Don't get it twisted: PotV is far from over. We are at most at the halfway point and I have story ideas that stretch beyond it, to the point that I'm happy to continue as long as there's interest, ...
2025-08-06 02:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Cover.”
Ajax says it without affect or emotion, like he’s saying excuse me to someone he’s squeezing past. He bolts behind an outcropping, raises his rifle and joins his squ...
2025-08-05 02:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post“What in smoldering hellfire killed the Argosy True?”
Sykora’s shined boots squeak together with the crossing of her legs. She frowns up at the holoprojected image of the Argosy True in...
2025-08-03 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostA trill at Waian’s door interrupts the music momentarily. She dances over to the panel and thwaps her tail against it, as she finishes shimmying her pants on.
The cabin opens to the royal c...
2025-07-30 21:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey move through a thoroughfare tunnel and out into a cavernous space hewn into the volcanic rock. Far below, a gridded field of turbines hang in suspension over a glowing, sizzling lake of fire, ...
2025-07-29 03:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostAnother blaring beep and the treadmill speeds up again. Sweat pours along her back in sheets. She hasn’t been getting sleep. She’s been too busy with Grantyde. She can’t keep running. She can...
2025-07-27 01:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I should have been there,” Ajax says.
“Stop saying that, man.” Grant reaches across the carrier and delivers a light punch to Ajax’s armored shoulder. “We wanted a small escort, ...
2025-07-25 05:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostI know the cliffhanger was irksome. Thank you for your patience. Another quick poll at the end!
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The covers on the bed shift and bunch from the invisible enemy's stagger. The force o...
2025-07-23 00:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all!
In the previous PotV chapter, I faded-to-black on a scene between Grant and Sykora that involved a lil' bit of leash.
This was out of a concern for pacing and the rate of st...
2025-07-21 20:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A few sundry images for you of our cast, fine patrons! Including the closest to canon-Grant we’ll ever get, a very grumpy Brigadier, and the Countess-in-waiting of Korak.
2025-07-21 18:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post“What people don’t get about pea gravel is that you can’t just leave it as it is on a footpath untreated.” Viscountess Vikla continues her lecture as yet another would-be ...
2025-07-21 05:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostTamion’s rim of volcanic hell burns a halo out the window. Sykora watches the eruptions. Her tail threads onto Grant’s arm. He holds it gently. Her snug black dress and her curtain of dark hair...
2025-07-20 03:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello, folks!
In the interest of codifying and expanding the world of PotV as we proceed into Volume IV, I thought I should release a public-facing version of the way in which the Empire is s...
2025-07-17 17:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostYeah I know. the post title. bear with me.
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Axyna leers at them from an easy chair as they emerge from the examination room. “Have fun in there, gals?”
She hops from her s...
2025-07-15 04:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostGrant watches the Taiikar cityscape filter past below them. The trains catch his eye, today, labyrinthine magnetic railways burrowing through a warren of glass tunnels, and crawling funiculars putt...
2025-07-12 05:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello folks! Conversations are advancing for the audio version of my books. Princess of the Void in particular is one that I am very excited to get kicked off.
As we discuss what the...
2025-07-09 19:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostWith this, the fishfuckery is concluded (for now, anyway).
It's been a smut-heavy time for this patreon--we also have an NSFW main story chapter coming up.
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Qiva ambles into th...
2025-07-09 05:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe can’t sweep yet. Sykora desperately scrambles for the puzzle prisms, but they keep slipping from her grip. One of the glass prisms has cracked; she’s desperately trying to piece it back toge...
2025-07-06 05:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out I have one more relatively short chapter to finish this one out. That is coming this weekend along with a regular PotV update. Enjoy, shark-lady fanciers.
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The outer wall o...
2025-07-05 05:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostWaian wakes up and stretches, her leg locking out, shivering like a kindek's, then folding up. The bright golden light of dawn filters in through the window of her cottage.
The tea’s ready;...
2025-07-02 05:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostGrant slides the microphone up his sleeve and finishes tying his laces. He straightens up and nods to the guard. “Damned complicated boots,” he says.
“Sire,” is the guard’s brusque ...
2025-07-01 04:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostSykora sits up. Her lips slip open—underneath her teeth are gritted. “Third touch, second blood, or first to fall?”
“Second blood,” Inadama says.
“Terms,” Sykora says. She...
2025-06-29 16:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks.
This is a weird update--it's going to come after the conclusion of Volume 1 on Royal Road, and it'll be put up on Scribblehub after the fact.
I'm adding this epilogue after v...
2025-06-26 23:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post“I would have an estate,” Sykora says. “On a private island or my own forest. Somewhere remote. You and I would live there with our children. We’d have a stipend to afford anything we wante...
2025-06-26 06:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe shuttle crests past the towering, shaggy treeline and descends into the valley beyond. Its shadow dances across hedgerows and vineyards in shades of orchid and lilac on its way to the mansion a...
2025-06-23 15:48:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello, my friends.
I wanted to take a moment to give some updates here about my stories and the future of my patreon—to be clear it is all good things.
OK, big news first:
I’v...
2025-06-22 22:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostAn impossibly thin strip of sliver stretches from the misty violet forest through the twilit sky, spreading wider and wider as the shuttle approaches, until it’s the width of the Empire State Bui...
2025-06-20 05:40:31 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s all women,” Talem says. “Wonder why.”
On the ready room camera bank, they watch the drone feed as it follows the Eqtoran patrol squad. Pentine is here as their proctor, tablet...
2025-06-19 22:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Volume IV, everyone!
We're starting this one off with a SYKORA PoV. WOWIE ZOWIE. Most of the book is still gonna be Grant, to be clear--this is just a fun little first-chapter thin...
2025-06-13 20:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post