Darcy Maunder

Darcy Maunder

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  • PEAK – A (sort of) Review

    ‘If you were going to be trapped on an island, what items would you bring?’Chances are you’ve been asked this question as part of some awkward icebreaker at least once in your life, and if you answered with ‘a trumpet, a frisbee and a plushie of a frog called Bing Bong’, I have just the…

    Darcy

    August 6, 2025
    Articles, gaming, PEAK, Reviews
    aggro-crab, co-op-games, game-review, gaming, indie-games, landfall-games, landfall-publishing, PEAK, review, steam
  • The Prey of Prediction

    Ylena knew why the seer had chosen her, why it had asked her to… Dispose, of the infant lain before her, nothing but thin blankets and a flimsy wicker basket to shield it from the cold. Her eyes shifted to the dagger sheathed at her waist, her current favourite of the many she kept oiled and sharpened,…

    Darcy

    July 31, 2025
    Prey of Prediction, Short Stories
    fantasy, fiction, Short Stories, short-story, supernatural, tense, writing
  • Blind Wisdom

    ‘The Book of Sight is a gift from God. A tool for his will and his will alone.’The words had been spoken to the students of Syltere so many times, Evangeline was starting to wonder if they’d get stuck in her ears. It was one of the first lessons they were taught, hence why it…

    Darcy

    July 31, 2025
    Blind Wisdom, Short Stories
    books, christianity, doubt, faith, fantasy, fiction, religion, retelling, short-story, writing
  • Tiny Glade – You’re Playing it Wrong

    Tiny Glade has been sporadically popping up on my social media for the past couple of years and immediately won a place in the slightly muddled ‘games to watch’ list I keep in my head. The charming art style, fantasy/medieval theme and satisfying animations quickly set it apart from other building games I’ve played, and…

    Darcy

    July 31, 2025
    Cosy Games, Reviews, tiny glade
    Cosy Games, cosy gaming, gaming, review, Reviews, steam, tiny glade, video-games
  • PEARS Procedure: My Experience with Open-Heart Surgery

    If you’ve been told you need to have the PEARS procedure, you’ve probably done the first thing that everyone does upon finding out about any new medical ‘thing’: run to Google. This is exactly what I did, and while I found endless amounts of NHS explanations, interviews with surgeons and scientific articles that my secondary…

    Darcy

    July 31, 2025
    Articles, Health & Wellness, PEARS
    health, life, mental-health, surgery, writing
  • Finding the Beauty in Abnormality

    If you’ve been on this planet for more than a second, you’ll know that social media is essentially fuel for self-hatred. Be slim, but not skinny. Curvy, but not fat. You get so used to seeing the world’s most stereotypically beautiful people every time you go on your phone that, when you finally stop to…

    Darcy

    July 30, 2025
    Abnormality, Articles, Health & Wellness

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