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REALITY SKIMMING PRESs
Reality Skimming Blog
A #SlowCulture project. Come fly with us.
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Story: Story installments set in the Okal Rel Universe
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Lore: Background ref, art, etc. for the Universe
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Journey: Creative history, artifacts, connections
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Reality Skimming: Everything else
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Golden Souls 01 of 30
A stranger is coming to Dee Manor. Princess Dela tightened plumb hands on her book of verse as she stared out of the irregularly cut...
Lynda
Oct 1, 20215 min read
Golden Souls 1999 / 2012
Some novellas existed even before the #okalrel saga books began coming out. Golden Souls was first written by Lynda Williams c. 1999, and...
Lynda
Sep 30, 20211 min read
Death in the Underdocks - Week of Sept 27, 2021
Suspect in hand Braz and Tess have a run in Braz watched Esa studying the body, feeling personally useless. "Got a witness, m'lord," Taff...
Lynda
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Grandmother Rule
Cultural relativism has a strong appeal for my sense of justice. But I could never entirely get past a gut-instinct some things are just...
Lynda
Sep 27, 20211 min read
The best of times, the worst of times ...
We know more than ever but stand on the brink of disaster. Space science is serving up new mysteries, with more players in the game and...
Lynda
Sep 26, 20212 min read
#slowculture and #okalrel
When my friend, the talented and successful Tracy Cooper-Posey of Stories Rule, found my Slow Culture article online, she asked if her...
Lynda
Aug 18, 20212 min read
Self-Evolved Limited's Logo
#okalrel novella The Lorel Experiment covers the start of Self-Evolved Limited, the company whose products became known as Sevolites...
Lynda
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Death in the Underdocks - Week of Aug 16, 2021
DRAFT SCENE from a work in progress: The kidnapped child. Okar only half-understood the talking noise made by his captors. He spoke the...
Lynda
Aug 16, 20213 min read
Leonid re-reading the Okal Rel Saga
Discovering this facebook post by Leonid Korodogski made my day Aug 13, 2021. Proud to know the saga inspires quality people to read it...
Lynda
Aug 13, 20211 min read
Friday Journal Aug 13, 2021
If I was incubating the Okal Rel Saga today, it would feature heroes overcoming the tragedy of the commons: CO2 emissions, plastic...
Lynda
Aug 13, 20212 min read
Death in the Underdocks - Week of Aug 9, 2021
Character study: Braz and Sergeant Taff Braz of Monitum Braz, on the left, is a Monatese nobleborn. I'm thinking SeniorLord which is top...
Lynda
Aug 12, 20212 min read
Friday Journal Aug 6, 2021
One face of #slowculture is declining to engage in a losing proposition of pitching pennies at the moon in favor of redefining the turf....
Lynda
Aug 6, 20211 min read
Lorel Sevolites
Court Sevolites of the Okal Rel Saga era are either in awe of or highly suspicious of Lorels. There is a Brown Hearth, reserved for their...
Lynda
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Death in the Underdocks - Week of Aug 2, 2021
DRAFT SCENE from a work in progress: Finding the first body "See, didn't I tell you, m'lord?" Sergeant Taff gave an expansive gesture...
Lynda
Aug 4, 20212 min read
Polkadot-based blockchains and Reetion arbiters
Following up on an investment interest in tokens.com led me to discover a connection between blockchain developments and my vision of...
Lynda
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Friday Journal Jul 30, 2021
I started capturing screenshots of myself on zoom meetings with the notion they might be a great way to generate a collection of pictures...
Lynda
Jul 30, 20211 min read
Approaching relship
This is what a relship "looks like" coming towards you. You'd see it on your ship's telemetry provided you are also reality skimming. It...
Lynda
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Conscious of my own mortality ... in 2001!
I've congratulated myself on living "the now" and getting on with it as if this was something I only recently discovered. I was therefore...
Lynda
Jul 28, 20211 min read
#okalrel hashtag
I was looking for hashtags in use when came across tagdef.com for the first time, and registered #slowculture ... then I looked for...
Lynda
Jul 27, 20211 min read
Death in the Underdocks
Meet Jess of the -- kinda police -- force (I want to call it the Jessforce but does that mean I'd have to change her name? ) from Bartrop...
Lynda
Jul 26, 20211 min read
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