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Vol. 4 Chap. 16 Looking Down On Those Who Wish To Be Deceived

The undersea journey was uneventful. Truth watched Butler train the former desk clerk. He realized that, if he had ever heard their name, he had forgotten it. He had enough self awareness to realiz...

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Since the Vote Was Overwhelming...

Welcome to the first weekly newsletter! The exact format and contents will evolve over time, just to make sure that it stays relevant and doesn't become a burden.

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Vol. 4 Chap. 15 Packing For Home

Truth left the ritual room a little stifled. He still had questions for Merkovah. Many, many questions. About cultivation, about Cup and Knife, about the nature of reality, about ethics, philosophy...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 14 I Didn't Forget

“About that…”

“Yes?” Merkovah asked.

“I found Vig.”

There was a long pause on the line.

“Tell me everything.”

Truth did so, including how frustrating...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 13 The Lone Wolf's Pack

Truth was in a mood the rest of the evening. It was the scope of everything. The sheer enormity of what the System would mean to Jeon. There was one major difference, on paper at least, between wha...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 12 A Public Convenience

Truth ran through a number of options, before concluding that the fastest way to find out how the credit change-over would work was to just go and ask a banker. No need for any elaborate ruses, and...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 11 Uncomplicated

Truth slammed into motion. No use trying to play invisible with a couple dozen cops in the hall running every detection spell they could. He was The Big Bro. The last villain they would ever see. U...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 10 The Old Medici Touch

Truth watched Vig working from a distance. The lady was just barely the wrong side of pretty, and just barely the wrong side of too old, at least next to Vigor. Vig had dressed down, drab clothes c...

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Would you be interested in behind-the-scenes type content?

Basically trying to guage interest in something akin to blog posts where I talk about how I approach writing, sources I am drawing on, what philosophers and historical figures I am looking at, that...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 9 To Elevate and Bring Low

Truth woke to fiendish luxury, stretched indulgently, and sighed contentedly. He took a moment to contemplate what to do with the day. He examined his hand. Long, strong fingers. Well shaped. No sc...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 8 Active Leasure

Truth quickly considered Mary’s request. He was The Prince, and the core of the Prince was power- the power to rule over others. This meant securing the willing cooperation of his lessers. His pe...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 7 Testing The Cushions on the Throne

Truth woke up. Or not. There was a long moment, impossible to say how long, where he lay in bed paralyzed by the sensation of unreality. The keening scream of the System faded into a high-pitched w...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 6 The Goddess of the Night

The boat sailed down the wide, twilight street, cheered on by the entire polis. The sail was nothing less than the peplos that would adorn the giant statue of the goddess, lovingly embroid...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 5 A Man Without Compassion

The Prince appeared without warning. The supposedly locked door to Mary’s Garden opened, the recording talismans unable to capture his radiance. Tall, hair the color of a moonless night, eyes lik...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 4 A Certain Kind of Way

Truth picked the first recliner and got comfortable. Then convulsively shivered and got even more comfortable. This might well be the single most comfortable chair he had ever sat in. Supportive, y...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 3 Boys on the Docks

Conjin felt off. Not in the sense of it being a trap, in the sense that Truth couldn’t feel the logic of the place. The geography threw him. It was another instance of Truth's education not givin...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 2 A Certain Airiness

Truth had never expected life to be fair. The concept had never occurred to him. It did, however, seem noticeably unfair that he kept finding himself running through the countryside in sea...

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Vol. 4 Chap. 1 The Ecology of Life and Death

Truth kept quiet. There wasn’t any benefit to lying to the seniors, but he didn’t know what to say, either. The mists had enclosed the hot spring now, the green trees on the mountain had blurre...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 65 Living National Treasures

Truth kept his breathing steady. Incisive hadn’t warned him, so these two were not a threat. Probably. At least for the next few fractions of a second. They looked melted in the hot water of the ...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 64 On The Side Of The Angels

Truth hung in a void of fuzzy gray. Bursts of color and noise break in and fade away without cause or sense. It was a void so total, his mind was inventing stimuli. He didn’t know how long he was...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 63 A Righteous Cause

Truth didn’t look back a second longer. He knew what was behind him. All that mattered was forward. Or more to the point, away. There was enough magical force coming his way to level a s...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 62 The Rubble of a Dream

The few survivors were shattered, exhausted. Confused. Hurting. Their energy had been spent to the last drop, keeping themselves alive any way they could. They were very smart, possessed of abundan...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 61 Cut Flowers

The floating sky-lily was tilting over. Systems were exploding now or activating without reason. Mindlessly running. The defenses raked the village, shattering homes, shattering the streets. Shatte...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 60 Catharsis

The dim twilight was no hindrance to Truth- he watched the needle fly towards the wards through the magnifier. It hit the ward… and went straight through. He lost track of it there, but he didn...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 59 Whatever The Boss Says It Is

Truth sat in Borges’ living room. The deadly coin was safely trapped under one of the doctor’s slippers, waiting to be scooped up and returned to the shelf. He needed a moment. It was all kind ...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 58 Homemaker

Truth felt the security systems brush past him, like walking through cobwebs. Knowing that somewhere in them, spiders still hunted. His work cracking the system, his own spells, and the seeming “...

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Art Contest!

So, in case you haven't heard, somehow- Slumrat Rising Vol. 1 is getting released Nov. 7 on Amazon Kindle, KU and Audible. I know, I have been very secretive about this fact, and I apologize. Paper...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 57 Happy Wife, Happy Life

Truth got up a little before dawn and made his way back towards the village. The information he got from Merkovah had listed Doctor Borges’ address and included pictures of the house. Truth thoug...

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Vol. 3 Chap. 56 Nose Against The Window

Truth knew that it was dangerous to make assumptions without enough information. Paranoid speculation, however, was different. He would explain how, but some bastard would take advantage. Right now...

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Run Up To Launch on Nov. 7 = Good News For Patrons

Let's jump right into it- I'm increasing the chapters-ahead benefit for every tier by five. Prices are ...

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