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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 36

Sometimes this story is just a lot of fun to write.  Thanks for supporting me.

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Zero gravity is weird.

Also not real, technically.  I understand that gravity doesnâ...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 180

Once again, I'm not sure I like where this one goes.  But it's here now, so let's see how people like it.

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“When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom becau...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 35

My teeth are in perfect condition.

Okay, this instantly sounds defensive.  Let me rephrase.

All of me is in technically perfect condition, and not just because I am a cat.  Th...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 179

Not sure I like this chapter, but it is certainly here.

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“Alone in its orbit, the Blue, the Empyrean Parasite, the ineffable creature of secret inner fire that had been first...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 34

“Ennos, where’s the door?”  I ask in a pained meowing tone.

I have been dragging what feels like several dozen moons worth of cabling behind me, and while I understand that my conc...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 33

I have written way more of this story than I ever thought I would.

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The days crept by, and in a twisted inverse of how I could sometimes lose myself in a project, it felt like time...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 178

This one got away from me in length.  Again.

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 32

You might think that after sharing something I felt was a deeply personal secret, my AI friends would have some kind of followup questions.  Perhaps something about the nature of the station, ...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 177

“Because when you’re a millennial, you promise to do extravagant yet trivial things, to bring a sense of narrative purpose to your life.”  - Harry Brewis, XOXO Festival 2019 - View Post

Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 31

Even the exposition is depressing!

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“Lily, why is this station so impossibly large?”  Ennos asks with a put upon sigh.

I should never have connected that last grid n...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 30

There is no such thing as the status quo for me.

No sense of stability, nothing I can really take for granted, no emotional bedrock or historical precedent that lets me know everything will b...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 29

“Okay!  Three, two, one…!”

I drop my forepaws onto a switch plate, engaging the magnetic couplers behind the hull plates of the station’s walls.  It’s taken a lot of time ...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 176

I'm *probably* gonna take next week off from The Daily Grind.  Might be a short chapter.  But I just need a break.  Probably should have taken a break for Christmas!  Didn't hav...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 28

More of this.

Thank you to all of you, again.

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Of all the things I expected to hear today and be excited about, “Your bloodwork came back.” was not one of them.  Mos...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 27

I'm also posting a chapter for normal readers today as a holiday bonus.  So you lot aren't gaining any more lead on this one.  But you're still six chapters ahead, and I intend to grow th...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 175

This was originally going to be two segments longer.  But also the segments were originally going to be half as long.  And also this holiday happened and I had to drive through snow and i...

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Update

Due to a minor snowstorm, I may be late getting home to actually post this week’s chapter. At the latest, it’ll be up tomorrow though.


Happy fourth quarter holiday!

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 26

And now, the conclusion.

Conclusion-esque.  Conclusion adjacent thing.  Whatever.

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Have I mentioned, before, that I am shockingly unmodified?

My body rejects ...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 25

In an effort to make writing this a little less stressful than my usual thing, I'm trying to keep chapter length to *around* 2k words.  To that end, this is sort of a 'part one of two' chapter...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 174

This one is longer than I expected for what I thought would be filler but is actually an excuse for me to expand on the actual thoughts behind some character actions.  Hope it's enjoyable.

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 24

The mood in the station was entirely too somber for me.

I have, effectively, one reality warping power.  And that is to chaotically forget whatever has been bothering me, dial into a new...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 173

We're back!

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“Do no harm, but take no shit.”  - Moira Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of Lost and Found -

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“How are they?”  James asked.

He ...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 23

For once, in my long, long, long long long - and I mean *long* long - life, I was busy with something that wasn’t frantically trying to stop a hull breach, or vaporizing surface targets.

Al...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 22

You know what’s weird, is that I don’t actually have any memories of being dirty?

Not really, I mean.  I’ve recently gotten a taste of what it’s like to be covered in matted fur ...

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Update

I will be taking a short break this week, for both my stories. I will return to the regular schedule for TDG next Saturday, and KCKS as more writing happens (at least one chapter next week though)...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 172

There will be another post, for everyone, later today, but in brief; I'm taking a short break after this one, for personal health reasons.  Didn't wanna leave anyone on a cliff hanger though. ...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 21

I am, once again, drifting through the condensed nothing of hard vacuum.

My AR link is cut off as soon as I’m outside the station.  How, exactly, the station has decided what is and is...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 20

In case anyone was curious, if this were a TV show, the theme song would just be Still Feel, by Half Alive.

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I am, at this point, wholly prepared to believe that the ration replica...

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The Daily Grind - Chapter 171

There was supposed to be something clever here but I've forgotten what I was going to say.  I'm sure it's fine.  Enjoy the chapter!

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“I’ve been playing at // I’...

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat - Chapter 19

The radio contact from Glitter caught me slightly by surprise.  Ennos and I had taken some time to set the station’s comm system to basically auto-answer whenever she pinged us, along with t...

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