We had a game the next day, which usually meant David and I helped Coach Dean get the equipment we’d need either carried over to the field or packed up for a trip to the bus. Today was a home gam...
2021-11-07 21:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostCamp Lemonnier, Djibouti
The flight took just over twelve uncomfortable hours. White Mountain had acquired a Beechcraft King Air that had clearly seen some miles as a cargo p...
2021-11-05 19:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostChef never made it down for my practice. I knocked on his door when I finished conditioning, dripping in sweat, and he told me to just go home and he’d talk to me later.
I messaged Kat’s ...
2021-11-03 18:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostIf you've read Chapter 26 of Fanfare before today, go back and re-read at least the last third, as there has been a major rewrite of that section completely changing one of the building sub-plots.<...
2021-11-01 16:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor got to his car and pulled out his laptop. He wasn’t a computer person like Whitaker, but he had time to kill and he wanted to do some more research before he got into this. For one, he nee...
2021-10-31 17:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post**The last half of this chapter has been completely rewritten to change a subplot as of 11/1/2021**
Considering what happened at the game on Saturday, I wasn’t surprised to...
2021-10-30 02:38:31 +0000 UTC View PostMy anger over the baseball game had turned into self-pity by the time I got to the Blue Ridge to eat a quick lunch and start training. I could recognize that it was happening; but between Kat’s b...
2021-10-27 13:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostHaymarket, Virginia
Taylor called the number Claire had given him and never made it past the secretary, who left him on hold for ten minutes after getting Taylor’s name, on...
2021-10-25 13:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t surprised when I got to school the next day and Mr. Keller intercepted me and asked me to come to his office. I will say it was a different experience knowing what I was being called int...
2021-10-23 13:08:52 +0000 UTC View PostI started to think I might have made a mistake pushing Hanna by the end of the week. Although we hadn’t ended up on a new normal since I got my car, most days Kat and Hanna would sit in the stand...
2021-10-21 12:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t tell the guys right away, because there was a third person with them when they pulled up. I guessed he was the bass player Seth had been talking about, and I didn’t want to start tal...
2021-10-19 16:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt took hours to round up the survivors and a full day to remove all of the bodies in the streets. Thankfully, there had been little damage outside of the palace, since all of the fighting had been...
2021-10-17 17:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the crowd broke for their horses, it was still slow going to the center of town, with the mass of Romans fleeing increasing, packing together tighter and tighter.
“Leave the hor...
2021-10-17 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostKy watched the centurions and Optio, who’d been sent to help work with the Picts, carry more wounded Romans who’d only volunteered to help train them. So far they had been at this all day, and ...
2021-10-16 19:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostInstead of staying in the palace, Ky relocated to the Seventh Legion’s camp, since they were the closest to where the Picts were being set up. Before settling down for the night, he made a ride t...
2021-10-15 13:23:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe new song, especially the guitar intro, was still on my mind the next day after baseball practice, and I mostly wanted to just get done with training so I could get back home to work on it. All ...
2021-10-14 22:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough he believed Talogren’s word that he would get warriors willing to go south and help defend against the Carthaginian invasion, Ky wasn’t sure he’d actually been successful until the f...
2021-10-13 02:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Have you heard from your lawyer yet?” Kat asked when I met her and Hanna by the stands after baseball practice.
She’d already asked me the same question when we went to school that mor...
2021-10-11 03:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell are you thinking?” Lucilla asked as soon as they began their walk back to the Roman lines.
It had taken them some time to get all of the Romans ready to travel and Ky knew ...
2021-10-08 15:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor stood there, open-mouthed.
“Who is it?” Whitaker called from the other room.
“Come in, I guess,” Taylor said, stepping aside and gesturing for Claire to come inside.
<... 2021-10-07 13:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're following along with the Sword of Jupiter, I just found an error that caused some characters names to change in Chapter 31 (luckily, it was a character that hadn't had a lot of time, so h...
2021-10-05 15:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostKy moved across the frozen terrain at a jog. While he was capable of moving rapidly for a long period of time before tiring, half of his concentration was on the feed from his drone’s thermal cam...
2021-10-05 14:15:36 +0000 UTC View PostI remained on guard around Kat for several days, wondering if there’d be any fallout from my rejection. I’d tried to soften the blow as best I could, but that was one of the major things that t...
2021-10-03 15:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostSomalia, 20 miles east of Berbera
“Scott, do you have that list of the bids,” Cameron Lambert asked, sticking his head over the edge of his cubicle.
“Not yet. We...
2021-10-01 13:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostI was still flying so high the next day from the gig, that it took me a while to realize Kat hadn’t come by like she said she would. While I wasn’t upset that I got out of studying, Kat had pra...
2021-09-29 15:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostKy pinged Lucilla again, but she never answered, although that might have been because they were busy and not because she chose to ignore him. Since he’d been up the entire night before, he had t...
2021-09-27 13:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostEugene met us at the back door when we got to the Wild Cat. I assume he had some kind of camera set up and I do remember his office being pretty close to the back, so it wasn’t that much of a sur...
2021-09-25 14:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostI squished my way into school Friday morning. Mom said she could get my clothes clean, but there wasn’t much we could do about my shoes, which were still pretty wet the next morning. We’d washe...
2021-09-23 15:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostKy’s guards said nothing as they accompanied him the rest of the way to his quarters or as they stood watch outside his room. Had Ky not been so distracted himself, he might have noticed the look...
2021-09-20 14:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the day I thought about Rowan’s suggestions, but between training with Chef, practicing with Willie, homework, and working with Hanna to come up with some kind of plan to help Kat. 2021-09-17 14:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post