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Shingles

"I like to make up crazy stories that straddle the ridiculous and the plausible, preferably within mere moments of each other." - r.e. carr

 

Shingles

 
 

G.I.R.L.: Guy in Real Life

Being trapped in a video game is cool, right?

Not if you happen to be Rob(erta) Hardlick, and the game happens to be Tales of Verdainia. Rob spends “her” days trapped in a body designed purely for aesthetics,

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G.I.R.L 2: The Author Needed More Money

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result…

Then again Rob(erta) Hardlick has never been the poster child for mental health.

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Cluck You!

J and her quarantine buddies decide to take a holiday road trip away from the pox-ridden city streets of their home. Their destination: Beaver City, a quaint hick town nestled deep in the Mid-South.

Too bad their Thanksgiving road-trip is about to take a detour to Terrorville.

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G.I.R.L 3: Girl in the Hood

Rob(erta) Hardlick, aka The Boy Named Sue, has been living the good life within the game Penultimate Phantasm XIX. She’s got her best bud Mich by her side, a Paladin friend with benefits, and enough digital fried chicken to make anyone happy. Everything is as perfect as it can be.


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G.I.R.L 4: Combat Devolved

Dammit, it’s happening all over again.

Join a cutting-edge video game, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

What they neglected to mention was that jacking your brain into a virtual reality simulation was putting your gray matter at the mercy of morons with associates degrees in game design.

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G.I.R.L 5: Endblame

My name is Rob(erta) Hardlick. I'm the biggest badass in online gaming and now I'm trying to take it to the next level, by becoming an honest to goodness superhero.

Not because the world of Virtual City Smackdown needs saving, mind you, but because my other option is to die a quiet death of domestic bliss with my oh-so-proper British wife - and that's really not my style. I swear if I have to listen to her tell me to stop tracking mob guts into the house one more time...

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