Michelle Franklin's Blog

I haven't posted to the website in some time, but since we've come to the end of the year and there is much news, I figured an update here was in order:

1) I have turned my focus toward other platforms for several reasons, the first being that I have begun doing daily language videos, and the second being that Blogger has permitted extrapolation AIs to use their platform for scraping. Because of this, I will not be posting many new stories here. All new stories henceforth will be on Patreon where...

We all feel like this at one point or another. A little moment between Karla and Aodhgan:

 

Karla sat and hugged her knees. She watched Darryn gettingon with a few of the villagers, the farmers asking him about the best wood forbuilding a fence. “Aodhgan?” said she, still watching Darryn.

Aodhgan turned. “Hrm?”

“What do you do when people are mean to you?”

 He gave her a curiouslook. “You mean when people accuse me of being a monster?”

Karla nodded and seemed distressed. “When people don...

You asked, and we answered. 

DRAGONS DON'T CELEBRATE PASSOVER is out now!

 If you enjoy funny and informative books about holidays, you can get the book here: amazon.com/dp/B0BXRDXLYZ 

As well, for those who want to read more about Darryn the Half-Orc and his friend Karla, you can join our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories

 

You asked, and we answered-- The Orc Who Saved Christmas is out right now! You can get it on Amazon, Book Depository, Ingrams, or ask your local bookstore to order it in. Enjoy the adventures of Darryn and Karla! Art by Jonathan Burrello.

Buy The Orc Who Saved Christmas HERE: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BT8SNQ5Y

 The Orc Who Saved Christmas

                Orcs did not celebrate Christmas. This was a fact, one that Darryn had heard shouted at him for much of his adult life. He was only half-Orc, however, his mother being the Orc and his father being the human who lost an unfortunate bet. There was much alcohol involved in Darryn’s conception, and even more of it when they were trying to work out which one of them was going to raise him. He looked more like his father than his mother, which was offensive...

Well, since Blogger has been deleting all the stories I keep posting for no reason, here is a fun holiday book I did with Jonathan Burrello, cartoonist for Barb and Blinky and Sal.

WEREWOLVES DON'T CELEBRATE HANUKKAH is available now worldwide! 

U.S.: https://amzn.to/3j2qVNV  

U.K. and Ireland:  https://amzn.to/3VW3Lr4

CANADA: https://amzn.to/3v6V6GF 

E.U. https://amzn.to/3uOEV0o

 Finngeal makes his momentary return:

Information was worth the risk of visiting Aith Cliath again, and though he had feelings about returning to the place where he had been imprisoned, his situation was different now. He had training and he had his wolf; no longer was he the young boy unable to fend for himself. He was now what others feared, the white ghost with the silver mane, keeper of stern looks and stone hearts, guardian of the home he once lost, and he no apprehension about seeing those ...

 More about the Barghest on Patreon:

Death happens to everyone, the only question being whether everyone knows it has happened to them or not. The God of Death did not like Myndil, because Myndil had discovered a way of reaching
the otherworld without expiring, and this annoyed him. Rules were made only to be broken consciously, and Myndil had tripped over the line of regulations and hopped back over without paying the toll. What Myndil did was not wrong, but it was obvious that he had received ...

 An addendum to the story posted HERE:

Aodhgan deserved to have children happen to him, and god, hearing his petition, thought he particularly deserved to have a girl happen. Daughters do not always happen to those who merit them most, but they must naturally belong to those who think they could never say no to them.

                They returned to the abbey and had a pleasant dinner waiting for them, the nisser coming in with fresh cream cheese and salted butter for the brown bread Sister Iarl...

Myndil's adventures take him all over Erie, but what happens when the fae send him northward?

To read the full novella, visit HERE

The people in the village were still huddled in their homes, peering out windows, waiting for the beast to go away, but even if Aodhgan should hunt enough deer or boar to keep Krampus out of their homes and in good standing with Gryla, the people in the village would only be in danger again a week hence. There was no time, however, to think of a better scheme: the rau...