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Chapter 171 - Kalazar, The Wretched

Talia raked her claws across the demon’s abdomen, slicing through the blackened flesh with ease. Even as she disemboweled the creature, it retaliated with a roaring overhand strike with a jagged-...

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Chapter 170 - In the Aftermath

Abby looked down on Zeke’s shattered body, trying her best to keep the horror dancing in her mind from infecting her expression. She had always known that Zeke was powerful. Though she didn’t a...

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Mistrunner - Chapter 7 - Equipment Equals Survival

I’ve always thought of myself as a hard man. I was never entirely pitiless, but I could kill without much remorse. However, the moment I saw the myriad ways people had been taken advantage of...

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Weekly Check-In

I've been working toward that last chapter for a while, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I had a great time writing it, and I hope everyone's enjoyed reading it as well.   View Post

Chapter 169 - Real Power

Zeke swung his mace two-handed, the attack shattering a demon’s horn before continuing on to crush its skull to red-and-black paste. Keeping his momentum going in a spin, he ducked beneath a reac...

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Chapter 168 - A Promising Start

“Careful, now,” cautioned Tucker, cradling the bundle of grenades as gently as he could manage. “One wrong move…”

“I know,” Carlos said, extending a shadow spear. As soon as he ...

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Mistrunner - Chapter 6 - The Bazaar

Please be aware that, in preparation for the Kindle and Audible release (on Nov. 29), I've removed the first 53 chapters of Death: Genesis.  

When I first obtained m...

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Chapter 167 - A Simple Plan

ANNOUNCEMENT: Just in case anyone's missed it, I wanted to make sure that everyone's aware that the first 53 chapters are going to be coming down on the 13th.  I'm doing this in prepar...

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Chapter 166 - Road Trip

ANNOUNCEMENT: Just in case anyone's missed it, I wanted to make sure that everyone's aware that the first 53 chapters are going to be coming down on the 13th.  I'm doing this in prepar...

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Mistrunner - Chapter 5 - Give and Take

Losing Helena nearly broke me. When it didn’t, my grief was replaced by fury. After spending years in the military, I thought I had seen the depths to which a man could sink. I hadn...

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Weekly Check-In

I'm not sure how many of you are writers, but sometimes, you get into that zone where the words just start spilling onto the page, almost on their own.  In those moments, it can feel like the ...

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Chapter 165 - The Next Step

Tucker slowly dripped the demon boar’s gallbladder extract into the vial, his hands steady and his concentration unwavering. With each drop, he used his skill [Infuse Mana], hold...

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Chapter 164 - Purity

The ground shook under the creature’s massive weight, and Zeke took an inadvertent step backward. As he did so, he belatedly remembered to use his inspection skill:

Ramul, Lord of t...

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Mistrunner - Chapter 4 - The Great Lie

We thought we were at war, and we mistakenly believed we had a chance. Little did we know that we’d already lost before the first shot had even been fired. Earth was never meant to win. The b...

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Chapter 163 - A Very Bad Place

Zeke reached the edge of the tower’s aura, but he hesitated to cross the threshold. In addition to the transformation the building had undergone, the aura itself had been affected by the demon re...

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Chapter 162 - The Search Continues

Zeke sat on the bed, shirtless and with his shoulders slumped. For a few seconds, Abby stood in the doorway of their bedroom, just staring at his broad back. It was crisscrossed with scars; some we...

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Mistrunner - Chapter Three - Lessons Learned

I tried so hard, but we were all alone in the wilderness. Seventeen kids, me, and one other adult. None of them had even a semblance of survival training. Only me. I did everything I could to p...

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Weekly Check-In (10/1/2022)

Alright, so we're on the downslope of the latest Death: Genesis arc, but there are still some cool things in store.  I've been waiting to do some of this stuff for 160 chapters, so I'm really ...

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Chapter 161 - Hellscape

At some point, the tower had added a few things to its aura. Most notably, instead of simply warding off less powerful beasts by draining their power, it also came with an air of vitality that made...

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Chapter 160 - Far From Home

Suddenly, Zeke found himself lying facedown on the ground. Even before he opened his eyes, he knew something was different. The ground was neither the comforting dirt that made up Oberon’s floati...

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Mistrunner - Chapter Two - Back to Reality

We fought so hard to survive the Initialization, so when we finally reached equilibrium with our new and far more dangerous world, we thought we’d won a great victory. In reality, the fight h...

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Chapter 159 - A Flayed Soul

Zeke’s eyes fluttered open, but all he saw was blackness. However, unlike the comforting embrace of nothingness that he’d experienced before being reborn, he got the feeling that the pervasive ...

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Chapter 158 - War

Abraham Micayne sat at his desk, his long, thin fingers steepled as he stared ahead into nothingness. Nothing had gone right since he’d made that deal with Constance. On the surface, it had seeme...

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Mistrunner: Chapter 1 - A Worthy Pursuit

So - this is the new story.  I went back and forth on what to work on in my spare time, and after seeing that there really weren't a lot of science fiction LitRPG stories available, I ...

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Weekly Check-In

Okay, so the cliffhanger really wasn't intentional here.  I hate to leave you all hanging over the weekend, but I kind of have a strict posting schedule from which I really don't want to devia...

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Chapter 157 - Unequal to the Task

Everything happened all at once.

One second, the warlock, whose name was Julian Asino, was giving a villain’s monologue, and the next, everyone attacked. Abby’s initial salvo hadn’t don...

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Chapter 156 - Warlock

“Zeke!” Abby yelled from behind him.

Zeke couldn’t spare a moment to turn, so without deviating from his task, he shouted, “What? Kind of busy here!”

As if to punctuate his st...

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Chapter 155 - Worthy Foes

Like a tidal wave of dull, red flesh, the horde crashed into Zeke, nearly overwhelming him with the sheer weight of so many hulking bodies. Only the most powerful of the demons had survived the fal...

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Chapter 154 - The Sky is Falling

“Are you sure about this?” asked Tucker, casting a furtive glance in Zeke’s direction. The big warrior held a stone in his hand, but even though Tucker had no talent for runecraft, even he co...

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Weekly Check-In (9/17)

This mini-arc is really heating up, isn't it?  I really enjoyed writing this one, so I'm eager to see how everyone reacts to it.  So, if you have any questions or comments, let me know. View Post