Hail and Well Met, Newsletter Friends!

I’m afraid this email is merely a short note, rather than a proper edition of the newsletter. The real world has preoccupied me as of late—I’m moving twice this summer, and it’s taken up more of my time and energy than I thought it would. I’m still picking away at various WIPs in between packing, unpacking, and repacking, but it’s been slow.

That’s the brief portion of this programming note. The apologetic portion is that my most recent fic is a strange story for a very narrow audience, and requires some explanation. The short version is, Gray_Days took a two-sentence Good Omens kinkmeme prompt and spun it into a novella of rape and murder on high seas, intercut with philosophy and meticulously researched, called The Seas Incarnadine. It’s a masterful piece (if darkfic is your fare), which has spawned a universe of related works by Gray and others. And my contribution to this universe is…really bad reader-insert smut about the main villain. In my defense, I wrote it while completely burned out on my undergrad thesis, crumbling under the stress of quarantine and graduation. In my un-defense, nobody asked for this.

So, if you can’t make heads or tails of an email notification for The Souldiers Pocket Bible…that’s what that is. It probably won’t make any sense unless you read The Seas Incarnadine, and even then, I can’t make any promises.

Stay safe out there.
—unsmilingchuck