The Ember Lights

Hey my Travellers and Fire Light Wanderers it's been a while but I'm currently working on the next campfire story titled Recon which is about a man on a lonely planet coping with his isolation, but I wanted to give you guys a glimpse of what's to come. As you know Volume Two has already begun with the Titan Story Sky of Thunder which expands the world of Gigarrah and the Mega-Fauna Division, the rest of Volume Two will have run ins with Death, a robot just trying to survive and on a lighter note there will be a wedding...with a twist. Passed Volume Two however is a mixture of wonderment, heartbreak and chaos with not only the coming of Volumes Three and Four but I'm working on a special project which I has been something that will be a twenty part short story event. The project is called TOMB KNIGHT (with capitals for emphasis) it's a horror story which is utterly bonkers and very, very dark but I've had so much fun creating it, it also has a link to a previ...

I completely forgot to mention that The Ember Lights now has a twitter page, so weary travellers and firelight wanderers come join and follow for story updates and post on Twitter at the page @TheEmberLights

It’s 2019 the year we’re supposed to be in flying cars hunting down human looking robots whilst looking like Han Solo in a bleak dystopian future (hopefully some will get the Blade Runner references), so with a new year comes brand new things. Thank you to everyone who has found this blog and has read these stories I’ve looked at the statistics and there have been several logins from all around the world, it really means a lot to me this has been completely alien to me to make this stuff public but I’m loving it, right last year was the release of The Expedition, Gigarrah, The Edge, Red Deer and Gigarrah: Aftermath, these tales are part of what I’m calling VOLUME ONE: MONSTERS IN THE DARK. So by having a Volume One you know what that means?... Prepare for the tales of Volume Two which begins with the Sky of Thunder (A Titan Story) Look forward to seeing you all around the campfire. Martyn Sudlow-McKay

From here around the camp fire I would like to say Merry Christmas or have a brilliant Winter holiday to those of other faiths and religions. But to everyone have a wonderful time spent with friends, families and those who you love and cherish and have your own wonderful adventures to make your own stories to tell after Winter is over, because some of the best tales told are from those that we live ourselves. So from here at The Ember Lights have a Merry Christmas and a brilliant New Year much love and big bear hugs to you all. Martyn Sudlow-McKay

Since I was a kid writing out the plots of stories has been something of a hobby of mine there has never been an intension for them to be published or for them to be read by other people, it’s just been fun to create all these different types of characters, worlds and stories ranging from the emotional life of someone coping with loss and mental illness to epic journeys through the vast openness of space. But recently I’ve toyed with an idea, back when I was a kid, apparently one thing that I had a bit of a knack for was writing short stories I remember two in particular both of them were ghost stories, one was about a man haunted by the ghost of his dead wife which was titled Eleanor and the second one was about a haunted hotel I can’t remember the name of that one, but I do remember that the teachers thought that they were good although I was about fourteen at the time so they probably had to be more positive with a child than a now fully grown adult. A few years later I wrote ...