Malcolm T. North
@malcolm-north.bsky.social
Short-story writer of heroic fantasy and sword & sorcery. Academic posting here under my pen name. I was chaotic good in the days of 5e. | He/him.
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
The Chain Story Project just released its TENTH free fiction offering.
Head over there now and, for FREE, you can get my brand new story Blood for the River.
(Please like and share. Sharing is a HUGE help. Thank you.)
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Head over there now and, for FREE, you can get my brand new story Blood for the River.
(Please like and share. Sharing is a HUGE help. Thank you.)
chainstorycore.com
The Chain Story
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November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The latest in the Chain Story Project is a free short story by @michaelastackpole.bsky.social For information, go to: www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
(A reminder: I also have a free short story accessible through the Chain Story Project.)
(A reminder: I also have a free short story accessible through the Chain Story Project.)
Free Fiction, Round Ten — The Chain Story
For our tenth offering of free fiction, we have Michael A. Stackpole’s Blood for the River . Please enjoy.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The latest in the Chain Story Project is a free short story by @michaelastackpole.bsky.social For information, go to: www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
(A reminder: I also have a free short story accessible through the Chain Story Project.)
(A reminder: I also have a free short story accessible through the Chain Story Project.)
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In a mood.
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In a mood.
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
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Why I love sword & sorcery:
Sometimes protagonists aren't able to fix the world. Sometimes they're not even able to see the problems with it. Sometimes they're just trying to survive. Sometimes they're even part of the problem.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Why I love sword & sorcery:
I've published a short series of drabbles in the latest TRiAPA, all set within a fictitious setting of a 16th century compendium of suspicious text: "Bedlo's Book of Forgotten Writings":
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
TRIAPA
triapa.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I've published a short series of drabbles in the latest TRiAPA, all set within a fictitious setting of a 16th century compendium of suspicious text: "Bedlo's Book of Forgotten Writings":
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
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In the dead of night
New ebook, only in my Payhip store
A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories
Two reprints, two originals
payhip.com/b/rzo4b
New ebook, only in my Payhip store
A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories
Two reprints, two originals
payhip.com/b/rzo4b
A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories
Four shaman stories. Two reprints, two originals.'Ill Spirits''Spirit Writing''A Truce with Evil''A Visit from the Scythians'Together, 17000 words.'Ill Spirits' first published in The Knot Wound Round...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
In the dead of night
New ebook, only in my Payhip store
A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories
Two reprints, two originals
payhip.com/b/rzo4b
New ebook, only in my Payhip store
A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories
Two reprints, two originals
payhip.com/b/rzo4b
Honored to have a poem in the most recent Lothlórien - "The Ent's Death." lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/one-...
One Poem by Malcolm North
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Honored to have a poem in the most recent Lothlórien - "The Ent's Death." lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/one-...
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Happy Halloween! For your spooky pleasure here are five tales of two undead lovers, battling their kind along with ghosts, knights, and necromancers in a bloody romance for an age! Free on KDU!
https://amzn.to/3XzrcbJ
#booksky💙📚 #fantasybooks #fantasyhorror #undeadromance #kindleunlimited
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#booksky💙📚 #fantasybooks #fantasyhorror #undeadromance #kindleunlimited
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Happy Halloween! For your spooky pleasure here are five tales of two undead lovers, battling their kind along with ghosts, knights, and necromancers in a bloody romance for an age! Free on KDU!
https://amzn.to/3XzrcbJ
#booksky💙📚 #fantasybooks #fantasyhorror #undeadromance #kindleunlimited
https://amzn.to/3XzrcbJ
#booksky💙📚 #fantasybooks #fantasyhorror #undeadromance #kindleunlimited
To all who celebrate, from ours to yours.
#Halloween
#Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
To all who celebrate, from ours to yours.
#Halloween
#Halloween
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The October 2025 issue of S&SM, Issue 165, is now live with 4 new stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
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Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The October 2025 issue of S&SM, Issue 165, is now live with 4 new stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
Tonight I'm sipping scotch, handing out candy, and reading this:
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight I'm sipping scotch, handing out candy, and reading this:
I have a new story in latest Crimson Quill Quarterly (Vol. 8, Oct. 2025). "The Vault of the Sleeper" in the October issue of Crimson Quill Quarterly. It is the second part of a story that began in the July issue of CQQ. #HeroicFantasy #SwordsandSorcery
www.amazon.com/Crimson-Quil...
www.amazon.com/Crimson-Quil...
Crimson Quill Quarterly: Volume 8
Amazon.com: Crimson Quill Quarterly: Volume 8 eBook : Doolan, Tom, North, Malcolm, Olson, R.K., Patrick, Nik, Stevenson, C.W., Wadsworth, McKay, Whitney, L.D.: Books
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October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I have a new story in latest Crimson Quill Quarterly (Vol. 8, Oct. 2025). "The Vault of the Sleeper" in the October issue of Crimson Quill Quarterly. It is the second part of a story that began in the July issue of CQQ. #HeroicFantasy #SwordsandSorcery
www.amazon.com/Crimson-Quil...
www.amazon.com/Crimson-Quil...
Just submitted my first 2-page zine to TRiAPA. Pretty excited about it!
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just submitted my first 2-page zine to TRiAPA. Pretty excited about it!
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So the Sword & Sorcery revival in short fiction as looked at over the course of ten years: A Thread.
The baseline in 2015 was approximately 50 slots, as Swords & Sorcery did three slots a month, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly did 3-4 slots per issue (I know they had the occasional reprint).
The baseline in 2015 was approximately 50 slots, as Swords & Sorcery did three slots a month, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly did 3-4 slots per issue (I know they had the occasional reprint).
August 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So the Sword & Sorcery revival in short fiction as looked at over the course of ten years: A Thread.
The baseline in 2015 was approximately 50 slots, as Swords & Sorcery did three slots a month, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly did 3-4 slots per issue (I know they had the occasional reprint).
The baseline in 2015 was approximately 50 slots, as Swords & Sorcery did three slots a month, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly did 3-4 slots per issue (I know they had the occasional reprint).
Reading T.R. Siebert's “Knife, Lace, Prayer.” in Old Moon Quarterly, Issue 3 (Winter 2023).
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reading T.R. Siebert's “Knife, Lace, Prayer.” in Old Moon Quarterly, Issue 3 (Winter 2023).
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Augurians, this submissions period you sent us a record breaking number of pieces to consider—
Over 3500.
We are HALF WAY through processing them, and hope to have the first pass complete by early November!
Good luck, birdies 🪶🪶
Over 3500.
We are HALF WAY through processing them, and hope to have the first pass complete by early November!
Good luck, birdies 🪶🪶
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Augurians, this submissions period you sent us a record breaking number of pieces to consider—
Over 3500.
We are HALF WAY through processing them, and hope to have the first pass complete by early November!
Good luck, birdies 🪶🪶
Over 3500.
We are HALF WAY through processing them, and hope to have the first pass complete by early November!
Good luck, birdies 🪶🪶
Today, October 23rd, is the fourth annual celebration of Sword & Sorcery known as THE DAY OF MIGHT.
I plan to celebrate tonight by drinking an ale and reading Fritz Leiber's "The Sunken Land."
goodman-games.com/tftms/2021/1...
I plan to celebrate tonight by drinking an ale and reading Fritz Leiber's "The Sunken Land."
goodman-games.com/tftms/2021/1...
goodman-games.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today, October 23rd, is the fourth annual celebration of Sword & Sorcery known as THE DAY OF MIGHT.
I plan to celebrate tonight by drinking an ale and reading Fritz Leiber's "The Sunken Land."
goodman-games.com/tftms/2021/1...
I plan to celebrate tonight by drinking an ale and reading Fritz Leiber's "The Sunken Land."
goodman-games.com/tftms/2021/1...
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Book 1 Release Date! 1/27/2026
I have an official release date for book 1 of Oathbreaker, which is a professionally edited and proofread version of arc 1 of the web series. It will be released on Kindle and Audible, and narrated by Raphael Corkhill.
Pre-orders should go up a few weeks before.
I have an official release date for book 1 of Oathbreaker, which is a professionally edited and proofread version of arc 1 of the web series. It will be released on Kindle and Audible, and narrated by Raphael Corkhill.
Pre-orders should go up a few weeks before.
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Book 1 Release Date! 1/27/2026
I have an official release date for book 1 of Oathbreaker, which is a professionally edited and proofread version of arc 1 of the web series. It will be released on Kindle and Audible, and narrated by Raphael Corkhill.
Pre-orders should go up a few weeks before.
I have an official release date for book 1 of Oathbreaker, which is a professionally edited and proofread version of arc 1 of the web series. It will be released on Kindle and Audible, and narrated by Raphael Corkhill.
Pre-orders should go up a few weeks before.
Currently reading Jeffrey Sergent's “The Ring of Azra Kyrn.” published in the recent Swords & Sorcery Magazine (Issue 164, September 30, 2025).
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-ring-of-...
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-ring-of-...
The Ring of Azra Kyrn – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Currently reading Jeffrey Sergent's “The Ring of Azra Kyrn.” published in the recent Swords & Sorcery Magazine (Issue 164, September 30, 2025).
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-ring-of-...
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-ring-of-...
Now reading: Dariel Quiogue's. “The Thief of Khayr Coronnar.” Waystation (Issue 1 Spring, 2024).
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Now reading: Dariel Quiogue's. “The Thief of Khayr Coronnar.” Waystation (Issue 1 Spring, 2024).
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I listened to this last night. What a fun, clever story!
It turns out there's a brand new copy of Kaleidotrope even if you aren't into that sort of thing
October 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I listened to this last night. What a fun, clever story!
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Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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October 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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I don't often plug stuff here, but...
1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.
This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880
1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.
This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880
The Mad King - Michael A Stackpole's Ko-fi Shop
The Mad King is a sword & sorcery fantasy novella featuring Neryon, a warlock whose life is governed by the whims of fate. In this first story he enco...
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July 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I don't often plug stuff here, but...
1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.
This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880
1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.
This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880