Jeremy kneed the woman who had stabbed him, then punched her in the face. He berated himself as she fell. He had claws. He should have gone for the throat. She didn’t get up, so he allowed himsel...
2025-09-09 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The fire low and Heather sleeping, Tibs moved away so he could talk with the core without her overhearing him, if she only pretended to sleep. He doubted that was the case—she was too upfront abo...
2025-09-08 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The floor shook.
“Continue with the exercises,” Cedric said, walking between the groups of three as they worked on what would be their year-end test in magical craft, making a containment...
2025-09-07 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The army had taught Eric one skill he enjoyed now that he’d left. The ability to sleep under almost any conditions. He’d slept through an artillery drill, while explosives were being detonated ...
2025-09-07 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Jeremy leaned around the corner only long enough to fire three shots, then was back behind cover. “Four doors down. I think.” He was confident he’d seen the tip of a boot in that doorway. Pos...
2025-09-06 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapters written
This week was a little ‘short’ writing wise. Monday was a holiday, here in Canada, and on Wednesday afternoon, a friend dropped by for a visit. I’d pla...
2025-09-06 12:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Tibs laughed.
He’d fully expected her to protest, to negotiate something more to her liking. Try to whittle at his determination.
A bold lie? Glowing so bright?
That took him co...
2025-09-05 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Still unable to contact the shuttle,” comms said, and Gralgiran nodded, forcefully setting aside the desire to order full thrust toward the station so he could rescue his Heart.
The role...
2025-09-04 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Patreon has made a new dashboard layout available, and I decided to avail myself of it. I would appreciate opinions since I suck at that kind of stuff
One area I'd like looked at specifically...
2025-09-04 10:43:30 +0000 UTC
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Tibs crouched next to the unconscious young woman. His copper haired pursuer. He’d never been in a position to take his time studying her. The best he’d managed being during a short conversatio...
2025-09-03 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The hangar was the definition of chaos to Jeremy, with Kelsirians in hunter armor moving about among personnel from Repairs, Maintenance, and a few other departments, by the variation on the utilit...
2025-09-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Mind Your Step, an Introduction
Mind your step is book 5 in the Dungeon Runner series, and book 2 in the second arc of the series, which I’ve called, Tibs of the Wilds.
This books con...
2025-09-01 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Arthur Orr took a circuit board from the components carefully arranged on the anti-static cloth before him on the kitchen table, and placed it within the cellphone case, next to another one. He scr...
2025-08-31 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Eric watched the skyline as he walked toward the city along Old Tiranis Way. He waited for it, anticipated it, and it still took his breath away when he finally made out the lightnings.
He st...
2025-08-31 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Gralgiran pulled his arm out from under Jer, and rolled over Toom, to tap his tablet. “Go.”
“Alpha,” the bridge’s beta said, “You’re needed on the bridge.”
“On my way....
2025-08-30 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Tibs ignored the dungeon’s whimpering as he tightened his hold on the core, or the way its voice changed, once it was out of the cradle. He focused on it, on the essence in it.
“Please....
2025-08-29 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapters written
This week, I wrote 4 chapters for Mind Your Step, the extra one was to catch up for the missed one on the previous monday. 3 chapters for The Technician’s ...
2025-08-29 12:00:20 +0000 UTC
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The ship didn’t have the level of alertness Jeremy had expected. There was something, in the days that followed, but it wasn’t like the tension he felt.
They were chasing a pirate ship. D...
2025-08-28 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The essence within the wall changed as Tibs ran.
The dungeon had gotten over the surprise of how easily he’d killed the powerful creature, and was trying more direct ways of killing him.
2025-08-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“You know,” his heart said, before Gralgiran offered him the sauce covered cube of meat, silencing him.
“Oh, I know,” he replied, grinning at the male leaning against him on the couch...
2025-08-26 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The first creature to reach Tibs was feline in looks. Its claws and fur were metal over stone, but it also had wooden horns. He took them with his shield, but the force behind the impact pushed him...
2025-08-25 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Jeremy hurried back to engineering to find it, as it had been these last weeks, busier than ever, every station occupied, technicians from engineering, maintenance, repairs, and probably other depa...
2025-08-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It took Tibs more than a week before the forest thinned. Later that day, he left it behind and stepped onto grassland. As he’d been told, the trail was marked by trampled grass. Pushing a little ...
2025-08-22 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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This week, it was 2 chapters for Mind Your Step. I had a checkup on Monday morning. It was three chapters for The Technician’s Fight. The final chapter for The Tourists, and the submission proces...
2025-08-22 12:00:19 +0000 UTC
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“The ship is entering long range scanner,” the hunter at the sensors said.
“Any indication of their pursuers?” Gralgiran asked, standing in the center of the bridge.
“Not yet....
2025-08-21 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The trail didn’t improve.
Tibs couldn’t even find evidence of Charlie’s passage, with how buried the markers were. Clearly his fighter, Marok, knew the trail well enough he hadn’t had...
2025-08-20 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Okay Jeremy, so the thing you need to keep in mind is that Kersosterans don’t do the ‘till death do us part’ thing. Everything’s very much about the transaction. The contract. So me bein...
2025-08-19 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Tibs woke with a start, saw the blood covering him ,the massacre surrounding him; then the memories assaulted him.
He threw up.
He saw a lot of raw meat in it, and he threw up again. Th...
2025-08-18 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The trek home is…. Well, I’m not going to say uneventful, but nothing to spend all that much time on either. I mean, it’s pretty much just more of the same. Two more years of more of the same...
2025-08-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The old lynx leaned back in the plush seat and let his breath out as he watched the children and some parents move away.
This felt different. Well, it had been the end of the story, so that w...
2025-08-17 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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