narrative truth and reconciliation
“With Dr. Chen, a dangerous ex-ONI scientist, in her sights, Spartan Linda-058 and her AI companion must find a way to end the threat posed by Chen and evacuate the endangered humans in the settlement. But as the Covenant prepare to stage an assault, Linda discovers that Chen holds the key to a secret that […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #2 – Review“If the Covenant hadn’t attacked, she would just be getting out of school. Maybe meeting up with Victor to do homework and talk about his holo-film.The normal world felt like a dream, fragmented and half-forgotten.” One day, life is normal. You go to school, to work, or you have a day in and spend the […]
Read More Halo: Battle Born – On Lost Childhood and the Value of YA Literature“Sent on a covert mission without the rest of her team, Spartan Linda-058’s skills in infiltration and marksmanship are called upon to end the threat posed by a wanted scientist on a distant planet. With only an ONI AI at her side, Linda must fight through both the dregs of the Covenant and the hostility […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #1 – ReviewOver the course of this year, I have found myself getting back into the swing of writing short stories just for the fun of it. With the death knell of 2018 upon us, I thought I might as well publish one of them. The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice has long been one of my […]
Read More ‘Solving Orpheus’ – A Short LGBT+ Love Story“Cortana. It’s not over. Not yet.” Despite having done seven consecutive weeks of content, I find I still have the drive to put out more before 2018 is out! Earlier this year, I followed up my character studies of the Master Chief in the original trilogy with an in-depth examination of Halo 4 (which, incidentally, was my […]
Read More Halo 4 – Crafting a Masterpiece of CharacterIt’s been more than three years now since Halo 5: Guardians released, something I have just celebrated with my own creative response to the game – The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5. We’ve had a difficult relationship, Halo 5 and I, where its story is concerned, as many of us do… I found myself looking back […]
Read More Truth and Reconciliation – My Journey with Halo 5Here we are, at the fifth and final story of this little project. This has been a really fun exercise in mixing various critiques I’ve made of Halo 5 over the last three years with more creative expression, writing scenes I’d have loved to see and expanding on some of the ideas found throughout the campaign and […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – In Loving Memory of Squad Leader Bibjam