Founded on December 4, 2006, The Mystic Wolf Pub was designed to be a community for creative expression through stories, poetry, artwork, and photography.

The Pub is not just a content warehouse. It's not a site designed for visitors to quickly go in and out, just grabbing the stories they want and leaving. It is designed to be a place where you want to "hang out", talk with the authors and artists, chat about day-to-day events, play a game, do a crossword, or browse the community recipe book. While The Pub is not, and will never be, a "portal" site, we wouldn't mind if you set us as your default web page in your browser...

The Pub was founded by Eric Storm (formerly known as Net Wolf), a long-time internet author and web programmer. He grew dissatisfied with his last home online, and so he felt it necessary to build a new one. (If you are curious about just what went on to cause the break between EWP and Eric, you can Go here.)

The Rules

There is a certain standard of behavior expected in The Pub. If you violate that standard often enough, you will be asked to leave. If and when you do violate the standard, expect to be rebuked harshly. We aren't going to tiptoe around the issue: if you screw up, we're going to call you to the carpet for it. The rules aren't that hard to follow, and here they are:

• Respect those around you. Disrespectful behavior is the fastest way to bring one of the admins down on your head. If we really need to define "disrespectful" to you, then you don't belong here.
• Try to keep your comments friendly. Remember, there are people behind those screen names. Before posting a comment, read it as if you were receiving the comment from someone else, not knowing what their intention was. If you don't like the tone that way, then please re-write it before posting.
• Political conversation is restricted to the portion of the forum set aside for that kind of thing. Restrict your GOP-bashing, or your Dem-bashing, or your whatever-bashing, to that section. Posts and topics that have overtly political content outside the political zone will not be moved: they will be deleted.
• Absolutely NO flaming of the contributors. The first offense will get you a warning. The second offense will get you banned for a week. The third offense will get you banned permanently.
• Negative critique does not equal flaming. Just because someone says something negative about a story doesn't make it a flame, so long as it is done in a constructive manner. Personal comments about a contributor, or nasty, rude comments about an item that are not constructive, are considered flames. Learn the difference. (To that end, you may read the Critiquing Guide found here on the site.)
• If you have a problem with the website, either post it to the Website Issues area of the forum, or contact the administration.
• The admins have final say in all disputes. You may not like it, but we're the ones doing the work, so we get to make the final decisions on what happens here.