Montage a Trois Part 3
Congratulations on surviving to another
2025-10-30 20:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Montage a Trois 2
In the beginning, there was chaos, an unholy cacophony, a mockery of Dharmic practices. In place of a prayer wheel, there hung a bell, a brutal bell, that emptied the mind with every swing. The noi...
2025-08-22 18:51:16 +0000 UTC View PostMontage a Trois 1
“Oh, so that’s what it was,” said Maki through a yawn. I’d expected more of a reaction to learning about the rest of the party. “Just friends? No family or lovers?”
We were standi...
2025-07-07 23:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 9.3
The smell in Best Breakfast was thick with grease from food dunked in oil long months past its change date. Today’s raucous atmosphere had the kitchen churning, belching forth waves of hot air un...
2025-06-16 03:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 9.2
Did she ask him out on a date?
Nah. That'd be crazy. It was probably a common thing among supers, a sort of 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours.' Women like that were not interested in m...
2025-06-16 03:06:54 +0000 UTC View PostGrief
Sorry, folks, having a hard time of it. But the good news is I only have so many old friends left and, surely, I won't outlive all of them, so I can't imagine this will happen often.
Been tr...
2025-06-09 07:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 9.1
IX
Oak Crescent Hunting Lodge stood to the west of Dudlin, stretched palatial across a long ridge overlooking town, such that when the sun set upon the residents, its black silhouette outline...
2025-05-31 19:25:52 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 8 (full chapter)
VIII: Bridges
“I'm goin' out on the highway
Listen to them big trucks whine
I'm goin' out on the highway
Listen to them big trucks whine
White freight liner
W...
World of Our Own 3
The gulls were relentless, divebombing her again and again with a single-minded obsession rarely seen in humans. Their hunger could not and would not be tempered by failure or strain. They would ke...
2025-05-13 01:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostWorld of Our Own 2
I hopped over the ledge onto one of Harbor Hill’s finest spots from a rusted-out fire escape. Wind swept the ragged top of the building in gusts, kicking up gravel and decayed slivers of tar pape...
2025-04-29 02:02:07 +0000 UTC View PostWorld of Our Own 1
The camera hung motionless outside a fogged window forty feet above the cracked sidewalk. Below was blemished and broken concrete, free of any unwilling or unknowing extras. People avoided my block...
2025-04-11 15:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostMaster and Apprentice 2
I smirked. “Here?” I was game, but I wanted to be sure.
My influencer student kept a tight control over her online image. She presented herself as a lover of exercise but tried to differe...
2025-03-28 17:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostMaster and Apprentice 1
“I’m going to light myself on fire!” I said, ecstatic. This was one of my best ideas yet. “You’ll have to use the blanket to put me out. Each time you’re successful, we’ll cut it in h...
2025-03-28 17:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 7
AN: Feeling creatively refreshed recently. I want to do one to two more chapters of this for sure before any potential hiatus. After that, I might try to do both stories for a little before...
2025-03-03 02:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 6
VI
The Mountain Prophet was the only station broadcasting from close enough to be listenable these days. The Forestry Service’s horseshit radar grid rendered everything else static from dus...
2025-02-22 18:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 5
V
The world tore asunder to a deafening orchestra of gales foreign to the skies above Pennsylvania. From the low, mournful howls of the Mojave to the humming of Saharan dunes and the relentle...
2025-02-17 14:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostNew Cthonic 4
Jake Quigley and his father walked in a tight single file, their headlamps dim and pointed down at the dew-covered ground. A Code Orange hung heavy over the pair, spoiling what would have otherwise...
2025-02-08 19:34:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe First Day of the Rest of Your Week
[Hot Patch]
2025-01-29 02:11:30 +0000 UTC View Post
-Your NPC students can gain a maximum of 10XP times your total Dice in the Attribute or Skill you are using to train them in a day....
Interlude: Dr. Nathaniel West, PhD. 2
Forty minutes later, he and Tilde were standing in front of a single cab Ford Ranger, the truck already loaded with equipment for the dive. Victor had brought his pride and joy, a long, heavy walnu...
2025-01-15 19:41:25 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude: Dr. Nathaniel West, PhD. 1
AN: This is the first 'main story' Interlude. I wanted to make sure that it came out now at the start of the training week for everyone.
Before the mid-afternoon light...
2025-01-15 19:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter Sheet (End of Harbor Hill Lights)
Name: James Li
Archetype: Martial Arts Stunt Performer / Charming Rogue (Human)
Description: James Li is a skilled martial artist and stunt performer, known for his incredible acrobatic...
2025-01-10 03:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostSunday Funday 2
AN: I could have split this to get it out on time, but I thought it worked better as a whole. There's some smut towards the end.
In the background loomed a ruined bric...
2025-01-08 18:37:26 +0000 UTC View PostSunday Funday
The stairs to Maki’s second-floor University City apartment were marble – slanted, stained, badly lit, and covered in friable chips of peeling wallpaper, but marble all the same. The building w...
2024-12-29 19:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostHarbor Hill Lights 4
AN: And without further ado, a return t
2024-12-16 03:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostHarbor Hill Lights 3
AN: No smut in this one, needed another bridge update. Smut in the next and last update for this chapter.
The unusually deep waters where the Beagle met the Atlantic affected...
2024-11-25 18:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostHarbor Hill Lights 2
Chauncey Burn was in the middle of a long-panning shot of the English countryside when I entered the theater, the camera following an early twentieth-century steam train as the openin...
2024-11-18 23:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostSchedule News
Good news (kinda)! Four more weeks of my schedule being fucked and I'll have more time to devote to writing. I'm going to try and hit all four updates for these weeks, though they will probably be ...
2024-11-12 21:33:40 +0000 UTC View PostHarbor Hill Lights
Gunshots, an explosion, and the ensuing pungent cloud of smoke had chased all but the most suicidally unbothered locals inside. Many had sought shelter inside the theater and were now loitering aro...
2024-11-04 18:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostOctober Interlude Poll
Edit: After a tight race, Strongest in the World came from behind to take it by a healthy margin. Thanks for all the suggestions; I do still want to write the unnamed NPC POV at some point ...
2024-10-31 17:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostForeplay Noir
A face meant for movies stared back at me from the medicine cabinet mirror, striking and beautiful but with a hard look I recognized from the streets. This was the man whose gaze you avoided on the...
2024-10-29 05:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post