He woke with a start and fought the disorientation. Where was the bright light? Omar’s distorted voice?
He felt the arm over his chest. The fur, the nose against his neck, and he relaxed. H...
2025-10-04 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostConvincing Heather they couldn’t use the transportation platform proved difficult and, ultimately, something Tibs couldn’t manage, but which an Attendant took care of for him. Or rather, Heathe...
2025-10-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran watched the pack exit the chamber, a broken Jer between them. He wanted to go to him. Take him from them. Bring him home and comfort him, nurse him to sanity. But he couldn’t.
Jer...
2025-10-02 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTibs watched Heather move from stall to stall as if it was her first day in the market, instead of the fourth. She bought little; small ornaments for her armor, food occasionally. She glared at Tib...
2025-10-01 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe music blared, and Jeremy’s eyes snapped open. “I’m awake.” He looked around, eyelids already drooping, as the orchestra quieted. He hadn’t planned on nodding off. But keeping his eyes...
2025-09-30 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTibs watched the thugs as he followed Heather through the market. They’d yet to harass anyone, but he figured it would happen. Then, he would figure out how to deal with them.
He stayed out...
2025-09-29 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe knock was gentle. “Claudia?” her mother called softly from the other side of the bedroom door. “Honey? Dinner’s ready.”
“I’m not hungry,” she replied from the corner of th...
2025-09-28 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere was only one car by the curb this morning, and it wasn’t the one that kept getting the bomb. Well, he now knew it wasn’t the owner of the coffee shop, or the dressmaker who were the targe...
2025-09-28 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is a bit different, because something different happened, and it’s going to have an impact.
This week, for, I think, the first time ever, I was hit by what I’m thinking of a case...
2025-09-27 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran punched and used Brel’s block to step into her space and slam his shoulder into her chest, then stepped back to catch his breath.
“I’m worried.”
She gave him a dismiss...
2025-09-27 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Heather headed for the markets, and Tibs didn’t argue when she demanded he stay with her.
She spent the morning buying fabrics and getting clothes made. Tibs didn’t bother. ...
2025-09-26 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“And don’t ask me how they work,” Jeremy said, highlighting a section of the projection made from the compiled scans of the bridge pared down to only the circuits. “But that controls maneuv...
2025-09-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“For this exercise,” Tibs said, unsheathing his sword, “you need to focus on sensing how Force changes around my sword while we fight.”
Heather grumbled something, unsheathing hers. 2025-09-24 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“How are you feeling?” the Psychologist asked once Gralgiran was seated.
“Better.”
The tilted ear told him she’d want more.
“Jer’s mostly back to his old self, and h...
2025-09-23 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Can’t you make a sled with your water?” Heather asked as Tibs threw a third bag of flour over his shoulder.
“Yes, but I won’t. Those are off limits,” he told Ruppert as the squir...
2025-09-22 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Colby!” the woman yelled from the porch. “Dinner’s ready!”
He lobbed the bale of hay to the loft with a hand.
“Hey,” the girl there exclaimed. “Watch where you throw th...
2025-09-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“So?” a woman said. “You’re the guy who stole my job?”
Eric looked up from the radio he was fixing. She was a couple of years younger than he was, twenty-two, mfaybe twenty-three, h...
2025-09-21 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy removed the visor to look at the welds. Even with it blocking most of the arc welder’s intense brightness he had trouble seeing his work through the spots in his vision. He knew why Atarik...
2025-09-20 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRuppert complained about being left alone when Tibs retrieved it. Not that it couldn’t sense anything, but that it couldn’t reach all the things it smelled. He gave it chunks of meat to quiet i...
2025-09-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran stood in his office, the Leadership projected before him. Unlike his usual interactions, this warranted a full table, so the projection reduced their size to that of the toys they sold to...
2025-09-18 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHardly anyone moved about within the walled village, was what Tibs sensed. They were in the building, and when someone exited one, they hurried to another. The sense he had was that being outside w...
2025-09-17 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“How are you feeling?” the Psychologist asked.
Jeremy couldn’t stop the shrug. The desire not to think about what had happened. Not to acknowledge it had happened. The hunt was done. He...
2025-09-16 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t get it,” Heather said, lobbing the stone back to him. “Why does the Force essence change as we throw it?”
Tibs lobbed it back. “That’s because the essence is sticky.”...
2025-09-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe address was a narrow blue brick building that had seen better days. The large display window had television sets in it, old, new, and some he only guessed were televisions because they were sur...
2025-09-14 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDiane Parker rushed through the freshly painted corridors, tablet in one hand, briefcase in the other, listening to the meeting’s transcript. The Faculty—as she’d started thinking of the six ...
2025-09-14 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Energy spike at the station,” sensor stated.
“On screen,” Gralgiran instructed, and the image of the dreadnought with the occasional flash of explosion making it to the outer hull wa...
2025-09-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapters written
This week was a normal week. So there were 3 chapters for Mind Your Steps, 3 chapters for The Technician’s Fight, one for Harker, and one for The Daughter....
2025-09-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Let me out of this thing!”
The branch over Tibs’s shoulder slid off as the squirrel ran against the bars of its cage, making it swing. He’d attached it there because carrying it in h...
2025-09-12 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Earther before him was thinner than Jeremy remembered and seemed tired, but he smiled.
“I knew this would work. I knew that if I provided the right bait, you and your cat wouldn’t be ...
2025-09-11 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Why isn’t it doing anything?” she grumbled, and Tibs opened an eye. He’d been sensing her move her essence around, send it at the fire, at a bush, a tree.
“What are you trying to d...
2025-09-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post