Here is part 2 of the pilot chapter, now renamed with the new story title. Once I'm sure there's not going to be a part 3, I'll delete this and the other one and combine them into one c...
2024-09-10 15:11:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey, everyone! Finally got the pilot chapter of Haunted House Flippers ready. I should be starting full-time writing of it soon, which means throwttling back on the Demesne snippets (an...
2024-09-06 14:07:45 +0000 UTC
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"Hey, Umu. Let me help you with that."
"Oh, Rian! It's fine, I can carry it all by myself."
"Nonsense. I'm pretty sure I have clothes in there, so it's only fair I help you carry them."...
2024-09-04 09:19:40 +0000 UTC
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Even a small village needed a lot of metalwork done everyday. Not all of it was forging. There was a lot of honing and straightening, because someone was always hold something the wrong way and ben...
2024-09-01 17:03:43 +0000 UTC
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Set before chapter 417
"So, how's married life, Riz?" Mekari said as they worked on stripping the branches off the tree they were working on. "Still having f...
2024-08-29 16:03:11 +0000 UTC
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Riz had been avoiding her family ever since she'd started sleeping with Rian—and Mikon and Umu technically, since they all shared the same bed. This wasn't out of any sort of dislike or personal ...
2024-08-26 07:34:00 +0000 UTC
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Riz woke up when she felt the bed shifting underneath her. For a moment, she was confused, since the pillow she was laying one was firmer than she was expecting, and surprisingly warm—
Oh.<...
2024-08-21 14:35:50 +0000 UTC
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There was nothing a doctor liked more than not having anything to do.
At least, not having anything to do as a doctor. All of them had little things to do when they were either waiting for pe...
2024-08-19 10:57:41 +0000 UTC
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So, a short update everyone! The rewrites and slightly expanded segments of volume 1 are finished, so I just have to write some Amazon exclusive short segments and commission some artwork and then ...
2024-08-17 10:15:47 +0000 UTC
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I stood under one of the few trees near our village—I refused to call it 'Lori's Village' or anything like that—looking up at the branches above as I held open a sack, one of the canvas sacks t...
2024-08-16 13:55:34 +0000 UTC
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"Are you sure you want to do this? We've never really done this before…"
A hand slapped down, making a meaty sound. "Come on. I have years of militia debauchery I need to catch up on."
<...
2024-08-14 15:00:01 +0000 UTC
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So, a minor note about the tech-levels in this story. I've come to hate how in some stories the isekai protagonist is always the ONLY person who somehow makes technology progress. Magic and technol...
2024-08-12 14:38:02 +0000 UTC
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Because they had so much, the number of people in the demesne grew and grew. Even with plenty, the people of the demesne would not be content. They wanted more. Those who wanted more began to build...
2024-08-09 16:22:16 +0000 UTC
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Shasha, tell me a story…
What kind of story would you like?
Something boring. I can't sleep.
Well, as of today, all the meat we have in the cold rooms amounts to—
Not th...
2024-08-07 14:16:21 +0000 UTC
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There were always some fruits left over, too bruised or ripe by the time they'd been picked. It wasn't a lot, and they were still perfectly edible. In times past, no one would have thought twice ab...
2024-08-05 15:05:20 +0000 UTC
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It Will Always Be Waiting
2024-08-01 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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While Shanalorre knew practically nothing about Deadspeaking, becoming the Dungeon Binder of River's Fork had given her the ability to perceive all life in her demesne, in the same way that Lori wa...
2024-07-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Two days proved sufficient to relieve Lori of the urge to check her notes. The act of having to decipher and in some cases correct her own notes had made her stop wanting to do so, and while her ha...
2024-07-28 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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"Don't you have something you need to be doing?" Lori said as she imbued the binding of lightwisps she'd formed. Technically, she already knew how to make piercing light. However, the one she'd lea...
2024-07-25 16:00:58 +0000 UTC
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It had been a very nice day. Everyone had played in the dungeon, climbed trees to get happyfruit that was growing fast thanks to Wiz Tae and Shana, they played in the river while Karina had gotten ...
2024-07-24 18:38:28 +0000 UTC
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After literally days of being pressed, Lori's notes were finally mostly flat, although little lines from where they'd been curled or folded had become weak points on the sheets. She carefully separ...
2024-07-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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"I'd like to apologize for what I said yesterday, and for being tardy with my apology. While I still believe my course of action was prudent at the time, despite later events, how I went about it w...
2024-07-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The Abomination
Once they arrived in the dome of River's Fork, work began quickly. Yllian had met them with a large group of able-bodied men that had been sent yeste...
2024-07-20 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It turned out that Shanalorre could not, in fact, confirm that the abomination was dead, at least not this soon.
"While the abomination might technically be dead, most of the life in its body...
2024-07-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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When the typhon abomination moved, Lori expected the ground to shake and a vibration like a deep bass drum to spread with every footfall… which was silly, because such things were merely theater ...
2024-07-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Once they arrived in the dome of River's Fork, work began quickly. Yllian had met them with a large group of able-bodied men that had been sent yesterday to prepare for today, as well as—Lori che...
2024-07-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Not Actually Trying To Procrastinate
As much as she wanted to, Lori wasn't able to test the enlarged lightning ball on a living subject. Trying to put a seel into th...
2024-07-13 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So, a quick announcement. Looking on how much is left, this volume of demesne is likely to end this month or early to mid next month. At that point, I'm going to take a little break as I once more ...
2024-07-13 04:59:54 +0000 UTC
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When Lori woke up the next day, she felt strangely miserable, and it had nothing to do with the loud knocking on her door. That was its own, separate misery.
A third misery was added as a lou...
2024-07-11 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Lori hadn't stayed up late to work in a while. That period when she'd been taking notes didn’t count, as she barely remembered it as anything but a haze of tiredness. Most days, she'd just go str...
2024-07-09 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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