Update
Astute readers who aren’t completely lost in the timeless void that is modern living may have noticed I didn’t post a new chapter last week. I apologize for this. At some point, I managed to i...
2021-01-01 16:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Daily Grind - Chapter 129 - Epilogue
It's really more of a chapter, honestly.
Q&A next week! A your Qs!
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“Yeah, okay.” Anesh spoke into his cell phone, standing in the corner of the room that...
2020-11-22 02:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 127
Two chapters after this before book two is going to wrap up, I think. After that, I'll be taking a bit of a break from TDG (though I *will* be coming back to it, for sure this time). I'...
2020-11-08 08:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 126
Kinda shorter than I'm used to today. I'm still, *still* exhausted from the process of moving. But at least I'm mostly done. Though I've still got a frankly idiotically large pile...
2020-11-01 07:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 125
Trying something a little different for this one. The Daily Grind is one coherent story - as much as I can make it anyway - but I still like to experiment with style and theme within it. &nbs...
2020-10-18 03:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Commissioner Is Doing A Great Job
I've been writing more nonfiction lately than I ever have before. I'm not sure why, exactly. But it's very cathartic to share some of these slices of my reality with all of you.
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2020-10-12 02:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 124
I got another review this week from someone who was mad at how I'd 'tricked them' into thinking that James and Anesh were straight. Normally, I get kinda annoyed at these, but ultimately I'm ...
2020-10-11 00:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostGunpowder Punch
I'm as shocked as you that I needed to make a nonfiction tag.
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The summer when I was nineteen years old was largely composed of new experiences for me.
I had just come home ...
2020-10-08 02:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 123
Hey, I know this is probably the audience that
2020-10-04 03:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 122
Alright. Took a week off to not die, but we're back now. Let's roll.
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James was currently sitting in what used to be his office, fingers steepled in front...
2020-09-26 12:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 121
This one is late, and I'm sorry to say I might have to skip next week's chapter, too. Right now, there's smoke leaking into my apartment making me sick, fire bearing down preparing to make me...
2020-09-16 15:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 120
This one is a day or two late, due to depressio
2020-09-07 09:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 119
Is this one shorter? Longer? I can't tell anymore. Either way, hope ya'll enjoy.
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James and Alanna pressed their backs against a low wall of lockers,...
2020-08-30 03:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 118
I'm actually not sure I like this one very much. Let me know how ya'll feel; I might actually redo it entirely if it doesn't hold up.
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Jame...
2020-08-23 02:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post[Writing Prompt] The problem with space warfare is just how far apart things are, and how long everything takes.
We arrived to be told that the war was over.
It wasn’t unheard of, but it was jarring to have it happen to us, personally. To watch the great Vishian Third Sociocide Flee...
2020-08-18 21:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 117
Feelings and stuff today. Unmitigated violence next time.
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When James woke up, he was almost surprised to do so in his own bed.
It was the same king sized ...
2020-08-15 22:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 116
This one is a bit weird, I think. I know where the story goes *soon*, but these bridge sections always feel off to me, even though it's characters doing that thing I like best, and communicat...
2020-08-09 00:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 115
I'm way ahead today! Enjoy these assorted scenes.
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Momo’s first totem, refined over a dozen iterations as her skill in making the things grew, guided them to w...
2020-08-01 23:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 114
Did you guys know I have other short stories ag
2020-07-26 06:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 113
Two *hours* late this time! I'm slipping!
Also, holy shit, I didn't mention this last time, but I blew right past a hundred patrons when I wasn't looking. You guys... have no idea...
2020-07-19 09:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 112
I am here to report with shame that I missed my deadline for "one a week" by *fourteen minutes*. I make no excuses, and will report to the stockade alongside George Martin at once for the fat...
2020-07-12 07:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 111
Keeping up the pace. One a week. One a week, *forever*.
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The car screamed into the school zone with approximately zero regard for such petty things as ‘r...
2020-07-05 03:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post[Writing Prompt] You awaken to a bright room with 12 mysterious figures who tell you to roll 2 dice. The outcome decides your faith. You roll snake eyes.
I think the poster meant "fate"?
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The voice boomed, dire and eternal, vibrating the very stone of the chamber. "Mortal. You are hereby senten...
2020-06-29 12:11:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 110
Holy shit, I actually hit my target of "one a week" this time. *Barely* within the window, but I did it. Yes! Excellent!
Now to do it... again...
Hm.
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The Daily Grind - Chapter 109
Better late than never? Maybe?
Man, I just gotta get faster at these.
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“When does You-Three get back?” James was asking Anesh, as the two of them...
2020-06-21 10:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 108
This is a short one, partially because of more life things happening to me with unnerving frequency, but also because it's kind of just a bridge. It's a conversation that I feel needs to happ...
2020-06-11 10:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 107
I'm not dead, I'm just sleeping.
Serious
The Daily Grind - Chapter 106
This one is about five months out of time, and it's kinda weird, but that's just how time be sometimes, I guess.
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“You wanted to see me, boss?” Harvey aske...
2020-05-11 08:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 105
Let's set a plot in motion.
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James slid into the padded diner seat across from the short, scruffy man with the chevrons on his grey-green shirt, assuming that there ...
2020-05-01 07:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post