Tibs placed a hand on Heather’s, stopping her from drawing her sword in response to the bow Rachel aimed at them. Lian was the only one on her team who looked unsure of the situation. Darna and K...
2025-10-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Eric opened his eyes, and glee looked back at him. He turned around and admired his workspace. The prickling was silent. He didn’t need it, not anymore. When he was ready for it, the diagram woul...
2025-10-26 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Snake sat in a school bus so old, he wouldn’t be surprised that it still had a combustion engine. It was one of the smaller ones the California penal system used, six seats, three to a side.
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2025-10-26 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Gralgiran looked over the people seated at the meeting table. The only one he wasn’t used to seeing there was his Heart.
“What caused the problem?” he asked the Supervisor. He had the r...
2025-10-25 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapters written
This week, I wrote 3 chapters for Mind Your Step, 4 for The Technician’s Fight, 1 for The Daughter, and 1 for Harker.
The Redux for the Technician’...
2025-10-25 05:12:37 +0000 UTC
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Tibs sat by the room’s entrance and now had a sense of how Jackal felt each time they’d encountered a new puzzle he had to work out, and there was nothing for anyone else to do, or at least the...
2025-10-24 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Jeremy brought up the circuit he’d designed and inserted it into the reactor floating over his drafting table. It was a scaled-down version of what it would be if he were to have it built, not th...
2025-10-23 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Tibs headed toward the bear as soon as he was able to identify the mass of essence in the distance.
“Isn’t the dungeon in that direction?” Heather asked.
“I owe Karliak a bear....
2025-10-22 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Gralgiran listened to the silence.
Too many months now. Too many of them without a Spreading Branch broadcast. He was growing concerned there might be nothing left to rescue by the time he fo...
2025-10-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Tibs looked over the beams leaning against each other, while Ruppert moved among the top. He murmured comments to himself, that Tibs heard in his mind, and which Karliak also heard, since they comp...
2025-10-20 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The reception counter was unoccupied when Eric entered the motel. He looked around for a moment, wondering where they were. He couldn’t remember any time in the two weeks he’d been staying here...
2025-10-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Information appeared on his visor as Patrick looked at the building on the other side of the street. Its height; thirty-six feet. Its width; five hundred and eighteen feet. Its depth; a hundred and...
2025-10-19 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“How are you feeling?” Leiha asked, calmly watching Jeremy from the other side of her desk.
The laugh that escaped him was strangled by the almost sob at the utter ridicule of the questio...
2025-10-18 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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As Tibs hoped, Lian sat himself next to Heather and leaned in to whisper something. That should keep her sufficiently distracted so she wouldn’t react too much to some of the lies he expected he...
2025-10-17 13:00:37 +0000 UTC
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The projection over his desk showed an enhanced view of the Bane, recorded from a ship, by the motion.
Gralgiran had been standing when Admiral Douhane sel Synta Kreftia had appeared for the ...
2025-10-16 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Heather rolled her shoulder, looking like she couldn’t believe it worked. “Why was it painful? I’ve been healed before, and it wasn’t.”
“That was a purity cleric. I used Fever.”...
2025-10-15 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The room Jeremy stepped into was…empty.
His orders had been to report for the next part of his interrogation training. As this was hunter related, he wore his uniform, but hadn’t expected...
2025-10-14 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Stepping inside Karliak was no longer stepping into something obviously made. The path was grassy, the walls foliage and rocks at their base. There was something of how Firmen had made his walls mo...
2025-10-13 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“How did you know there was a bomb in the bag?” Walter asked.
Eric didn’t answer, watching the lion cut a line from the bottom of his leg to where the knife had entered his leg.
...
2025-10-12 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you, Janine,” Donald said, and the mail delivery woman handed him the stack. “How’s Willie?”
“Doing good, Mister Orr. Off to summer camp so me and Gary can have some time t...
2025-10-12 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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A bit of a warning to those who join my stream, next week will be a short one. I am off for the holiday on Monday, then have my surgery on Thursday. I should be back home on Friday, but I won’t b...
2025-10-11 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Gralgiran returned to his apartment, puzzling over the request. That the male knew of his Heart wasn’t surprising; by now, what had happened to Jer had circulated through all the news media, not ...
2025-10-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the trip wasn’t the chore Tibs worried it would be, having to play entertainer all the time so Ruppert could talk. After a few days of constant jabbering, the squirrel grew tired of i...
2025-10-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The door buzzed as Jeremy put his shirt on. A tap on his tablet opened it. “Come on in! I’m just about ready!”
He grabbed the new jacket and threw it on, turning to exit the bedroom, an...
2025-10-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The city wall came into view further down the road, and Heather ran, Ruppert chasing her.
Tibs didn’t.
He knew Alistair wouldn’t be there. His old teacher might have spent some time...
2025-10-08 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Gralgiran stood to the side as the medics, with the assistance of the Quartermaster’s people, brought the pods to their species representatives. Each was accompanied by their own medics, as well ...
2025-10-07 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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With going through their morning routine, then packing and their leisurely walk, it was well into morning by the time the sentry noticed them and ran off to warn the bandits of their approach. Tibs...
2025-10-06 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The sky didn’t match Colby’s mood, and that was a shame. It was gray, while he was excited to be in the pickup with his father, arriving at the state’s auction house. It was Colby’s first t...
2025-10-05 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Over the next hour of his walk, the neighborhoods became more affluent, not so much that he worried he’d be chased away, but the people, an even mix of human and Furries, as far as he could tell,...
2025-10-05 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapters written
This week was ordinary. So three chapters for Mind Your Step, three for The Technician’s Fight, one for The Daughter, and one for Harker.
The initial...
2025-10-04 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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