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.

Immortals in Training

Immortals in Training. It's everybody---everybody. The viewpoint from which I am returning has given me the stomach of the person about which I am next writing, and that is the proper level at which to write. Once we read through the story "Holy Terror, Holy Pity", or the sequel to "So the Truth May Survive" we will have an illumination into the version of our dual nature as the universe and as humanity told in the colors ringing of truth.

I am committed to remembering the sanctity of all life and releasing illusions so deeply held beneath our subconscious concentration that they may elude our understandings, and with it, our peaceful negotiation with one another in these times.

I am proud of the pains that have brought this story to life, as I find faith in its voice. I will occasionally demonstrate how we often have no real measure of how much we are loved, having chosen at times to forget our identities as loved ones. You would not be now here reading this without the love of someone, however much you might judge their efforts.

When I realize the greatness of the force that motivates these words, my chaotic preparation to become this writer becomes a more humorous collection of lessons, as I have learned to enjoy my grim tales in art, with the need to constantly expand the warmth of tones and the fidelity to the beautiful long sentence and the down-to-earth conversations we hear in our favorite characters.

Before "I" prepared this ---you, my future reader, seem to be in on this at the very moment it's written, that's why it feels like you could easily have had these thoughts on your own. I'm excited that you will have thoughts on your own, and while I encourage a positive tone for our mutual benefit, I will certainly take in any you share with me, until such day I confess to being too behind to keep up with all the fan mail, at which point I'll then promptly develop the super-power to hear you anyway! I say, welcome aboard ASAP, the longer we're friends, the more happy I can be to see messages coming in from old friends! To say the least, it's simply never done without you.


Honestly? I didn't think "Sunstrike and Valkyrie Maiden" as a title did justice to their equality as characters nor did it give any hint of the importance of the twins at the center of observation ("Name the Twins" is hereby closed, as I've finally realized nobody else will probably feel comfortable to submit any idea that isn't a raucous joke---or do you have the burning inspiration to break my expectations?). So: whether it be in graphic novel form, or in its movie script or book or floating verbal cloud, Immortals in Training will be the title by which to find the adventures of...well, what starts in the present versions (!) as a teenage girl visiting family in Denmark getting mixed up with a thousand year old vampire and a champion of Luxitica, born of Earth and recently returned to wander the world, on the site of a lost museum of the Dark Ages. I've previously referred to it as inspired by a domestic situation crossed with the fantastic, and it's gotten more interesting growing into a life of its own. I hope that helps you understand why I think it'll have something for anyone and will remain a written child of my heart for you to revisit any time you seek that special motivation that lets you know, right in the stomach, you're in for the entertainment of your life! Hope you enjoyed the sketch; it'll always remind me of "Marker Day"...but that's another story.