I’ve recently begun the process of rewriting and reorganising my Realmgard Short Scenes. And with that in mind, I’ll be closing out 2025 by posting one of the new pages of scenes, rather than an individual scene each Monday.
That’s partly because there was no real rhyme or reason to them before and I posted them in the order I wrote them while doing my quarterly month-long daily writing. I’m now trying to group them by theme or character.
Also, I’m hoping in the early New Year to start rolling out audio versions of the Realmgard Short Scenes. Those will go live on my Patreon page, exclusive to paid subscribers, but will eventually get posted here, along with the occasional free preview of the audio scenes to try to get people to sign up to the Patreon.
Since the primary Realmgard Short Scene page now prioritises Kat and Dunstana, this first batch I’ve added helps flesh out the rest of the Darkstones a little.
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Kat & Dunstana
vs.
the Royal Aurorean Opera Company
Why does an opera take five hours? Why was everyone singing all the time? Why couldn’t they just talk?
Why did everybody die at the end?
Annie’s Favourite Bedtime Story
“This being The Natalian Chronicle:
Hearken to these words and know this: Between the doom of the kingdoms of Archipelago and the days of Queen Antiocha…”
The Heist of the Century
“I don’t want to go to jail!”
A Princess of Elves?
“Wait, wait, wait!” Kat exclaims to her aunt. “You’re royalty?”
Dunstana & the Philosophy Trolls
“Philosophical?” Dunstana asks. “Like how much wood woodchucks could chuck if they could chuck wood?”
Hallvard the Circle-Farer Day
“And why is it Hal…pert Circle-Guy’s day today?”
“It was originally established to commemorate the Hrimfaxi Mercantile Association getting formal approval from the Prince.”
On the Origin of Sandwiches
Art by me. © Emona Literary Services™.
“Why are they called sandwiches? They’re not made of sand!”
“Or witches.”
“I know! It’s weird! They should be called, like, bread-hugs, or something. Who thinks up these names?”
The Gold isn’t Cursed.
The Gold is the Curse.
“Dad,” Kat groans. “Sit down.”
Estelle Darkstone, Cool Mom
“Wow. Will you be my Mom?”
The full list of my October 2021 Realmgard Short Scenes, where this scene was originally posted, is here.
The master list of all my Short Scenes is here.
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