue of Bards and Sages Magazine http://www.bardsandsages.com/quarterly.html
**A Nirvana of Many Allahs from Drollerie Press -- my first book!! (and yes, it's science fiction)**
by J.A.Howe
Empowered by the face of a new dawn
The life of Willard Peterson goes on
He smiles and yawns and stretches in his bed
And muses at the outside sky so red
So cloudy - "Ah, 'twill rain today," says he
"So much the better for my beans that be."
He danced in moonlight once, now pulls on boots
And heads out for his daily walking route
He passes 'neath the shadows of the trees
Where golden flowers grow amidst the breeze
The birds sang to him as he passed them by
And raindrops pattered down on from way up high
He caught one in his palm and held it fast:
"Now, don't you melt, my dear; you're mine at last!"
For drops are really fairies, as those know
Who often wandering in Dreamland go.
He brought her home and put her on his bed
And smiled kindly "You're beautiful," he said
She blushed " - but oh, so tiny, oh so small
I fear almost to touch you again at all!"
She smiled at Willard, danced upon his floor
Passed through his legs and scurried out the door
He found her later after a long search
Upon the kitchen counter she had perched
And was inspecting all his crockery
His pots and pans and kettles curiously
"This is a spoon, and this a fork," he told her
And she held up her arms for him to hold her
He showed her all his house with much delight
And gave her broth at supper when came night
And went to sleep, and when again came dawn
His tiny lady of the rain was gone.
For she was but a raindrop after all
And melted in the sunlight of the hall.
Pablo Lennis May '98; DarkMoonRising Sept '00
