I was gonna try and get out another few chapters, but i'm not certain if I'm gonna get them out, with family and such (and six inches of rain in California). So if I don't, marry Christmas, and rem...
2025-12-22 00:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re crazy!” Mindy said.
So much for keeping an open mind. I sent a little ball of glowing light to get in her eyes. “As crazy as that?”
“That’s… just a tric...
2025-12-15 05:12:22 +0000 UTC View PostArmsmaster met me at the door to his lab.
“I apologize for the mess,” he commented. “The aftermath of… well, recent events has kept me busy.”
With that, I walked into the imma...
2025-12-10 03:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostI am super late on this one, so as apology it goes free and the next two will be up tomorrow, hopefully.
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The only other unblocked door that Cannibal Girl shows me opens up ...
2025-12-07 05:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostSchool went well, and I quickly changed, waiting for the PRT car to take me to the Rig. Just about everyone knew who I was, but…
The formalities had to be observed as I sat with Vista in th...
2025-12-02 05:30:17 +0000 UTC View PostEvidently, loyalty ran through the stomach. Pretty soon the water was steaming, filling the air with the scent of broth. I figured I and Mindy would get our—
Nope. Nope, the kids got it all...
2025-11-30 08:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow... but the next Orb Weaver probably won't be until Saturday night or Sunday, due to holiday.
2025-11-26 02:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe first day of school since my job in Boston had gone well. None of the Wards brought it up, and I wondered if Emily Piggot had told them not to. My debrief was short—the Bay had no local...
2025-11-22 03:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostI opened my mouth. Please don’t eat me? Where are your parents? Young lady, that’s not appropriate?
I ran through all of the possible things I could say to the mob of kids, holdi...
2025-11-20 20:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind died down around dawn. The snow was piled up around the station, but I managed to force the door open and pulled my sled out, after making certain nothing was waiting for me.
I had o...
2025-11-19 04:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostNext chapter of Arcane Engineer will be up later tonight. This morning, me, being fit and in my mid-fifties, choose to lift a forty-pound box. Currently, my back is in great pain. I was gonna have ...
2025-11-17 23:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostWe stopped outside of Michael’s house. It looked normal. The silly welcome mat, the paint job that had a few missed spots, the car in the front.
I took a deep breath.
“The PRT can h...
2025-11-14 22:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I entered the room, the football team looked nervous, the cheerleaders confused. The parents all looked confused.
Excellent. I had expected that Jackson would let his friends kn...
2025-11-13 23:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostBut... went to doctor. Had 3 root canals. one root evidently didn't get he memo that it had been hit by pain-bye-bye juice.
Not a fun time was had by all. So gonna take a day off.
... 2025-11-12 06:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning I got up, showered (it was amazing how much you could love a shower after days of having to be bathed), and did some low-impact exercises. There would be time for getting ...
2025-11-10 22:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post"Is it gonna work?" Mandy asked. They were using her garage, and if Mom found out...
"Sure," Hank, the totally cool kid of Ms. Williams' 6th/7th grade class. "I heard that if you put a cand...
Seconds later, a set of big claws penetrated the metal of the doors and yanked them out. In the light of my spells, something loomed in the gap.
Teeth, matted fur… bones shining th...
2025-11-09 06:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe store was dark, rich with the scent of fruit and bread. AT the end of the aisles was a grandmotherly looking women reading a news paper. Her eyes widened when she saw us.
“¡Tú eres la...
2025-11-04 22:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostI hated the interview.
Not because it was unproductive, it very much was, but it reminded me of the interviews with Timmis’ victim… Or that night when Mom had died.
Ordinary people,...
2025-11-04 06:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostI release two days after publishingh were but would people be okay with releasing this episode of orb weaver a day early for Halloween?
2025-10-31 22:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostAgent Stimmons was an older man, walking with a slight limp. He met me at the arrivals terminal, and looked around.
“We have a secure place for your to dress,” he said.
Granted most...
2025-10-30 19:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun started to go down and I was still on the road. It turned out that a casual walk in a snowy field on vacation was a lot easier—and slower—than trying to push yourself on a highway litte...
2025-10-30 03:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe PRT booked a business flight up to Boston. I could have taken the bus, but they insisted. And then the flight attendants, quite coincidentally, upgraded Taylor Hebert, ordinary student, to firs...
2025-10-27 22:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostNote, this occurs during the investigations arc, but it's a "one off" story, like a lot of the old pulp issues that were a short story separated out from any larger plot threads. The first chapter ...
2025-10-22 00:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostI headed out at the first crack of “dawn” the sun still more or less obscured by the clouds. Even accounting for that, it seemed oddly dim compared to back home.
But I shouldered the rope...
2025-10-20 06:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
For sorcerers and snow. initial terribad sketch by me, the rest by the abominable intelligence.
2025-10-18 04:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unquiet Dead.
In the known world, most civilized nations cremate their dead, either with or without a viewing period. That is because of the Unquiet Dead. Ranging from sapient and malevol...
2025-10-16 20:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I got back home I was tired but… jittery.
Dad was camped out in the living room, like he expected me to make a break for it.
Ridiculous.
Neither Coil nor the ABB were curre...
2025-10-16 07:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours passed and the snow fall and winds slowly started to decline. Better, the darkness around the covered windows started to vanish.
I pulled out my watch, a gift when I’d first b...
2025-10-13 07:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t believe she’s a thinker, at least not as some are seeing it.” Dr. Lori Manstern was an older Woman, actually a contemporary of William Manton, but where that vanished man had focus...
2025-10-11 05:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post