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...
2023-01-12 16:02:54 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-01-11 19:31:37 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-10 14:54:03 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-09 16:44:59 +0000 UTC
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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....
2023-01-09 16:39:18 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-09 04:50:44 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-08 19:07:21 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-06 15:45:14 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-01-05 17:39:23 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-01-04 18:37:17 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2023-01-03 19:46:13 +0000 UTC
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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...
2023-01-03 17:19:25 +0000 UTC
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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)....
2023-01-02 23:16:25 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-30 17:45:06 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2022-12-28 18:33:56 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-27 19:59:11 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-27 16:32:49 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2022-12-23 19:18:41 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-22 17:28:55 +0000 UTC
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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. ...
2022-12-21 18:59:40 +0000 UTC
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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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2022-12-20 21:06:48 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2022-12-19 18:02:20 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-17 16:59:23 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-16 18:17:37 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-15 17:13:35 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-14 17:41:43 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-14 17:38:14 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-13 17:56:08 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-12 17:41:34 +0000 UTC
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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...
2022-12-12 17:33:31 +0000 UTC
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