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In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-7

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It's here! Thank you all for waiting - I'm very sorry again for the de...

Chapter delay

Owing to a perfect storm of much-bigger-than-usual editing plans for this current set of chapters, travel, and sickness, this week's advance chapter will be a little late. My editor and I are curre...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-6

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It's another one of these weird formatting chapters! Yay!

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My Own and Only Light 4-5

“I’m not asking all these weird linguistics questions just to ask them, you know. Sure, the world isn’t gonna explode yesterday if we don’t figure them out, but there’s still important im...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-4

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More weird stuff this week! Re...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-3

(No weird formatting notes this week. Enjoy, everyone!)

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Who is this Keeper? They can clearly sense the Harbinger, but what exactly is it like for them? I couldn’t just tell them t...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-2

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Same note as last time - this c...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-1

This chapter contains some weird formatting that I wasn't able to manage in Patreon's woefully limited text editor. Because of that, rather than post a simplified form of it here, I've added it to ...

Where We Come From 3-4

The faint stench grows only slightly stronger as I follow it, but eventually, its trail does end. It’s on the outer edge of the Fields, the central urban district, centered in a single mid-sized ...

Where We Come From 3-3

Esonei’s cluster of faces melts into the ground, and its ghostly voice grows louder. I reach out and draw my infection out from the quivering heap of its body, the way I ripped it out of Yurfaln,...

Where We Come From 3-2

A dirt path winds through the field west of the hospital, where the spring flowers are well into withering and dying. The sickly-sweet smell of wilt is much milder than the way my senses interpret ...

Where We Come From 3-1

New Claris is quietest on moonless nights, beneath the stars’ pale light, but a city is never completely empty and still. It’s never lifeless. I mean, unless it’s abandoned out in a wasteland...

Duet 2-7

“I’m heading out! Bye!” Shona shouted through her house.

“Don’t slam the—”

Shona was out the door before Mom could speak the last word. As she left, she turned around, pul...

Other Horizons 2-6

Life surges into me through pale green tendrils. Nothing could be less like my regular infusions. A dozen showers of warm rain fall through my body in all directions, pooling into my wounds until I...

Other Horizons 2-5

Irakkia’s presence fades into the background noise of the Wound, even as its voice lingers in my skull. Where is it going? With the way this place works, can I even trust that it even is...

Other Horizons 2-4

Through blurred vision, I watch the darkening sky just above the tower start to crack. Glowing fractures arc through it  in a shifting rainbow of colors like flashes of prismatic lightning. Ou...

Other Horizons 2-3

There’s a pressure in the air inside the Soul Sanctuary. It's nothing harsh or really heavy, just… strange. It’s a faint phantom sensation of something like being underwater, if water only we...

Other Horizons 2-2

“Well! It’s very very interesting that you should happen to call right this moment, becaaaaaause…” Shona says, then trails off into silence. “...as luck would have it, I’ve recently…�...

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Other Horizons 2-1

Sunlight is just starting to flood through the gauzy curtains when I wake up choking for air. Hot, sharp pangs burn through my chest. My head spins as I try to sit up. I’m breathing the wrong way...

Death Inverted 1-7

The floor’s charge nurse insists on all the poking and testing and measurements she can think of. They obviously won’t find anything, but I can’t really tell them that. I tried to think of an...

Death Inverted 1-6

It’s too dark to see inside, and the eerie green glow shifting over my tarot spread isn’t enough to illuminate anything. The air here is somehow too humid and too thin at the same time. It clin...

Accelerated update schedule

To everyone who’s reading so far, hello! Thank you so much for your time and I hope you’re enjoying my work!

I’m eager to get the story to a point where there’s enough of a sample out...

Death Inverted 1-5

My vision twists in on itself, giving way to the sight of nothing at all. I’m hurtling downward through an endless, lightless black void — falling, but with no air rushing past me. My nerves pr...

Death Inverted 1-4

“That was… does everyone have the dreams?”

“Mostly. All of my children do.”

I look down at myself. No time seems to have passed at all during my dream, but it’s fol...

Death Inverted 1-3

White. I look up at a blindingly white world. A medical monitor beeps, softly and steadily, from no source I can place. For a moment, I think I’m alone in a completely featureless place, but I’...

Death Inverted 1-2

The lectures only ever said that Harbingers were terrifying monsters and we’d know them when we saw them. That didn’t do them the least bit of justice. The thing in the halls was unforgettable ...