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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I've updated my webpage with links to publications that have appeared in the past few months. Give it a gander!
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The Chain Story Project has just released its latest story: Blight by Katherine Monasterio. It's FREE!
Please enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing helps so very much!) Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-twelve
Please enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing helps so very much!) Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-twelve
Free Fiction, Round Twelve — The Chain Story
This week the Chain Story Project is happy to introduce you to a brand new story from Katherine Monasterio, titled Blight . Summoned to the High Court in the Five Isles, Hazel Boncliff is tasked with...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Chain Story Project has just released its latest story: Blight by Katherine Monasterio. It's FREE!
Please enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing helps so very much!) Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-twelve
Please enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing helps so very much!) Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-twelve
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It's finally out: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #5, featuring my contribution "Staku-ra's Hoard" - in which a seaside waitress joins a crew of reprobates (her ex among them) on the hunt for a cursed treasure!
Please enjoy this piratical adventure!
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Please enjoy this piratical adventure!
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December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙♀️
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙♀️
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
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Happy new story day to me! (and for anyone who may be reading my Dirty Magick story this month - yes, it's also THAT Jórunn!)
"Blood for a Stone" by Deirdre Walker
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Blood for a Stone – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy new story day to me! (and for anyone who may be reading my Dirty Magick story this month - yes, it's also THAT Jórunn!)
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My second Ele story is live! A young, untested warrior fresh to the wild streets of New Crezbron finds herself caught between right and wrong on a night where the line between the two is blurred . . .
"Guard Duty at Pink House" by D. A. Raymond
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Guard Duty at Pink House – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My second Ele story is live! A young, untested warrior fresh to the wild streets of New Crezbron finds herself caught between right and wrong on a night where the line between the two is blurred . . .
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"We Have to Go Back" by Nathan Long
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We Have to Go Back – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"We Have to Go Back" by Nathan Long
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"Guard Duty at Pink House" by D. A. Raymond
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Guard Duty at Pink House – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Guard Duty at Pink House" by D. A. Raymond
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"Blood for a Stone" by Deirdre Walker
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Blood for a Stone – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Blood for a Stone" by Deirdre Walker
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/blood-for-a-...
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/blood-for-a-...
I've updated my webpage with links to publications that have appeared in the past few months. Give it a gander!
malcolmtnorth.carrd.co
malcolmtnorth.carrd.co
Malcolm T. North
Contact info for writer Malcolm T. North
malcolmtnorth.carrd.co
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I've updated my webpage with links to publications that have appeared in the past few months. Give it a gander!
malcolmtnorth.carrd.co
malcolmtnorth.carrd.co
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The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders.
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Free Fiction, Round Eleven — The Chain Story
This week the Chain Story Project is happy to introduce Pip Strongpaw, hero, wanderer and mouse. Please enjoy his debut tale from the pen of Bryan Young, Ice Hawk’s Aerie .
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
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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.)
chainstorycore.com
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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The Chain Story
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.)
chainstorycore.com
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
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You should listen to Starship Sofa and if you only have one episode to listen to how about one that has a story of mine in it? www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2024/03...
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You should listen to Starship Sofa and if you only have one episode to listen to how about one that has a story of mine in it? www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2024/03...
Reading: Joe Koch's “Horn, Heart, Seed.” in Baffling Magazine, July 2025. www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty....
Horn, Heart, Seed — Baffling Magazine
by Joe Koch “Hooves clattered high over the fighters’ heads and then hit the ground like a thunderclap.”
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November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reading: Joe Koch's “Horn, Heart, Seed.” in Baffling Magazine, July 2025. www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty....
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I'm hoping to turn this into an irregular series, if possible. Here is a sample entry: "No. MCCLXVII being The Temple Cylinder of King Hadansius" 3/3
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'm hoping to turn this into an irregular series, if possible. Here is a sample entry: "No. MCCLXVII being The Temple Cylinder of King Hadansius" 3/3
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 texts: "Bedlo's Book of Forgotten Writings":
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
1/3
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1/3
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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 texts: "Bedlo's Book of Forgotten Writings":
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
1/3
triapa.blogspot.com/2025/11/
1/3
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Tomorrow kicks off my serial series for @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story!
The adventures of Pip Strongpaw, last of the Great Catriders and Knight of the Forsworn Few. Part 1: Ice Hawk's Aerie
Cover by @runningcritter.bsky.social
Check www.chainstory.com tomorrow! (It's FREE!)
The adventures of Pip Strongpaw, last of the Great Catriders and Knight of the Forsworn Few. Part 1: Ice Hawk's Aerie
Cover by @runningcritter.bsky.social
Check www.chainstory.com tomorrow! (It's FREE!)
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Tomorrow kicks off my serial series for @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story!
The adventures of Pip Strongpaw, last of the Great Catriders and Knight of the Forsworn Few. Part 1: Ice Hawk's Aerie
Cover by @runningcritter.bsky.social
Check www.chainstory.com tomorrow! (It's FREE!)
The adventures of Pip Strongpaw, last of the Great Catriders and Knight of the Forsworn Few. Part 1: Ice Hawk's Aerie
Cover by @runningcritter.bsky.social
Check www.chainstory.com tomorrow! (It's FREE!)
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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.)
chainstorycore.com
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
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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
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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!
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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