Benjamin C. Grimm

@grimm.wsocial.eu

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Author of Tales of the Valley. totv.eu

Another mystery island!
A mysterious European island.
Benjamin Grimm overlooking the Colosseum.
€5 - Featuring a USB-C charger. €10 - Featuring the traditional European breakfast (Espresso shot and cigarette).
Some of the dialogue in Tales of the Valley: Genesis.
Locations and characters translated into Japanese for the manga.
Concept art for a manga which later came to be Tales of the Valley: Odyssey, featuring a family sitting at a dinner table before two armed men break in and kills the man of the household, while abducting the women. Read from right to left.
A man sitting in an abandoned building with vegetation in the background.
A street in Tbilisi that might as well be Paris.
New galleria being constructed in the Brno business district.
Six cranes constructing Dornych centrum during twilight. Brno, Czech Republic.
Another Tales of the Valley: Odyssey cover redesign attempt featuring cut-out letters showcasing a dramatic valley behind.
Another Tales of the Valley: Odyssey book cover design proposal featuring white text, red "Odyssey" as well as a white silhouette of a LeMat Carbine.
Reimagined Tales of the Valley: Odyssey book cover featuring a landscape in the shape of the book title letters.
En burk Norrlands Guld i Norrland
Sun casting rays on environment despite very dark sky.
Benjamin Grimm standing in an abandoned glass factory surrounded by vines and brick walls. Empoli, IT. 2020.
Vines reclaiming an abandoned building in Brno.
Kinnekulle, Skaraborg.
Boschetto Park. Firenze, IT. 10/08/2020.
When prices are controlled to be artificially low (below equilibrium market price), the supply of the product is less than the demand for the product. This results in a number of people who would have had access to the product at market equilibrium to now be without it. Meaning people are worse off than without the price control.
Trying to get Photoshop running on Fedora 44.
Panoramic view over Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores (a UNESCO-listed town with densely packed white buildings and terracotta/orange rooftops).
Indoor temperature in Brno, Czech Republic. 28/06/2026
Except from "Tales of the Valley: Odyssey" by Benjamin Grimm. “May I?” She extended her arms toward the pistols. “Of course, what is mine is yours! They do no good on a shelf collecting dust.” “In that case, I think I’ll borrow this one,” the orange man announced, holding a musket with an unusually large trumpet-like muzzle. The head of an ax was attached beneath the muzzle, turning the entire weapon into a handle. “Ah yes, especially made for someone just like you to go berserk. I haven’t seen it in action for decades. It all started when a man by the name Leif stepped off his longship,” Attaway began. A red dagger holstered on a stand prevented me from paying attention to the rest of the story. Red candles illuminated the framed photograph of a young Asian woman. “Sakura’s Kodachi. Once wielded by a beautiful female warrior in the province of Chisanaki,” Attaway said behind me. “I met her during my travels there. She happened to be my first love, swept me right off my feet.” He was going to tell another long story. “Need options if the bullets run out, I suppose,” I interrupted. “Very true, Leah. Very true,” he patted my back. “Go ahead. It won’t bite.” I took a few steps towards the Kodachi and lifted it from its stand. “Give it a swing,” Attaway nodded towards the straw man beside Sakura’s little altar. I unsheathed the blade and raised it above my head. Might have put a little too much force into my slice, because the straws of hay felt no tougher than air, and I made a dent in Attaway’s floor.
B&W cathedral spire.
Drainage pipe.
Peak 1970s Scandinavian interior design.
29 ryska befälhavare har dispens för att köra fartyg utan lots in i 30 svenska hamnar. (Expressen, 23/06/2026)
A strong majority of EU citizens want to reduce dependencies on digital infrastructure from third countries.
A very large leaf.
Excerpt from "Tales of the Valley: Genesis" by Benjamin Grimm: I pulled at my cuffs to be certain an honest inch of linen showed beyond the jacket sleeve, then fixed my eyes on Mr. Wright. I refused to look for Joseph among the rows. If I did not search, I could not fail to find him. I thought of the trunk at home with its hinged mouth gaping for my diploma. Of Sunday’s road unwinding east past the fields, past the Great Lake. And of the school in Chisanaki. Did it look like the oriental temples sketched in travelogues, or just another pile of bricks reeking of soot like the Academy?
Benjamin Grimm in a snow-covered München.
An excerpt from Benjamin Grimm's upcoming novel "Tales of the Valley: Genesis" discussing morality: “Who decides?” I said, realizing Ye was treading very close to bullshit territory. “You say it as if it were written somewhere a man could go and check. Who knows what’s best? What’s right and what’s wrong?” Ye’s face did not stiffen the way Chiesa’s had. If anything he looked pleased. “No one knows what is right. Any man who offers to hand down what is good for all people is a thief counting your fingers while he shakes your hand.” “Then you have just argued my side.” “Right is one question. Wrong is another. No one needs to be told what is wrong. The man doing it knows already.” “How?” “By the work he does to call it something else. The wrongdoer has every reason to rationalize and deny, yet they know anyway. That knowledge, despite all incentive to suppress it, becomes the proof that wrong is real and undeniable.” “And if he comes to believe his justifications?” “Then he has done the work well.” I went hunting for the hole in it. I had found the hole in every tidy thing anyone ever set before me, and I trusted there would be one here. “A man’s child takes a fever,” Ye said, before I had it. “Three streets away is a physician who could break it by nightfall. The man cannot pay. The physician has children of his own, and an empty woodshed, and a winter on the way, so he does not open the gate, and the child dies. Go and ask the physician whether it was right or wrong. He will give you his children, and the woodpile, and the winter. He will not tell you it was right, but he will never admit it was wrong.”
Tales of the Valley: Odyssey currently sits at a 4.83 rating on Goodreads.