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CD Chapter Eleven

Ava stared down at her screen, so tired that it took several seconds for her eyes to focus on the time. Seventeen minutes after two a.m. Forty-three minutes until ‘lunch’ was over. Four mor...

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CD Chapter Ten

Atae’s temple actually was surprisingly humble. There were no statues, no pews or cushions for penitents to sit on, no candles or icons. A simple wooden door opened into a space perhaps ten feet ...

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CD Chapter Nine

Alpha sat up with a gasp. Or tried to. Her head whacked hard into something, a hollow wooden thud echoed in the small space in which she laid. She blinked, looking around. Everything was r...

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Ava's character images

Now that chapter eight is out, I can finally release Ava's images! Here we have real-life Ava, Orc-Ava, and Vamp-Ava. There will be one more Ava-iteration, but that won't be until the veeeeeeery en...

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CD Chapter Eight

Ava blinked. “Are you… awake now?”

Emily tilted her head, very slightly. Her smile grew a little more vapid. “Of course, Traveler. I am here to assist you in creating your character....

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Water's Child (short) Part Two

Though Kris had no memory of entering the ruins before, she felt a flush of heat run through the scar hidden beneath her dress as it came into sight. There were tales of old-time places that covere...

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Water's Child Part 1

NOTE: This is for a contest on Royal Road. If I win, I get some free advertising, which can hopefully be applied to Cuckoo when I'm ready to start re...

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CD - Chapter Seven

She opened her eyes to blackness. Words hovered in the darkness in front of her.

Your race has changed.  You may reconfigure your appearance to suit your new race.  Change appea...

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CD chapter Six

When Ava got home, she fell into bed; smelly clothes, dirty shoes, and all. The relief of knowing that she could pay her bills - and even had a little extra for once - was enormous, and she passed ...

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CD Chapter Five

While Ava’s job at the Buy Fresh was tedious and physically challenging, her job at VaVaVoom was sometimes entirely too exciting. She left the Buy Fresh shortly after seven, and she was ...

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Cuckoo's Dream (CD) Chapter Four

Ava sat up in her pod so quickly that she banged her head against the closed door. Newer models were padded, for just that reason, but this was an old, basic model. She grasped her mask and pulled ...

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Cuckoo's Dream Chapters 1-3 updated

Chapter One

Ava stared down at the spreadsheet displayed on her screen, tapping her stylus against her teeth with a soft click. “Just two hundred dollars, huh? Just.” She laugh...

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Stat blocks

When I started Legendary Farmer, I was just doing what I love to do: writing! Stat blocks were there primarily because it was LitRPG (and I fully intended to make more of them in editing)....

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Quick eyeball update!

Eyeball enhancement surgery went well, and I have some fun details for when one of my characters gets implants. The world looks like I'm still wearing greasy glasses, but I can actually read this s...

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Wep - Part IV (Conclusion)

As they ran, Wep pulled a health potion from his inventory and popped the cork. As carefully as he could while balancing atop a half-ton swine, he pulled out the tiny bat and held her protectively ...

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Good news!

Amazon has selected Clearing for a Kindle Daily Deal on January 28! That means I get free advertising for a day. Woot! It'll be discounted to $1.99 on both the US and Canadian stores, so i...

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Wep - Part III

The mob was a hyena that stood taller than HB, though nowhere near as wide. It had slavering jaws wide enough to bite off Wep’s head, and its spotted coat stood out around its shoulders like an e...

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Wep - Part II

HB’s powerful trotters made short work of the road out of Vargo, heading for the new goblin capital, Refuge. Wep had had a long-shot quest in Quarternell’s last true military base about a year ...

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Weapons Shortage (Wep) - Part I

George swung his legs into his immersion pod, body groaning as it settled into position. As comfortable as the beds were, for the most part, his old bones just didn’t play along like they used to...

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Millie

Millie flipped a towel over her shoulder and looked back at Struthio, who was stirring the pot of creamy grains cooking over the grand kitchen hearth. “Th’ dough should be ready t’ rest now. ...

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Nekthadt (during the first war against Akuji)

Warning: This story occurs during a war. It is not light and fun. If themes of war or fear are difficult for you, you may want to skip it.


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Sumi - First Memories - Parts II and III

Part II

Through the narrow crack in the webbing that surrounded her, the spiderling could see the light change, flickering as the Man carried her. Was he called… Iorgas? The concept of a ...

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Quick mockup of a cover for Grimalkin

I don't need one for sending it to publishers, but if I'm roundly rejected, I will need one when it goes up on Amazon 🤣 It's too dark, but it's a start. I'd do quite a bit more work before using...

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Sumi - First Memories

Part I

Food. Battle. Sleep. Sleep when she could find somewhere safe to rest. If she dared let down her guard, she would be eaten, just as she would eat the others. Others like her, not lik...

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GT - Chapter Twenty-four THE END!


Then, of course, I met Walter. The poor fellow had never set foot outside his home county, and was the most unworldly of men. It made stalking and capturing him quite an e...

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The end of Grimalkin...

will be tomorrow! I had a whole other arc I was going to throw in there (involving the kittens getting chased around the castle), but I did a quick check on my word count, and it was already the ri...

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Chapter Twenty-three


While the place I returned to had many things in common with the home I ran away from, it was still subtly different. It was some time before I realized that the differenc...

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GT Chapter Twenty-two


In the five years I’d been away, my father seemed to have aged ten. I wondered if he had always been so small.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Jou...

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The best laid plans

I'm considering sending GT to traditional publishers, to see if there's any interest. That means it would stay here until it's published, whether on Amazon or somewhere else. Publishers usually don...

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GT Chapter Twenty-one


Never let down your guard simply because your goal is in sight. Or, if you do, don’t wear your favorite gown that day.
-Lady Chatterwick...

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