Charlie Freelander
@charliefreelander.bsky.social
Author of the Legacy of Wrath series. Volunteer at Captain Paul Watson Foundation. Small vessel engineer (currently recovering from an injury).
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Legacy of Wrath: Baldur's Gate meets Paradise Lost
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Baldur's Gate meets Paradise Lost in the Legacy of Wrath series.
A child of tainted blood, Velimir grows up hardened by suffering.
He grows into a ruthless man, plotting to plunge the world in chaos.
After his bitter downfall, he vows to escape hell and unites forces with a former sworn enemy.
A child of tainted blood, Velimir grows up hardened by suffering.
He grows into a ruthless man, plotting to plunge the world in chaos.
After his bitter downfall, he vows to escape hell and unites forces with a former sworn enemy.
Imagining a fictional abandoned tin mine in Dartmoor for my story
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Imagining a fictional abandoned tin mine in Dartmoor for my story
A haunting story about a ghost of a Roman legionary who was never released from his watch, my story the Sentinel and Bodhisattva is available in this number.
About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.
About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.
The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Summer 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A haunting story about a ghost of a Roman legionary who was never released from his watch, my story the Sentinel and Bodhisattva is available in this number.
About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.
About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.
Short story idea folder
July 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Short story idea folder
Playing a lighthouse keeper! A good opportunity to write in an inspiring environment.
July 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Playing a lighthouse keeper! A good opportunity to write in an inspiring environment.
Thinking about how waste, wear and tear of machinery and fueling/ballasting/topping the oil works at a ghostly submarine.
At least the ghosts don't crap.
At least the ghosts don't crap.
June 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thinking about how waste, wear and tear of machinery and fueling/ballasting/topping the oil works at a ghostly submarine.
At least the ghosts don't crap.
At least the ghosts don't crap.
Sights from Åland, an island group in the Baltic Sea that houses the remains of a Russian garrison and a medieval Franciscan monastery, a restored medieval castle, beautiful churches and much more. Baltic heritage FTW!
June 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sights from Åland, an island group in the Baltic Sea that houses the remains of a Russian garrison and a medieval Franciscan monastery, a restored medieval castle, beautiful churches and much more. Baltic heritage FTW!
Yay! My Finnish short story about a ghost submarine was shortlisted in a contest!
I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.
I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.
June 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yay! My Finnish short story about a ghost submarine was shortlisted in a contest!
I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.
I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.
Visby has been a Viking trading post, Hanseatic town, privateer stronghold and Danish fort.
It remains magical.
Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.
It remains magical.
Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.
May 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Visby has been a Viking trading post, Hanseatic town, privateer stronghold and Danish fort.
It remains magical.
Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.
It remains magical.
Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.
Thinking about how to make the dichotomy submarine-destroyer a cosmic allegory
April 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Thinking about how to make the dichotomy submarine-destroyer a cosmic allegory
In the Polish hotel: a military history museum and, on the menu, pig in five different ways
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
In the Polish hotel: a military history museum and, on the menu, pig in five different ways
I wonder why I find such a comfort in immersing myself in long-lost times (such as tumultuous times of ancient Rome) when I just want to turn the present off . "This, too, shall pass", maybe.
April 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I wonder why I find such a comfort in immersing myself in long-lost times (such as tumultuous times of ancient Rome) when I just want to turn the present off . "This, too, shall pass", maybe.
My protagonists are very different in many ways, but they always end up being defiant and stubborn in some way to an extreme degree, often paying a terrible price and/or acting destructive because of it. They are raw, intense and larger than life. They *refuse*.
April 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My protagonists are very different in many ways, but they always end up being defiant and stubborn in some way to an extreme degree, often paying a terrible price and/or acting destructive because of it. They are raw, intense and larger than life. They *refuse*.
Me six years ago at the Sea of Cortez, protecting the vaquita dolphins.
March 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Me six years ago at the Sea of Cortez, protecting the vaquita dolphins.
Aaand looks like I'm writing a short story featuring an elderly Pythagoras.
Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.
Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.
March 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Aaand looks like I'm writing a short story featuring an elderly Pythagoras.
Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.
Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.
OMG fuck yeah! My short story The Sentinel and Boddhisattva was accepted to be published in a magazine!
The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.
The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.
March 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
OMG fuck yeah! My short story The Sentinel and Boddhisattva was accepted to be published in a magazine!
The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.
The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.
So we are having a conversation about which dinosaur took a largest dump with my husband.
March 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So we are having a conversation about which dinosaur took a largest dump with my husband.
Thinking about how a medieval Danish knight ends up being a privateer.
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thinking about how a medieval Danish knight ends up being a privateer.
I should (re)read some classics in military/naval setting to have good examples about juggling multiple POV in a large group. Usually they have a distant omniscient narrator that doesn't deep dive into anyone's POV though. I want to jump into people's heads in my ghostly submarine on a mission story
February 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I should (re)read some classics in military/naval setting to have good examples about juggling multiple POV in a large group. Usually they have a distant omniscient narrator that doesn't deep dive into anyone's POV though. I want to jump into people's heads in my ghostly submarine on a mission story
So of course now I have an urge to write a historical novel about Mark Antony.
February 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So of course now I have an urge to write a historical novel about Mark Antony.
This aqueduct carried water to Almunecar - or Sexi Firmum Iulium as it was called in the Roman times.
February 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This aqueduct carried water to Almunecar - or Sexi Firmum Iulium as it was called in the Roman times.
Is "military ghost fiction" a genre? Because as of late, that is shaping up to be my niche!
February 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Is "military ghost fiction" a genre? Because as of late, that is shaping up to be my niche!
Can anyone recommend books about Soviet WW2 submarine crews? More focused on the operations, tactics, organisation, culture and demographics than sub technology (that info is easily available).
January 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Can anyone recommend books about Soviet WW2 submarine crews? More focused on the operations, tactics, organisation, culture and demographics than sub technology (that info is easily available).
Is it normal to be moved to tears by your own story? 😂 (Rhetorical question, I don't care if I'm normal or not).
Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.
Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.
January 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Is it normal to be moved to tears by your own story? 😂 (Rhetorical question, I don't care if I'm normal or not).
Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.
Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.
Watched the director's cut. Damn what a great movie it is and damn was it awful to serve at a submarine.
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January 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Watched the director's cut. Damn what a great movie it is and damn was it awful to serve at a submarine.
Today I'm thinking about submarines. This is for a short story I'm writing in Finnish.
January 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today I'm thinking about submarines. This is for a short story I'm writing in Finnish.