Cecil Disharoon, author

I'm Cecil, writer of Anywhere With You; Be Chill, Cease ill; I was an ESL Online instructor until the recent law changes, My new interactive horror adventure, Versus the Curse of Allautou, is waiting for you on itch.io games. Games Create, under Lyron 1, contains several interactive story games you can play, free. The very latest is Sunstrike and Company: the Infinite Pyramid, a science fiction adventure with childlike, superhero, and philosophical elements. Choose Tappandali (the plant man), Merriwyn di Archiere, or Shamilal Asano to begin this choose-your-own story game, with three other playable characters within.

In the past, I've written freelance feature articles, often with a first-person experience twist, for Planet Weekly in Tuscaloosa, AL/Jackson, MS, The Strip in Tuscaloosa, and most recently, since 2018, for Eisner-Award winning Back Issue Magazine. It's internationally-distributed periodical, interviewing comics creators from the 1970s to 1990s, many of whom worked on properties now popular in television and film! We drew and created D'n'A: The Mountain, a horror comic plotted by Angela Dawn Disharoon. We sold the comic and its t-shirts in San Diego, CA. I worked later on the IDW comic book, Hero Duty (with Joe Phillips, creator/artist); and the interactive YA horror Ciara's Haunting, a Select Your Own Excitement web of multiple option storylines. I've been performing and writing songs for Integr8d Soul for many years now, including eight and a half spent in San Diego, California. Marc Kane's my partner, also singing and writing with me. You can give us a listen on reverbnation.com and bandcamp.com. We're working on new recordings, of indie rock songs that range from musical callbacks to the original days of rock'n'roll to gentle folk-influenced tunes and crunchy drop-C rockers. There's an ebullient heart beating beneath the often-upbeat, spiritual lyrics.

Anywhere With You was modeled superficially on romance novels, as an effort to break out of my usually intensely-introspective prose style, to deliver a plot of two young people falling passionately in love. It's a story about coming of age, pursuing Art and Freedom, and Romance- with a twisted ghost story threaded within. Be Chill is an outgrowth of my blog, full of short stories, essays, and pieces based on visiting the haunts of San Diego. It's dedicated to my friend T.J. Jones, for whom I began the blog, and Penelope Medina, a newborn addition to the family of our friends Hai and Moriah Medina. Great Job! You Get A Star! is based on our first year experience as ESL online instructors for children in China. The biggest PR boost my writing almost had, came from Love Is Love, a 144 page offering by DC Comics & IDW Publishing- a benefit book dedicated to the victims of the Orlando Pulse Night Club shooting in June, 2016. Joe drew a page and asked me to script it; only later did I realize the high profile of the project, which was announced soon afterwards by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times! Our page was dropped for space. It may not be famous work, but I see its promise. I think you will, too. - Be Chill, Cecil The latest, Sunstrike, can be played for free at : Please, leave a review! Did you have fun? What do you think?

This video previews my first published book, which I'd like to re-create.