The furthest depths of the Earth’s oceans are home to many a bizarre creature, but there are few more strange and terrifying than the order of Lophiiformes, more commonly known as the anglerfish....
2020-12-19 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCoiled around the scarred steps of his great ziggurat, Rothgorad the Serpent King watched his servants stream skyward, shedding their bodies as he might shed his skin. He could do nothing for t...
2020-12-19 11:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for all the support, everyone!
I've suspended all monthly payments for 1 January and will do the same for 1 February. New or returning patrons will probably still be charged the initia...
2020-12-19 11:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostSilence stretched as they surveyed the smoking rubble and ash and crackling timber of what had once been the Vintonjorg town hall. Protruding from a nearby ash pile was a blackened hand, its finger...
2020-12-05 13:01:20 +0000 UTC View PostRising high above the town of Vintonjorg, Saskia watched as several Blightguards tied makeshift tourniquets around the severed stumps of their comrade’s wrists. His hands lay in a pool of crimson...
2020-11-21 16:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post---------
Author's note: It's 4 am in my part of the world as I finish writing this, so apologies in advance for any mistakes my sleep-deprived brain might have missed.
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2020-11-07 17:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Och how the chairs are turned,” said Ruhildi. “Methinks ’tis the right Earth expression.”
“Tables,” said Saskia with a scowl—one that went sadly unnoticed, given her present ...
2020-10-24 13:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostIt was time.
Plunging through the silent dark, her body quivered in anticipation of the meal to come. Stronger than gravity, stronger than fate, the weight of souls was reeling h...
2020-10-10 11:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe light behind her eyes dimmed. Blinking away the afterimage, Saskia found herself in a circular tunnel, seemingly made of the same kind of stone as the gate she’d just entered. There was no si...
2020-09-26 12:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostSaskia stared at the dome-shaped ruins standing alone amidst the featureless expanse of red sand. She spent several seconds trying to find words to adequately describe the depths of her frustration...
2020-09-12 10:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post---------
Author's note: Another Undermind chapter! It's been a while.
I've actually begun to sour a bit on the other novel, Dupes. I still like the overall concept, and I have interest...
2020-08-29 09:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post---------
Author's note: I said I might occasionally post new Undermind chapters while I'm in the midst of edits and writing the standalone novel, so here's one. I usually sit on chapters for...
2020-07-25 08:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 8: Killing Me
My clones, understandably, weren’t too thrilled at the idea of being sacrificed on the altar of self-discovery. But surely they understood the n...
2020-07-11 11:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 7: On the Run
The three of me crouched behind a hedge outside the Outside Inn. It was actually more of a motel, despite the name—with rooms that opened out in...
2020-07-04 07:17:05 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 6: Blue Murder
Bugger! I should have expected this.
More than three minutes had passed since the enforcers’ ultimatum, and they thought I was working fo...
2020-06-27 05:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 5: Blue Screen of Death
Moh looked between me and the other me. He rubbed his forehead, as though trying to knead away a pounding headache.
“Explain,”...
2020-06-20 08:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 4: Fred Dead Resorption
I was at the Academy when it happened. A wave of disorientation washed over me, as if I’d just downed half a bottle of whiskey. Next t...
2020-06-13 12:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 3: M3
I didn’t know what I was, or whether I was even a real person, but holy shit, this was exciting!
When we first determined that the other Fritz was...
2020-06-06 10:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostDupes Chapter 2: Me Two
“Who the hells are you?” my doppelgänger asked.
“Fritz Baine,” I told him. “Who the hells are you?”
“Is this a joke?” he ...
2020-05-30 13:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post---------
Author's note: So here it is. The start of what I'm expecting to be a new stand-alone novel, tentatively named Dupes. You may see some ideas in common with Undermin...
2020-05-23 13:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was different. Saskia knew it on an instinctual level the instant she awoke. The pain was gone, but it was more than that. There was something…lighter about her. And it wasn’t just th...
2020-05-16 13:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostHe sat atop the craggy peak, feeling the cool, crisp air whistle across his bark. Below stretched a wide expanse of sunlit trees and snow-dappled hills and gentle rivers wending their way lazily th...
2020-05-09 10:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostSaskia stared at the grotesque fusion of flesh and machine splayed out before her, and the shrivelled torso and head enmeshed in its core. The cybernetic monstrosity filled the room, but on her min...
2020-05-02 11:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe little girl scratched her chalk across the concrete, hand working furiously to bring to life a fading dream. So absorbed was she in her task that she didn’t immediately react to the shado...
2020-04-25 11:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post“We are all going to die, yes?” said Zarie, ever the optimist.
“Probably,” said Kveld.
“Bollocks to both of you,” said Baldreg. “’Tisn’t the time for defeatism. ’Tis...
2020-04-18 09:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post---------
Author's note: Two short-ish chapters this week, instead of one big one.
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Saskia was getting a major feeling of deja vu. It was exactly as it had been in her dr...
2020-04-18 09:34:33 +0000 UTC View PostStanding beneath the high stone column, Saskia peered into eternity. Atop the pillar, an ouroboros; a frozen flame. They called to her. He called to her.
For some, this worldseed...
2020-04-11 13:58:25 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the back of his fire dracken, Anduis looked out across the sea of Grongarg to the distant island where his master, Okael had fought his mistress, Sarthea. The latter had slain the former, ...
2020-04-04 11:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post“I think we’ve found our smoking gun,” said Liz, the silver-haired Unveiler. She stood at the door of Saskia’s cabin with Vincent and John. The guys bobbed their heads in unison, as if to u...
2020-03-28 08:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn a contest between air and fire, most rational people would bet on air. Fire couldn’t exist without air. Air could create lightning, which burned hotter than the surface of the sun, albeit only...
2020-03-21 08:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post