Posts by Piers

Hi - Things remain up in a heaval here, as the ill timing of these supposedly monthly HiPiers columns indicates. The last one was Apull 2023, wherein I described our…

HI - I have been getting later and later on these HiPiers columns, and finally missed Marsh 2023 entirely. What has been going on? Have I been sick? No. Ornery?…

Hi - This month was named by my daughter Penny. I was trying to figure out a suitable appellation, and she suggested it, and I laughed it off, but in…

Hi - Last year I reviewed the ogres' pursuits, month by month. I think the point has been made: stay away from ogres unless you have excellent reason, such as…

HI - I believe I have mentioned how justifiably proud ogres are of their stupidity. That goes for their memory too. Even when they succeed in counting all their clumsy…

HI - This the month it started, OctOgre. As many of my readers know, I was accused of being an ogre at fan conventions, when I had never even been…

HI - This month, the bored ogres take a break from intimidating dragons and have at innocent forests, tying knots in the trunks of saplings and smashing mature trees into…

Hi - This is the month when an ogre saw a ghost and was of course too dull to understand what it was. When someone explained it to him, he…

HI - First, an announcement: Doug Harter has updated the Xanth Character Database through #46 Six Crystal Princesses now coming on sale. That’s the one where two children set out…

This is generally a nice month, warm and pleasant. That’s why the ogres find it boring. It is at least the start of the hurricane season, which of course they…