Pandemic Reading (What Bruce Davis is Reading)
I’m a surgeon with training in critical care and trauma, so my actual reading during the current surge in COVID cases has been limited by work and fatigue. I’m slowly working my way through The Storm Before the Storm, by Mike Duncan. It’s a non-fiction telling of the events from 146 to 78 BCE during the upheavals and Civil wars that doomed the Roman Republic and led to Julius Caesar’s rise to power. (more…)
Bruce Davis Brick Cave “Dial It to 11” Kickstarter Check In and Update
Brick Cave Author Bruce Davis checks in with Bob Nelson on the status of their current Kickstarter, and talks about why he is excited to see Platinum Magic, The Last Incarnation and The Healer’s Legacy come to audio book format.
The Dial It to 11 Kickstarter runs until July 15, 2020 and you can see it here: http://kickstarter.brickcavemedia.com
The Brick Cave Podcast Welcomes Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis
Bruce Davis and Sharon Skinner kick off their own edition of the Brick Cave Podcast with some great talk about their current project lineup, fashion of the 19th Century, COVID, the current Brick Cave Kickstarter and other rabbit holes. They also talk about the #PublishingPaidMe hash tag and movement. Bruce puts in a plug for Frigid Reads, a review site: https://frigidreads.blogspot.com/ (more…)
Bruce Davis on Facebook Live!
Join Brick Cave Author Bruce Davis for a special Facebook Live to talk about his books, the “Dial it to 11” Brick Cave Kickstarter and more! (more…)
Gold Magic Book Signing on YouTube
Brick Cave Author Bruce Davis recently hosted a virtual book signing celebrating the release of Gold Magic, the second book in the Magic Law fantasy series. Watch the video here. (more…)
Titania’s Purse, Chapter 3, by Bruce Davis
This is Chapter 3 (and conclusion) of the story Titania’s Purse.
You can read Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here
I’d promised Marie that I’d never try to see her or find the child. We knew there was no way they’d let her keep it. A Spud raising a Normie child would open too many uncomfortable questions. Besides, at seventeen and legally disabled, she had no say in what happened to the baby. Her family had handled the whole thing. Quietly, respectably, but above all secretly. (more…)
Titania’s Purse, Chapter 2, by Bruce Davis
This is Chapter 2 of the story Titania’s Purse.
You can read Chapter 1 here and Chapter 3 here
Lunch was at an out of the way diner. Not the Taproom at the Drake, but I didn’t care. The burger was good and they used real grease for the fries, not that canola crap mandated by the Health Department. I made a note of the place for attention later. (more…)
Benthic Rhapsody
Sometimes during the sleep cycle, I turn up the volume on my hydrophones and shut down my exterior lights. Phosphorescent plankton dance up and down the thermocline, ghostly wisps of blue green light that form a backdrop for the darting flashes of the angler fish and dragon eels hunting prey along the edge of the abyssal cliffs. (more…)
Titania’s Purse, Chapter 1, by Bruce Davis
This is Chapter 1 of the story Titania’s Purse.
You can read Chapter 2 here and Chapter 3 here
The morning bell jarred me out of a dream about clean sheets and hot meals. I rolled out of the bunk and slid bare feet into the plastic slippers that they gave us to wear as shoes. Clancy walked through the dorm, swinging her wooden spoon. It had a leather thong looped through a hole in the handle and she swung it from her fingertip as she looked for stragglers. (more…)