Garden of The Gods

Fictional Fantasies

A few flights of fancy

Images inspired by my own fiction, along with a few bits and peices that ought to have story behind them ...

Let's start with the image that started it all.

This was the first piece I ever posted to the Abmx-h. It was inspired by a passing thought that became a plot and which is now well on its way to becoming a story.

And this is how that story starts ...

I never really bought into the whole' we're punishing you by restoring you to life' bit at the end of Revelations. In my version of events Iolaus is sent back the way he is - as an Angel - with all the attendant problems that go along with being exiled from heaven.

Including trying to work out how he tells his best friend ...

I'm working on the answer!

This is another early piece which illustrates the story Bound by His Brother's Heart.

I'm not entirely sure this has caught the spirit of the story. If I ever get time, I'll go back and have another go.

I can't really say what's going on here. There's definitely a story waiting to be told, but, once I'd produced the picture, I realised I didn't have time to tell it. I've posted it as a story challenge to the Golden Apple Bards and I'm waiting to see what they come up with!

Not a serious concept! But a potential link to the best HTLJ/Buffy xover on the net. Check out The Less than Legendary Journeys site for a real treat.

A portrait of the seventh Hound of Artemis

'Hero' is the name that Artemis bestows on Iolaus at the beginning of my Chronicles of Chronos. As the only mortal Hound in her pack, the title is proving pretty hard to live up to - but then, he's never been one to be daunted by a challenge!

Gabrielle - not as an Amazon Queen, but as an Elven one.

I really have no intentions to to write a Xena/LOTR x-over. But it's fascinating to speculate what such a tale might involve ..