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Travels - Chapter 3

The old reliable mobile home made its way next to the township with restrained caution.

Eight stories tall, the hermit geist that moved the traveler’s home brought them into peaceful contac...

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Travels - Chapter 2

The old reliable mobile home made its way across the landscape with shaky grace.

Eight stories tall, the hermit geist that had taken the apartment building trudged forward through the Joyous ...

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Travels - Chapter 1

Last one of these.  This one is different, I hope you like it, voting starts this weekend.

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The old reliable mobile home made its way across the landscape with admirable poise...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 6

Last one for today.  The next thing will be up in a couple days, and then the vote starting on the weekend

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I wake up in a strange place, and immediately start to p...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 5

I want to be the kind of person who explores.  I want to be someone who pokes their head into open doors, and takes time to go down unused hallways.  Who finds new routes to old destinati...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 4

I don’t remember teleporting.  Only the sensation of time passing, and of something I could not see.  My eyes worked, but they wouldn’t focus; there wasn’t black, there was somethin...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 3

There was a feeling that came about from being on family vacations, once I hit an age that could charitably be described as ‘adulthood’.  As a kid, vacations were extra days off school, go...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 2

I am going to wizard college.

I mean, I might be.  I might also have just had some kind of LSD flashback and am actually dying in a puddle of my own drool on the floor of a Plaid Pantry ...

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Preapproved Fate - Chapter 1

Thing number two.  I have opinions on my own work, and I'm going to withhold them!  Take from that what you will.

As a reminder, these chapters now have attached PDFs, because I'm t...

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 6

And that's all for this one, for now.  Next one in a couple days!

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Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change

Available Power : 1

Auth...

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 5

Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change

Available Power : 2

Authority : 2

Bind Insect (1, Command)

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 4

Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change

Available Power : 1

Authority : 2

Bind Insect (1, Command)

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 3

Unnamed - Apparatus Of Change

Available Power : 1

Authority : 1

Bind Insect (1, Command)

Nobility...

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 2

I wake up, both more and less confused than yesterday.

Yesterday being a convenient illusion that my mind allows me to make use of.  The more I am ‘here’, wherever here is, as ‘thi...

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Apparatus Of Change - Chapter 1

Today is gonna be the first of three samples of stories posted over the course of this week.  There'll be six chapters of this, I am now going to be including PDFs of all chap...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 62.5

Presented separately for dramatic effect

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Children of Sol

Broken and scattered

The dark is at the door

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 62

Jom-specific soundtrack for this chapter is the song Showdown, by Jose Pavli

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I don’t have a bridge.  I have a command center.

I don’t know what the difference is. &...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 61

“Why are you down here?”  Dyn’s voice radiates through the small gap in the bulkhead that I’ve been wedged into for the better part of an hour.

I do not know how she knows I am d...

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Update

Normally, there would be a chapter of The Daily Grind today.  As you may have noticed, possibly unsurprisingly if you read the last couple author's notes, there is not.

Writing the Daily...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 60

Onward.

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I am dreaming.  I’ve been dreaming a lot lately.  All my sisters and I have.

It’s a strange thing, to make the decision to dream.  To sit down as ...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 59

Because today's public post is that one weird station log chapter, I've decided to post two chapters because I am terrified of people getting bored of my work.

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“I don’t fully ...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 58

Months pass.

I keep waiting, patiently, for the next crash to come.  I know it will.  Eventually.  It always does.

I try to keep myself separate, somehow, from the way my...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 195 - Appendix

Something a little different today.  And with this, the Daily Grind is on break for a while, until book four starts up.  There will again be a Q&A when the public chapters finish book...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 57

Someone has tampered with my garden.

I mean, they didn’t steal anything.  Or break anything.  Or… anything bad actually.

What I should say here is that someone has imp...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 56

A narrative climax for everyone else is a Tuesday for Lily.

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Now we are six.

My sisters sit watching while Ennos and I weave a symphony of hardware in the form of a blueprint...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 55

I am very tired

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Three hundred kilometers away, the city seed works.

Comparative log analysis lets us know that it probably went active roughly eight days ago.  Which is...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 194 - Epilogue

After some feedback, I've decided that last chapter is a great place to end off book three.  So, this week, we have an epilogue, next week will be an appendix with some supplemental informatio...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 54

The hull of the Last Ship slips by the station, the mercantile dreadnaught on a close approach to Earth and giving approximately zero cares about any stealthed or disabled objects in its path.

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 53

I’m dreaming again.  Or something dream-esque.  It’s not a dream, really.  I’ve had some experience with dreams; all of mine are nightmares.  When I dream, I dream of guns...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 193

I'd like to ask everyone to read this with an e

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