I was told by a friend who’s already passed the somehow both meaningful and yet meaningless benchmark that is 30 years since entering this world naked and screaming that both my muscle strength and bone density would halve at midnight. I don’t believe that happened, but then again perhaps one’s mental faculties also drop in …
I recently finished The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin, the second novel in her Dreamblood duology. Perhaps that is why romance in fiction is on my mind. Without naming names, though this probably still amounts to a bit of a spoiler, it employs the age old, and by all means effective, arc of enemies …
In my last post I mentioned moving across the country for graduate school. Well, cut to over two years later and I have both graduated with a Masters in Applied Mathematics and slunk back to the corporate overlords in order to pay off the school loans I had to take. I joke but in actuality …
I recently finished moving halfway across the US for graduate school, beforehand coming to the conclusion all of my books needed to come along with me. As I trudged up and down the three flights of stairs between my apartment and the Uhaul with box after heavy box of books in my hands, the question …
I recently read the story Chisel and Chime by Alex Irvine, a short story in the January/February edition of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and two facets of the world stood out to me. First, every person was born with a magical spark that could be spent in a myriad of ways but also couldn’t be …
Welcome to the first blog post on the shiny new M. Weald website! Cue the imaginary sounding of a trumpet, the warbling of a synth, the plucking of a guitar, the beating of drums, the slapping of a bass or the sounds of a madman plinking away at whatever instrument you think best goes with …
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