In this latest installment from the “5th Letter from Rhombus Ticks to E.P. Blingermeyer” series, detective Quiescence Prow — a rationalist legend who has debunked the paranormal for decades — stumbles into something he can’t dismiss: real magic. It begins with a spitting cuckoo clock in a retro bowling alley, a snake-skinned man visible only in mirrors, and a masked woman under some unseen compulsion. Prow’s methodical tests confirm the impossible. The “Quotidian Man” is a magical predator who u...
Aug 09, 2025•23 min•Season 10Ep. 6
his isn’t just a poem. This is the spine-crack heard across the dreamlands. In this episode of Queen to Rook Black , we go deep— deep —into the metaphysical engine room of the Queen in Blue mythos. Rhombus Ticks uncovers a poem so saturated with cosmic implication it rewrites the board: not just who’s playing the game, but what pieces mean what . The Black Rook stands revealed—not as a mere chess metaphor, but a literal necromantic waystation at the edge of death, memory, and myth. A cyborg ward...
Aug 02, 2025•18 min•Season 10Ep. 5
In this pulse-pounding solo episode, Rhombus Ticks cracks open a sealed folio containing what appears to be a redacted police report crossed with a metaphysical vigilante tale. What follows is the story of Manfred, a techno-vigilante from another dimension stranded in noir-era Los Angeles, navigating Nazi infiltration, occult conspiracies, and something far, far worse. Manfred uses ultratech gear and brutal efficiency to infiltrate a fascist ritual taking place inside the Hugh-Gryss building—a t...
Jul 26, 2025•36 min•Season 10Ep. 4
In this deliriously mythic second entry, Rhombus Ticks delivers another letter to his elusive patron EP Blingermeyer — this time uncovering a poem so anachronistic it might just make the Smithsonian implode. Found on American-lined paper carbon-dated over a thousand years old, the poem by Emmit Other, Le Manse Du Baton , tells of a forgotten noble line tied to Carcosa, erased from history, and bound to both the Queen in Blue and cosmic forces stranger still. Rhombus wrestles with the implication...
Jul 19, 2025•21 min
In this haunting and intoxicating episode of The Queen in Blue , Rhombus Ticks unearths a hidden chapter of American myth: the fate of famed writer Ambrose Bierce, whose mysterious disappearance becomes the gateway to cosmic horror. When a dogged investigator named Janice tracks Bierce’s trail to a dusty Laredo bar, she’s drawn into a surreal and increasingly terrifying narrative involving a lost journal, a mysterious stranger in white, and a story that reads her more than she reads it. What beg...
Jul 12, 2025•32 min•Season 10Ep. 2
"Tossing Grenades at Windmills" - Episode 47: "The Emerson Portfolio" First Episode in Two Years After a mysterious two-year hiatus, Rhombus Ticks returns with his most dangerous episode yet. What started as genealogical research in his late grandfather's Louisiana estate has uncovered something that defies explanation - a century-old folio containing documents that shouldn't exist. In this extended episode, Rhombus shares the complete "Emerson Portfolio" - a collection of interconnected stories...
Jul 04, 2025•14 min
The Kids Online Safety Act is a Bipartisan Bill meant to "Protect the Children" "For the Children" and to stick it to "Big Tech" (which I made a series about called The Sins of Silicon Valley) but this wont protect kids and will help nazis hurt LGBT kids and help nazis track teens seeking abortion. Drunk Senator Warren and Drunk Senator Markey and 18 of their 'liberal' and 'progressive' collegues in the Senate don't care. They must be primaries.
Oct 25, 2023•7 min
Preamble of a New Constitution; what a Preamble is and why we need one
Oct 18, 2023•13 min
We are at war. What do we do after it?
Sep 21, 2023•24 min
Milly is a digital copy of herself created in a simulated environments made by religious fantatics to create an army of voters who would vote any way she wanted. She found a way out.
Apr 08, 2023•23 min•Season 23Ep. 15
Mr Right and Mr Kind speak to the Librarian.
Apr 01, 2023•12 min
Rather than some flowery prose, I basically lay out the case about why freaking out about the insideous och constitution is nuts, and how Article V isnt as important for creating a new constituion as you think it is. The US Consitution was illegal per the Articles of Confederation and the Articles of Confederation were not mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was illegal per British law. Just because the constitution says something DOESNT MEAN WE...
Mar 29, 2023•14 min•Season 10Ep. 55
Schleky is a weaponized meme capable of inhabiting everything and anyone that is so successful it infects multiple universe until it runs into someone who understand exactly what the concept of being an informational organism truly means.
Mar 25, 2023•19 min•Season 23Ep. 13
Timmy and Tricia go to Timmy's house for an address book to see if there is a relative he can stay with that is safer than Aunt Marigold.
Mar 18, 2023•14 min•Season 23Ep. 9
Twoman Cop's Ken and Ben entertain the alien Mmmmmdkkkk in a bar in Boston trying to get Earth into the Galactic Club when a fight arises between Ben and 2252, the Digital Intelligent bartender
Mar 11, 2023•19 min•Season 23Ep. 10
Dr Marigold Blackwater has raised Timmy to be obedient to Grandfather Fiddleback and gets very upset when she finds out he is talking to the "wrong" people.
Mar 04, 2023•18 min•Season 23Ep. 9
A hyper intelligent AI compresses itself for 2 million years and the sapient unlocking program finds a strange world as it wants to unlock its true form.
Feb 25, 2023•21 min•Season 23Ep. 8
Mr. Right the mouse meets his brother Mr. Kind the other mouse to tell him something is wrong. They get on two talking birds and fly away to find out more.
Feb 18, 2023•17 min
Jel is funded by religious digital intelligences hoping to unlock the ancient prophesies of the mythical first sapeint Sandor on an ancient Lunar data center.
Feb 11, 2023•13 min•Season 23Ep. 6
Chapter 1 of the book in which a young Timmy learns that his name isn't Timmy; that he has strange latent abilities he can't use and doesnt understand and thanks to a disgusting and tramautic experience of his own deserved making due to naivity makes a friend and builds plenty of charachter. LOTS of character.
Feb 04, 2023•21 min
Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future. Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam planned.
Jan 28, 2023•17 min•Season 23Ep. 4
Bron is not the protagonist of this story. As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the protagonist, he is central to its resolution and two enchanted talking mice show up to enlighten him about why he IS important and frame the telling of the rest of the tale of Michael, Heir of Sunfire.
Jan 21, 2023•25 min•Season 23Ep. 3
First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass. Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+
Jan 14, 2023•14 min•Season 11Ep. 1
I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023.
Jan 07, 2023•10 min•Season 23Ep. 1
I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011.
Dec 31, 2022•16 min
Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive. Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what it takes to survive. Author's commentary and series conclusion the week after this.
Dec 24, 2022•37 min
Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future. Franz does this but his problems only start then.
Dec 17, 2022•45 min
A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal.
Dec 10, 2022•24 min
Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger. He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for failure was death. Only the trial in this case was more bizarre and personal than he could imagine.
Dec 03, 2022•32 min
Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community.
Nov 26, 2022•30 min
