RORY DUNTON
Short Stories:
"Bravery is not the opposite of fear, simply the strength to fight despite it. No, the opposite of fear, that crushing feeling in the pit of your stomach that things can only get worse, is hope, knowing that things will get better."
"By way of example, he opens the case, and draws the sword, Joyeuse. As Jean looks at the sword, she realizes that Roland is right. Oh, they had gotten the hilt right, but the blade, nothing could have replicated. It was smooth steel, but shone like a faceted jewel, a hundred colours at once, changing as the light hit it in different ways, never the same colour twice.
Lacuna: A short story inspired by the stories of Cu Chullhain. Originally written as promotional material for Moraveil
"The war-drum beat of running fills my ears as I pant like the dog whose name I bear.
Emer trails along behind me, stumbling over root and stone as she is pulled along in my wake,
flame’s flickering shadow lighting our way forward. How did it come to this?"
Atonement : A character piece, about a man who made a deal.
"At least, I thought he was a man, at first, but… gods, it’s hard to describe, even now. It was like
my vision split when looking at him, one side seeing the green-eyed knight, and the other seeing an angel carved of light, with scales and horns that sprouted from his head like a crown."
Twine Games
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The Lottery: What Are the Odds?: An interactive adaptation of Shirley Jackson's short story of the same name, this work of interactive fiction features multiple perspectives from which to experience the eponymous Lottery.
""Well, I hear that she's seeing Mr. Summers! Only a year after her Doug won the lottery! Can you imagine? I mean, it's unfortunate what happened to him, but she could have at least waited a year. How disrespectful can you get? I mean really, have some loyalty, you know?"
"Man's spirit now compels me.
To tell the story of snake-haired Medusa.
So sing, traitor muse, of divine sin and mortal punishment.
Of Neptune's crime and Pallas' misplaced wrath.
Sing of the mother of Pegasus and Khrysor, whose cursed eyes sent many men to their graves.
Sing of the defiled, places and people.
Sing of power, sing of victims, sing of choices taken away."
Audio Work
The Wild Side: A piece of audio fiction about what lurks outside Man's walls, beyond the campfire of civilisation.
I first noticed it as I was turning off Chemin Draper onto Chemin Mulligan’s Ferry. I didn’t see anything but the air, it-it felt… off, somehow, thin, almost. And the eyes. It felt like there was something just beyond my field of view, watching me. Like a lot of things were watching me.