Clinton D. Harding - Fantasy Author

Author of young adult fantasy and science fiction

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Flash | Clockwork Ambush

March 17, 2017 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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retired by totorrl on DeviantArt “Clockwork Ambush” Rayna walked the streets overwhelmed by the sights and smells of a world not her own. Unfamiliar and foreign, panic rose in her chest like an overinflated balloon ready to pop. Smothering her. Making it hard for her to breathe. She stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, […]

Filed Under: Flash Tagged With: Alternate Worlds, Flash fiction, robot, Steampunk

Flash | Snatch and Grap

June 17, 2016 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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The chase by Andrei-Pervukhin on DeviantArt “Snatch and Grab” Transporting the general’s son across the plains was supposed to be the most boring duty. An easy ride. Head north toward Branton, drop off the fourteen year old brat at boarding school for the spring, then back to the front down south. He didn’t even merit more […]

Filed Under: Flash Tagged With: ambush, chase, clockwork, Flash fiction, Steampunk, vignette

Flash | “Attack of Mechopus”

May 13, 2016 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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SteamPunk Octopus by AlexBroeckel on DeviantArt “Attack of Mechopus” Benjak woke to an explosion of sound. A howling alarm whooping with urgency and finality. Saying, Get up or we all die. Everyday might bring Benjak’s death. A reality of hauling barrels of spice from the southern colonies all the way under and up the curving […]

Filed Under: Flash Tagged With: Flash fiction, mech, octopus, sea battle, Steampunk, vignette

Review | “Kinslayer” by Jay Kristoff

November 2, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Back cover tease from Goodreads: A SHATTERED EMPIRE The mad Sh?gun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The Lotus Guild conspires to renew the nation’s broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously – by endorsing a new Sh?gun who desires […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adventure, Fantasy, Japan, Jay Kristoff, Kinslayer, Lotus War, Ninja, Samurai, Steampunk, Young adult

Review | The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

September 10, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when orphaned […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: High Fantasy, Jay Kristoff, Last Stormdancer, Lotus War, Samurai, Steampunk, Stormdancer, Young adult

Review | “Stormdancer” by Jay Kristoff

January 29, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Book description from Goodreads: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far less […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adventure, Fantasy, Japanese, Kristoff, Steampunk, Stormdancer, Young adult

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Free Short Stories from Clint

Merit Badges – a short story from the Our Monsters series

Three high school teens in the woods on a Friday night… some beers… skaters with a grudge… what could go wrong? Add in a couple of genetically created … Read More...

That Little Girl

A dark short story about one man’s oversight concerning his death.  Since dying was just not part of his daily routine, the man just went on with his … Read More...

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Clinton's Bookshelf: Currently-Reading

Kinslayer
Kinslayer
by Jay Kristoff
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan

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What have I recently read?

Clinton's Bookshelf: Recently Read

Steelheart
5 of 5 stars
Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
The King's Blood
5 of 5 stars
The King's Blood
by Daniel Abraham
The Last Stormdancer
5 of 5 stars
The Last Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
All Our Yesterdays
5 of 5 stars
All Our Yesterdays
by Cristin Terrill
The Fall of Five
4 of 5 stars
The Fall of Five
by Pittacus Lore

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