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A young man with a troublesome companion must confront his fears and venture up a mountain to learn whether he is gifted or simply insane.
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The son of a shrine's head priest sneaks into the Forbidden Hall to catch a glimpse of the kami enshrined there, but what he finds is and isn't what he expected.
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A young girl from the frigid north runs away from her village with her baby brother to try and cure him of his curse. What she finds changes her forever.
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A young princess and her caretaker sail around a bay of pine-covered islands collecting lacquered eggs. But the princess's older brother – and propriety – obstruct her chances of winning the game.
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A precocious boy must confront a river yōkai to save his three friends from certain death.
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In the near future, a man with terminal cancer turns to a controversial doctor for a chance at life after death.
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READ THE SCROLLWeekly Reflection #1
This week was a lot of building. Here I reflect on what I did and what I didn't.
Building a Writing Box
Here I share how I built my own distraction-free writing environment, what is commonly called a "Write Box."
Greetings, Adventurer
The site is live. Here's what I'm planning to do with it and why.
GRIMOIRE (Generic Rule Implementation Model for Omniversal Interactive Roleplaying Engines) provides a declarative YAML-based specification format for encoding Tabletop RPG system rules.
A Python library for flexible tabletop RPG dice rolling with support for advanced mechanics and custom expressions.
Python library designed for ML engineers and AI developers who need to build complex, maintainable agentic AI workflows. Built on top of LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith, Wyrdflow provides a class-based node system with built-in validation, retry logic, observability, and production-grade reliability.
Immutable, hierarchical context management for use in GRIMOIRE.
Dict-like model system with schema validation, derived fields, and inheritance designed for integration with the Wyrdbound TTRPG Engine.
Flexible logging utilities with dependency injection support for use in GRIMOIRE.
I'm Justin - a writer and software developer from Indiana. I write mostly fantasy fiction, with occasional detours into science fiction and other genres. By day I build backend services; by night I build worlds.
If something here resonates, say hi.