<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:50:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@bruce-pendragon/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Knock-Knock]]></title><description><![CDATA[“The place is as quiet as a tomb,” Rafnir whispered in a tone that seemed to carry the fear that even a breath would awaken something ancient. “Considering what lives here,” Drevin answered back in the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/knock-knock</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/knock-knock</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161155]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:05:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4D1w6QovUeJnafwUSGJUXmppD4Nz5tcAJRyPBEwfZyYvg4dgDDyYAQRSNRjf5vtPnnW26aJpR9AxAanf8zFjcUvb6HAVw7fHuDFwDoT1KWUt5gjHBc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily Prompt: "Impound the Ship"]]></title><description><![CDATA["You've got to be kidding me," McLellan groaned as he surveyed the rusted heap of scrap duranium that was generously being called a ship. "This thing looks like it might have been spaceworthy,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/daily-prompt-impound-the-ship</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/daily-prompt-impound-the-ship</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161155]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:06:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: "Kat and Mister Hartford," by Sara Hart O'Brie]]></title><description><![CDATA[RECEIVED AN ADVANCED READER COPY IN EXCHANGE FOR A REVIEW "Suddenly the ones who didn't do anything to help when I lost everything, want to rush in and 'rescue' me from the only man who did!"]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-kat-and-mister-hartford-by-sara-hart-obrie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-kat-and-mister-hartford-by-sara-hart-obrie</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-180164]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:24:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc2zFHkgF9Cg34TjSuo1qAwMS9ce1wVorW9Zbyk9Eq6yGFrgh9RnueYvQB1WRsFBCZ345kNWTa4o6KwFPysAf5gXnbeFAnAbDPXwhwZb6bz8mfTXK16Tiqq6W1A6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review - "Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier" by Joseph Plumb Martin (abridged by Robert Harris II)]]></title><description><![CDATA[He's Done It Again! In an earlier post I reviewed Robert Harris II's abridged adaptation of Wells's The War of the Worlds, written for Ukrainian ESL students. Apparently it was part of a series called]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-narrative-of-a-revolutionary-soldier-by-joseph-plumb-martin-abridged-by-robert-harris-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-narrative-of-a-revolutionary-soldier-by-joseph-plumb-martin-abridged-by-robert-harris-ii</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-180164]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:42:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc2zFHkgF9Cg34TjSuo1qAwMS9ceaGk7EHHrYdLaPtSvWNxgrVBX64KUkGS4dPbkpDbiXdfNuaa1AthUKf9tehU5W22TjcYyJAeXinz9pAPoNeUJs1GTErZrLMkJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review - "The War of the Worlds - Abridged" Retold by Robert Harris II]]></title><description><![CDATA[I Don't Normally Like Abridged Works, But... In this case, for its value as an educational tool, I'm going to give this one props. Rare indeed is the serious reader who is not familiar with H.G. Wells's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-the-war-of-the-worlds-abridged-retold-by-robert-harris-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-180164/@bruce-pendragon/book-review-the-war-of-the-worlds-abridged-retold-by-robert-harris-ii</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-180164]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:15:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc2zFHkgF9Cg34TjSuo1qAwMS9ceQhknK1RYTLmE4YLaAzAcWGMmbeJNnPMF8WgwbjX6NDCfySZzzD24CGL3ZfxnYy7zm5uPg955NMz8ifccQZTnueUUCc5HNAAJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Spacing Matters: ZapFic50 Monday | Prompt: "Therapist" (18 Sep, 2023)]]></title><description><![CDATA[“It's one word, dammit. One, word!” The signmaker's apprentice, who wasn't more than 25, blinked at me and stared at his handiwork on my office door. “My name,” I said again, slowly, “is Victor McRae,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/why-spacing-matters-zapfic50-monday-or-prompt-therapist-18-sep-2023</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/why-spacing-matters-zapfic50-monday-or-prompt-therapist-18-sep-2023</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161155]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:43:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc2zFHkgF9Cg34TjSuo1qAwMS9cddcMa7UhYMHxbpJssExqXce4gTc9ZsDXpdAQLjEzzbavmhyoQwHSB8y87xHVdSayR3CSyLkGF34GBJBRyVZhdDerQF5zDhv6r?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's He Doing Here? 5-minute freewrite]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written for the Freewrite 5 minute challenge "unusual dressing," 17 September #freewrite #dailyprompt If eyes are windows to the soul, I wonder why he keeps the blinds down. That was my first]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/whats-he-doing-here-5-minutre-freewrite</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-161155/@bruce-pendragon/whats-he-doing-here-5-minutre-freewrite</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-161155]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:35:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4D1w6QovUeJnafwUSGJUXmppD2ovydAGZ1NfaPo74126rVqHiTwgfXR1d8YHgxpryTsc8kE6CeiY3FPGL3cmLNfgHL4p6dJSHCpParJPQ3XuAAxn2J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deleted for copyright reasons]]></title><description><![CDATA[deleted entry]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-chapter-two-reclaiming-lucia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-chapter-two-reclaiming-lucia</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:12:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Also deleted for copyright reasons]]></title><description><![CDATA[deleted entry]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-chapter-one-drevin-s-gem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-chapter-one-drevin-s-gem</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:48:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deleted to avoid dual-publication conflicts]]></title><description><![CDATA[deleted entry]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-prologue-the-king-s-herdsmen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fiction/@bruce-pendragon/the-prince-s-pet-prologue-the-king-s-herdsmen</guid><category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:10:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Okay, So... Does This Site Even Work?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I tried to upload a profile image. That should be easy, right? Well I clicked "settings" and had to log into steemit wallet, which is for whatever reason a different page from Steemit (Problem]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@bruce-pendragon/okay-so-does-this-site-even-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@bruce-pendragon/okay-so-does-this-site-even-work</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:03:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fiction Author Seeking to Pull a Pen From the Stone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once Upon a Time... There was a pair of twenty-somethings writing fanfiction. They went by the screen names Bruce Pendragon and Stoker Bramwell. Their signature work was a massive video game crossover]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@bruce-pendragon/a-fiction-author-seeking-to-pull-a-pen-from-the-stone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@bruce-pendragon/a-fiction-author-seeking-to-pull-a-pen-from-the-stone</guid><category><![CDATA[introduceyourself]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce-pendragon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:15:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwqSXWA2evTexn6YzPHotJF8R85JZsErvtTWYDJCSkr2fsM2KLiyFmxqKCUsFVrLPXb5LLgz98BFVZ4SjAF6D9xzQUenYkhSUh1JcsZ6T9mTgffgknFtRBhuG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>