“Brendon’s power doesn’t seem to exist until the moment it’s activated.” Marigold mused, peering into the still-room. It was difficult pumping out essences and any other sort of supernatu...
2024-06-05 16:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostClaudette’s kid…he took Chicago. So there’s a chance I’ll track down that doll Professor Replica is wearing there.
Any sane person would take the professor to a...
2024-06-03 15:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Brick Eagle, you have eaten of the fruit of the tree, and slept in her boughs.” Spider Monkey said, putting the crown made of clumsily woven branches over Brendon’s head.
It poked in p...
2024-05-29 17:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostA golden beam of essence leapt from Gramma’s finger and struck the mimic in the chest. A moment later, it was reduced to ash. Perry’s rapier clattered to the ground, glowing red hot where it ma...
2024-05-24 15:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post“You can…tell if someone is a mimic…,” Stacy Watt-powers said, forcing the words through gritted teeth. She could feel beads of sweat forming on her brow as she starte...
2024-05-21 16:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, let’s think this over, Perry thought as the Mimic lunged away from the wall, charging at him while a swirl of essence coalesced into a potent spell designed to paralyze him en...
2024-05-17 15:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re starting to piss me off, kid,” Solaris said, raising a hand over Perry’s face. “You’ve given me almost as much trouble as John, but I think it’s about time you-”
“It...
2024-05-14 17:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostYou may remember I posted a splash page art for ISM last month. here's the current iteration with rough color-work done.
I know Nat is maybe a bit too small, but my editor can probably fix t...
Chain Quest Advanced!
Establish a beach-head on Manita.
With Queen and Heirs present in the settlement, the foothold of y...
2024-05-10 16:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostPerry didn’t think he could get exhausted from a simple all-nighter anymore, being seven-hundred times more resistant to the after-effects.
Apparently he just needed the proper amount of st...
2024-05-07 15:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostChemestro couldn’t get out.
Wherever…whatever he was stuck in, he couldn’t get back.
He floated outside of reality itself like a ghost, sensing the humming vibrations that were So...
2024-05-02 16:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostGretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation.exe
Another enormous segment of the factory went up in the amount of time it took Perry to blink.
Now another.
<... 2024-04-30 15:34:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Behold!” Perry said, holding up the new-and-improved Mimic Litmus Test 9000. It had been a serious pain in the ass marrying both a mild sedative and a variant of Astra’s mending to the regul...
2024-04-25 16:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so for a long time now, I've been trying to nudge Solaris and Perry into conflict, and took a huge step forward towards that end today.
Insomuch as it's still 'Solaris' I guess.
“Here it is,” Guile said, handing Truthslayer the medicine.
“How’d you get these?” the black-haired superheroine murmured, opening the case and peering inside.
Inside were fou...
2024-04-23 17:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
So I figured the team's fight with Karth would make for a good splash page. Here's the 1st draft sketch. I wa...
“So what now?” Heather asked.
“Now…we pray one of the venoms we acquired will do what we need it to do,” Perry muttered. He already knew which one he was banking on, but it was best...
2024-04-19 16:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post“That seems like the last of ‘em.” Australia Man said, cleaning off his bloody boomerang, a simple piece of lacquered wood that shouldn’t have been able to hold up to the punishment it had ...
2024-04-16 16:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've been learning to use Google Ads, trying to figure out how advertising works and grow my skills as a self-employed author, and I came across this intriguing option that they have.
It'...
Perry hit Lam at the same time as he finished casting Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation.
Gretchen’s Idyllic Manifestation.exe
Rather than get fancy with it,...
2024-04-12 15:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post“That we are,” Australia Man said, nodding. “If Australia is shrinking, then you know I’m going to have an opinion on that.”
“Yes. I’m sure I can guess your opinion…fairly acc...
2024-04-09 18:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostPerry watched Heather’s confusion skyrocket as she glanced around the serious faces.
“Is someone going to explain to me what The Butthole is?” she asked, arms crossed.
“The Butt...
2024-04-05 16:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I'm getting older and trying to advance my craft with this whole self-publishing thing, and a problem I've run into several times now, is not owning enough art to satisfy amazon and Google in o...
2024-04-03 17:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post“So those ant grenades you saw, they use those as both a weapon and a food source. The ants turn all the biomass in a certain area into dead ants, which the humpbacks can easily transpor...
2024-04-02 18:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Uugh…” Nat groaned into the sheets, a sticky, panting mess, her long black hair strewn across the bed and her shaking form.
“You’re welcome,” Perry said, tugging his pants back o...
2024-03-29 15:17:21 +0000 UTC View Post“This is…” Darryl was at a loss for words to describe exactly how bad things were. Nobody knew who was a mimic and who wasn’t. The streets were rife with paranoia. Nobody went outside. Nobo...
2024-03-26 16:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Nobody move.” Natura whispered.
Everyone froze. Perry was knelt down with his armored hand partway down a hole in the ground with a spider in it. His ground scanner didn’t give him col...
2024-03-22 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhat kind of power armor would be good for Wraith? Perry wondered, while picking out his armor for the trip. She needed something that could flow like a non-newtonian fluid, but harden up ...
2024-03-20 16:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostBendigo was…fine.
It was nighttime on the west coast, so they stepped into mid-day on the other side of the Earth.
Perry stepped out onto the street and immediately felt the chill on ...
2024-03-18 18:47:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was one thing to hear about sapient spiders living in Autralia. I was quite another to see one big enough to eat your kids.
“Do you have a spider-sign dictionary?” Perry asked...
2024-03-15 16:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post