***Nema***
“May their bones tumble about the wastes forever,” Nema cursed around the gor root between her teeth as she rubbed the faint hand marks off of her arms. The most recent alterca...
2021-09-07 22:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Heave!” Tom shouted to no one in particular. It was just him and Suzie, tugging on a leather strap looped around the truck’s hitch.
The red sun beat down on them as they pulled, trying...
2021-09-07 22:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Suzie no. No. NO. Suzie NO!”
Tom and Suzie made eye contact. The frog familiar’s tongue began to slowly reach toward the fat-pan, as if he wouldn’t be able to see it if she ...
2021-09-04 20:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post***AWAKE***
Tom’s eyes snapped open. The first thing he noticed was that it was cold! An involuntary shiver swept through his entire body as he gasped.
The second ...
2021-09-03 19:49:40 +0000 UTC View Post***DREAM***
Tom walked back toward the hollowed-out mobile home where Reese and Jacob had died. Her neighbors hid in their own hovels, peering furtively out at Tom, presumably unab...
2021-09-01 19:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn the middle of an endless ocean of desolate cracked earth, there was a single monument taller than the occasional stubborn gnarled bush hanging on for dear life for the yearly rains. 2021-08-30 17:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Feel free to jump in the comments with suggestions and questions about the next arc in addition to the vote.
The Endless was a fun boogeyman, and I've got an interesting idea how I...
2021-08-27 02:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post***The Hall of Worlds, Kinzena, Deraan continent.***
Sasha Honnekun wiped her sweaty palms on her bright white healer’s jerkin for probably the hundredth time.
The tension was palpabl...
2021-08-26 18:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostTom forgot that Carol had eyes, ears, and a brain. She heard what he heard, and saw what he saw.
The Outsider was slamming the belt of ammo into place and had engaged the first rou...
2021-08-25 20:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, got that taken care of,” Carol said cheerfully, wedging the machine gun in the back of the sedan. The weapon was too big to fit in gracefully, and Carol spent a minute finagling it in...
2021-08-24 21:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post“On the planet Orsoth, on the Deraan continent, where the sun, water, and fertile soil create a veritable paradise for great civilizations to rise to prominence, there exists dozens of kingdoms v...
2021-08-23 19:14:35 +0000 UTC View Post***Tom***
“911, what’s your emergency?”
There’s a bunch of murderous LARPers on the 88th interstate, mile 105.
….
“Sir?”
Tom...
2021-08-20 17:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post***AWAKE***
The swelling had really set in, and Tom’s face felt like the Toxic Avenger’s, all swollen and throbbing in the most grotesque way.
Honestly, Tom was aching for ...
2021-08-19 16:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post***DREAM***
“I fucking warned you,” Ken’s voice came across the phone.
“Shut up Ken and listen to me very closely. I’m about to do you a huge favor. I’m gonna s...
2021-08-18 03:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post***Tom Graves***
“We’re gonna be alright, son,” Grampa said over the phone. “Somebody got that bastard through the window. She’s right outside, taking care of an accomplice or somet...
2021-08-17 20:06:21 +0000 UTC View PostTom’s brain went from his typical sleepy idle to a blistering hundred miles an hour as his body dumped adrenaline into his veins.
First, he analyzed every hostage/revenge phone call he’d ...
2021-08-16 15:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell was that?” Tom asked.
The young man lying on the grass looked confused for a moment before wincing and grabbing his forehead.
“I’m sorry, I must have just prophes...
2021-08-13 16:48:17 +0000 UTC View PostSo I wanna prove I can finish a story, and I’d like to spend 2022 making that happen for at least one series.
It’s just downright unhealthy having so many unfinished series. So, by order ...
2021-08-12 22:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post***Chris Evans***
Tap, tap, tap, tap tap taptaptap
“You got somewhere to be?” Chris asked, glancing over at Ken, whose shoe was clicking against the laminate outside the pr...
2021-08-12 17:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe material a spell phrase is composed of is more important than anything save the spell phrase itself.
Material spells are part art, part science. There have been many attempts...
2021-08-11 17:45:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Then it is agreed. House Ku’leth is to be removed, root and stem.” The grizzled head of house Kinzena said. “These ‘crypts’ that allow any common-blooded peasant to imitate their bette...
2021-08-11 05:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Mi dealer's casa es su casa.” Jacob said, gesturing expansively to the double-wide trailer with the sagging flooring and scent of mold.
“Two nights.” The woman on ...
2021-08-10 01:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm taking a trip down to Oregon to visit my wife's grandmother.
2 weeks, from the 9th to the 23rd.
I've got my laptop, and I'll try my best to maintain a high level of output, ...
***DREAM***
“What the hell is a key fob?” Tom demanded, grinding the muzzle of the gun into Chris’s bleeding face.
Tom was currently holed up in the interrogation room, with the d...
2021-08-06 20:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post***Chris Evans***
A burst of adrenaline allowed Chris to catch the kid’s hand before he got himself killed, forcing it back down to his side.
“Shut your mouth,” He whispered, wran...
2021-08-05 20:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostChris Evans studied the kid in front of him. Tom Graves had pale skin, brown hair, and a frankly exotic face complete with brown eyes that seemed to appear brighter at times, orange or gold in the ...
2021-08-04 22:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post***Kenneth Peterson***
That could have gone worse, Ken thought, blinking burning tears out of his eyes as he drove. He could be dead right now, face bit off by a goddamn mountain lio...
2021-08-03 19:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostTom did smell smoke. He saw it, too, rolling across the ceiling from the basement door.
The house was on fire.
Grampa built the place back in the seventies before the sprawl of...
2021-08-02 21:53:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, let me get this straight. The demon spirits who are going to inhabit the skeleton have resumes?” Jacob asked incredulously as Tom flipped through a sheaf of aged papyrus with th...
2021-07-30 21:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh, kid’s alive,” Ken said, watching the local news on his living room TV.
Thomas Graves was wearing a blanket, sitting in the back of an ambulance, with a thousand-yard stare, a cup ...
2021-07-29 21:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post