CA Chapter Ten
“Good catch!” Amythyst said, shooting Aspen an approving grin. “Now, hold Amy out. Carefully.”
Aspen sent her a look that suggested he didn’t need the reminder, but he awkwardly pul...
2023-03-27 15:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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CA Chapter Nine
Ava peered around the corner of the building, saw nothing of interest, and sent a question to Silus. ::Do you see anyone?:: Instinctively, she kept her voice low, even though no one could overhear ...
2023-03-24 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Eight
After lunch, Ava took Amy out for another ‘walk’. Petunia’s mother, Florence, had offered to clean Ava’s filthy dress while they ate, so Ava was back in her relatively comfortable clothes. ...
2023-03-23 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Seven
When Ava was little, long before cancer came to steal her mother from her, she and Molly used to play in a stream near their house. In the spring there were tadpoles, and in the summer and fall, Av...
2023-03-22 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Six
When Ava went into ‘her’ pod for the third time, she could see Quinn and Dean bustling around the other pod, getting it ready for Amy. LeeAn settled Ava’s mask into place, and for the first t...
2023-03-21 15:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Five
The four days of Ava’s ‘test’ immersion passed quickly. At first she was worried that Veralt might be monitoring her in some way, and notice that she was using skills he hadn’t given her ch...
2023-03-20 15:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Five
The four days of Ava’s ‘test’ immersion passed quickly. At first she was worried that Veralt might be monitoring her in some way, and notice that she was using skills he hadn’t given her ch...
2023-03-17 15:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Four
The first thing Ava wanted was a haircut and some new clothes. Changing your hairstyle in game was as simple as selecting a new one from your settings, but first you had to go to a barber and buy i...
2023-03-16 19:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Three
Getting ready to enter the pod was faster the second day. LeeAn applied the sticky electrodes, but otherwise she left getting into the suit up to Ava. The other woman did double check all the seals...
2023-03-15 14:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter Two
When Ava woke from her three week immersion in Amythyst’s pod, she’d only known that she’d been surrounded by fluid a minute before because her skin was damp, and there were lingering traces ...
2023-03-14 14:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostCA Chapter One
Ava opened her eyes to see a plain wooden ceiling overhead, then sat up sharply, feeling her hands ball into fists in the blanket under which she rested. Those bastards had actually forced her ...
2023-03-13 15:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-five (End of Lament!)
The orange juice was more like orange sludge, but Ava drank every drop of it before hurrying off to work. She left a full twenty minutes earlier than she had to because she didn’t want to take th...
2023-03-10 16:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostCL Chapter Forty-four
After her shift, Ava just had time to order her meal from the kitchen, then hurry back to her room to redo her hair and makeup before LeeAn sent her a message letting her know she was on the way. A...
2023-03-09 15:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-three
Dr. Veralt led Ava into the room directly in front of the nurse’s station. The room was a slightly more personalized version of the rooms Molly spent so much time in. The bed looked far more comf...
2023-03-08 16:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostCL Chapter Forty-two
Ava’s screen woke her at seven-thirty with a series of cheerful chimes. She groaned as she swiped at the screen. She’d gotten used to sleeping as long as she wanted and waking when she was rest...
2023-03-07 16:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostCD (actually CL) Chapter Forty-one
It took about two hours to run back to the city, enter the storage facility, transfer the twelve boxes in the storage unit to her new car, and hit a hardware store to buy a few house plants. It was...
2023-03-06 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty
The suites were beautiful. They were modern, fully furnished, and had a few automated devices she could control through her screen or her implants. If she had been offered one without ever experien...
2023-03-06 04:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-nine
Carl Landon’s house had extra houses attached to each side. Ava supposed they were wings, and that meant this was actually a mansion, but all she could think of was how hard it must be to get fro...
2023-03-03 16:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-Eight
Ava swung her legs out of the car and stood, brushing at her fitted gray slacks, though their expensive fabric refused to wrinkle or crease. Turning back to the driver, she smiled politely and tapp...
2023-03-02 15:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for your patience...
yesterday, guys. I caught the stomach flu that's going around here and I was absolutely down yesterday. I'm going to try to get two chapters out today or tomorrow (let's be honest, it probably won'...
2023-03-02 15:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostBits and pieces
I thought I'd give you higher tier patrons some of my working images for the cover. My plan is to use more of Ava's city background on the print book, and actually wrap it around the spine and onto...
2023-02-28 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCuckoo's Lament cover art
No chapter today because this is what I've been working on since last Friday, so I'm behind. I really n...
2023-02-28 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-seven
Even though Myles had assured her repeatedly that she would feel perfectly normal when she woke, Ava was still shocked to find that it was true. She had been in the pod for three weeks - a month an...
2023-02-27 15:51:38 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-six
Amythyst was there, looking worried. “How are you feeling? Do you need to lie down? Of course you need to lie down.” She bit her lip, looking conflicted.
Ava knew her well enough by now t...
2023-02-24 17:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-five
The next few days flew by in the closest thing to happiness Ava had experienced in years. She ate good food, slept in a safe, comfortable bed, and played her favorite game using the best pod she’...
2023-02-23 16:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-four
The jungle was horrible. Absolutely everything, including the plants, wanted to kill them. By the end of the day, they were lost, filthy, exhausted, and injured. It seemed like as soon as ...
2023-02-22 15:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-three
The tunnel was dark. In hindsight, this shouldn’t have been a surprise, since it wasn’t meant to be in use yet, but it was fortunate that vampires, dwarves, and whatever Myles was all had [Dark...
2023-02-21 16:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostCD Chapter Thirty-two
When Alpha opened her eyes, Toggle was awake, staring into her face with worried blue eyes. As soon as he saw she was awake, he extended a vial filled with blood. “Mistress, Tess said you would b...
2023-02-20 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHarvest Audiobook
Last one! Next week, we're back to our regularly scheduled chapters. We're actually getting pretty close to the end of Book One, believe it or not. I'm trying to decide on series vs book titl...
2023-02-17 16:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostCultivation audiobook
This one has Khor in it, so he got his own voice. Fun fact: Google gave all the American voices names that start with M, and the deepest male voice is 'Marcus'. Sadly, Motte never has his own chapt...
2023-02-16 15:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post