The last week of school before break flew by. I had a bunch of tests to get ready for, and not just the regular end of semester tests everyone had to take. I guess Vice Principal Ford had been payi...
2025-02-10 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPort Caolros
Admiral Valdar wished he could have stayed on his ship. At least his quarters there, cramped as they were, had a comfortable chair for him to sit on. The tempora...
2025-02-08 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: I somehow had some duplicate text when I copied this over from my writing program. Should be fixed now.
“What if I say something stupid?” Eduardo said, not quite...
2025-02-07 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I got back a rough sketch from my artists who's doing the image that will be the main art for Blackstar Legacy, and I couldn't wait till it's done to show you guys. I'm blown away by how good the ...
2025-02-06 16:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“You’re here very early,” Lucan’s voice came from behind him.
Hortensius stood from the small furnace that he’d been adjusting, looking up to see the s...
2025-02-05 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNote: So I clearly missed the mark on the first go around of this, because most people's reads of the chapter where far off from what I was going for. Here is another try at this chapter a...
2025-02-02 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI stumbled down the stairs still squinting from light that was just a little too bright. It was almost noon and I’d slept half the day away, but since this was the first day of vacation, that was...
2025-01-31 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI set a glass pitcher on the dining room table and double-checked the place settings. We’d moved a few chairs around to make space, and Dad had insisted we use the “nice” tablecloth, the one ...
2025-01-29 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCarthage
The city was quiet as it turned to evening. Winter in Africa was a far cry from how it was in Ériu, but even without the thickly packed snow, the pace slowed down t...
2025-01-28 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy headache and most of the soreness was gone by Monday morning, but Mr. Lassiter still had me come by first thing, even before I started training with Coach Greer, so he could check me out again.<...
2025-01-26 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was weird, opening my eyes, waking up with the dark sky and stadium lights above me. It took me a second to even remember where I was, let alone why I was lying on the ground.
The world re...
2025-01-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOsric crouched near a spot of level ground just out of sight of the road, clearing enough rocks and brush to make a good space for his friends to camp.
It had been a difficult day, at least t...
2025-01-23 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, whatever annoyed Melanie wore off by the end of the day, and we talked on the phone that night for almost an hour. The fact that I had to do it sitting on the couch, with the cord wrapp...
2025-01-21 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCarthage
Another body found floating in the harbor. That made for two so far this month, along with a man stabbed in an alley, a woman whose neck was broken when she inexplic...
2025-01-19 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone was ecstatic as we got back into the fieldhouse to get changed, roughhousing and joking, sailing high on our victory.
Well, almost everyone.
“Blake! In my office. Now!”
... 2025-01-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIllyrian-Macedonian Border
Modius leaned against a dead, twisted juniper and surveyed the slope ahead of them. The ground was covered in a mixture of snow and rock, alternati...
2025-01-16 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of homecoming went well. We all went to dinner, joked and had a good time, and I put the stuff with Kenneth out of my mind. Odds were, if she did have a thing for him, it was one sided. I ...
2025-01-14 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving travelers to make their way south as best they could, they turned back north. Thankfully, the days had been uneventful, although the road was indeed nearly empty, as the travelers had...
2025-01-13 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMelanie wasn’t exactly cold to me the next day at school, but things after our disastrous study session seemed off all day. It was homecoming day and everything was crazy, so maybe it was just th...
2025-01-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI hurried into the gym, rushing enough I nearly slipped on the recently polished floor on my way in. I’d told Li at lunch I didn’t think I could make it to the tryouts because I had practice at...
2025-01-09 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWest African Coast
‘I must be insane to have the whole fleet out in this weather,’ Valdar thought as the deck heaved beneath him as another massive wave crashed against h...
2025-01-08 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday we played L.D. Bell High School. I’d already played their freshman team in an away game early in the season, but this time we were playing at home, which meant we didn’t have to do the...
2025-01-06 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn’t actually get the lock on the door until Friday afternoon. Dad wanted to wait until mom was out of the house to ‘not cause an argument,’ which I guess I could see the point of. But i...
2025-01-04 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI'm reworking the chapter that just sent, ignore it, it wasn't finished yet and shouldn't have gone out because I'm trying to figure out some changes for chapters 27 and 28. You should see Chapter...
2025-01-04 08:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostWestern Coast of Africa
Valdar stood on the beach surrounded by his men, some of whom were still unloading from the longboats pulled up in the sand. The midwinter ocean breez...
2025-01-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on, I’m just trying to understand what happened,” I said as Eduardo and I walked into the cafeteria.
I’d first asked about his cousins the previous night, after we all finished ...
2024-12-31 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
Hortensius was bone tired as he hurried toward the main munitions factory. They were already stretched trying to work out the larger screw mechanism on the new ship, w...
2024-12-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe ended up staying until the diner kicked us all out around eleven-thirty. While that wasn’t all that late, we’d also played a full football game and two hours each way on a bus. I was about d...
2024-12-27 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
