The Orcish holiday of the Longest Dark takes place on the longest night of the year.

Allow me to present the recipe for Longest Dark Punch, taken from "To Serve Orc: Enduring Recipes from the Old Country, Watered Down for America," and the editorial note therefor.

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Editorial Note:

Niamh Kendall volunteered to research orc cocktails for this booklet, as she had previously made not-enemies with one Kursh-Tai of the Detroit Clubs Football Club. Kursh-Tai was willing to share cocktail recipes if and only if Niamh joined her in drinking them. Normally, I would ask Niamh to contribute a few words about her experience, but Niamh scrawled this note before losing consciousness and has been unavailable since. We don’t know if this was the result of entering a drinking contest with an orc or merely getting a good swallow of this concoction, but the GoFundMe for her liver transplant funded successfully and Niamh is hoped to recover as much as seventy percent of her functioning.

In a quart jar, combine equal portions of:

* Unaged/White Whiskey
* Fernet Branca
* Nutmeg Liqueur
* Grapefruit Juice

Slam it.

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My first ever fiction translation? You can now get #ProhibitionOrcs in German!

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Someone just told me they were surprised they were missing some #prohibitionOrcs tales.

There's a tag on my store for them. The collection, the novel, and the post-novel tales. (Yes, there's a collection that has a PO tale in it. And other dooms.)

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Once I have enough post-novel tales then yes, I'll release a collection with them all and unpublish the standalones.

Next new PO tale? Probably in the Christmas collection kickstarting this summer.

You need some fun weekend reading. Yes, you!

I finally tagged the uncollected #ProhibitionOrcs tales in my web store. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product-tag/prohibition-orcs/

If you wonder if you're missing any, this is how you find out.

No, the new stories aren't on Amazon or any other store. They make me charge too much to earn a buck on each. Sorry.

The odds of #prohibitionOrcs ever making it to audio are infinitesimal. I'd basically need unlimited budget.

But given https://octodon.social/@deafferret/113317302104847333 I must ask:

given that budget, who should I hire to narrate them?

Also: the first orc tale is free everywhere, including at my store.

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"In America, the only things built to orc scale were the guns."

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