Richard Bailey
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I am currently working on expanding my writing topics and exploring different areas and topics of writing. I have a personal history with a very severe form of treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
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The Gravedancer’s Waltz - Part 4
The ballroom burned with moonlight. Not firelight, not candlelight, moonlight, bright and cold and wrong. It poured in through the fractured windowpanes like liquid memory, and wherever it touched, time unraveled. The chandeliers melted upward. Tables elongated. Violin strings snapped themselves back into tune, and the waltz played with aching clarity, notes like blades.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Chapters
5‑Minute Daily Micro‑Acts That Supercharge Joy
The Power of Small Moments Happiness often feels like a far-off goal, something to chase after a better job, deeper relationships, or more money. But joy doesn’t always arrive in grand, sweeping moments. Sometimes, it sneaks in quietly through brief, intentional actions. These are micro-acts, tiny practices, each taking five minutes or less, that can shift your emotional state and rewire your mind for greater joy.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Longevity
The Gravedancer’s Waltz Part - 3
A thin veil of dusk laced the estate, though time’s rhythm had already begun to stutter. Elira stood alone in the music room, her fingers brushing the spines of abandoned scores. Each parchment pulsed faintly with residual magic—inked not with notes but sigils. These were not mortal compositions. They were fragments of memory, twisted and set to melody. When she whispered a note aloud, a chandelier above her flickered in time.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Chapters
The Gravedancer’s Waltz Part - 2
The clock in the east wing struck midnight, though no one had wound it for centuries. A hush fell over the cursed estate, broken only by the soft strains of violin music that rose not from instruments, but from the walls themselves, echoes of a party that never ended. The ballroom lit from within like a lantern, casting golden light into the frostbitten gardens where no blooms dared grow.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Chapters
Monster Hunter: Wilds Weapon Tier List – Best Builds Ranked
Monster Hunter: Wilds pushes the series’ formula to new heights, with more monsters, deeper combat, and sprawling biomes that demand adaptability. In this ever-evolving ecosystem, the right weapon isn't just preference, it’s survival.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Gamers
The Gravedancer’s Waltz Part - 1
The forest grew too still. Even the wind held its breath as the trio stepped beyond the last line of trees and beheld the forgotten ruin of Valemire Estate. Moonlight glazed the crumbling spires, and the ivy-strangled balconies jutted like bones from a rotted corpse. The manor stood silent on a hill of frost-hardened grass, its many windows aglow with flickering gold light that could not, should not, exist.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Chapters
The Ember and the Crown - Part 5
The false Queen's body hadn’t yet cooled when the first birdsong of dawn touched the cracked windows of the throne hall. The scent of sorcery, ozone, blood, scorched vellum, still clung to the air like a storm that refused to pass. Light broke through fractured glass high above, casting shards of gold and red across the ruined marble floor, where Elira knelt with her fingers brushing the ashes of the broken glamour sigil.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Chapters
Monster Hunter: Wilds Biomes Guide – Full Map Breakdown
When you step into Monster Hunter: Wilds, you're not just entering another monster-infested hunting ground, but venturing into a living, breathing ecosystem. This isn’t just a collection of maps. It’s a seamless world where terrain and climate play just as crucial a role as your weapon choice.
By Richard Bailey8 months ago in Gamers
