The Daily Grind - Chapter 261
Okay, actually no new chapter next week while I
2023-12-09 10:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sublife Crisis - Chapter 24
Still sick! Still got the proper two chaptres this week!
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Tense heartbeats pass as I face down my foe. Across the table from me, a creature that looks like some kind of...
2023-12-08 10:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 23
I am very sick, but still have this ready to go, so have a chapter!
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“Oh, that’s odd.” The words from Jules pull me up and out of the thick spark wine I am staring int...
Short Story - The Sword Of Light And Shadow
Named for a Magic card, and written for this writing prompt...
2023-12-03 12:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 260
“It’s going to be okay. But it’s going to
2023-12-02 10:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 22
“A little to the left!” I call up at Molly.
The little kobold is hanging in the air near the wall of Bastion’s that extends from where the bar ends, tail frantically wagging, wobb...
2023-11-29 08:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 259
“If the hope component is the affective driver of the ideal self, and the core identity is the personal context, then the dream or image of a desired future is the content of the ideal self. ...
2023-11-25 21:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 21
Going slower, but still going. Not quite sure how this story ends yet, exactly.
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Mark and I have dragged one of the small tables and a pair of the thin black chairs from the ...
2023-11-24 10:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 258
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got gr
2023-11-18 06:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 20
“Oh!” Mark exclaims in the middle of Ellin daintily trying to balance a notched piece of resin in the stylized shape of a leaf onto a similarly stylized branch. “I got to ride a m...
2023-11-14 23:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 257
“This is a BRAINVAULT Sigma-ACTIUM-X Cranial Dreadnought (Invictus Type). It is a fortress for your skull. Your skull is now a mighty bastion. You can break anything with your skull. The only...
2023-11-11 13:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 19
I've been having a hard time keeping up on this, sorry everyone
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You’d think that by the fifth time someone came in, Molly would have gotten tired of turning her highly tuned kob...
2023-11-10 15:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 256
There might be a break next week, I dunno. Wri
2023-11-04 07:45:03 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 18
“So, what did you spend your life doing?” I ask Six.
It’s fun to play games with small stories as wagers, teasing out memories and moments from our lives. It’s fun to sit ...
2023-11-02 08:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 255
This time I'm gonna make sure you can all actua
2023-10-28 07:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 17
Eyes that weren’t real until this moment, and really, still aren’t that real at all, open. My heart is beating like it wasn’t just created from nothing. My breath coming steadi...
2023-10-27 07:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 16
“He hummed to me. It was so familiar, like an orchestra I heard from far away.” Jules pays what he owes for needing to buy back into our game of cards. “By the time I died I...
2023-10-24 21:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 254
In rereading older chapters, I've been reminded that the inhabitor dog is actually also a golden retriever. I guess I just like that kind of dog. I'll fix that later
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2023-10-21 08:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 15
I seriously said "Oh no, I'm late, I'll post in half an hour", and then sat at my computer, stared at it, couldn't figure out what I had sat down for, and then went to bed. Anyway, here's the...
2023-10-20 19:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 253
I don't think I like this chapter much, but I'm pretty sure the next one will be better.
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“When I looked at myself, I was somebody else” -Metric, Underline The Black-<...
2023-10-14 17:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 14
After Six arrives and instantly starts fussing with the organization of the bar which I have apparently messed up in my time here, there’s only a few more to go. Mark is next through the do...
2023-10-13 03:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 13
Everyone has different things that they find themselves gravitating toward when they have free time in the between. Technically, all of our time is free time here; that’s one of the true bl...
2023-10-10 23:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Daily Grind - Chapter 252
"Should any political party attempt to abol
2023-10-07 11:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 12
Maybe a decade ago or so, my aunt got me to watch a movie called Defending Your Life. It has two very cool things in it: one, Rip Torn, and two, a very casual and kind version of an afterlife...
2023-10-06 09:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 11
I'm really thinking of just finishing this "book", posting all of it here, and then figuring out what to do with it on RR.
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In between life and death, there is nothing.
2023-10-04 09:50:57 +0000 UTC
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The Daily Grind - Chapter 251
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This ...
2023-10-01 01:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 10
Mark goes first.
His last life was exciting, romantic, insightful, and beautiful. Which, naturally, means he has the fewest heartbeats out of all of us.
There’s a few things tha...
2023-09-29 10:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostSublife Crisis - Chapter 9
“I don’t think they’re optimizers. Not the way you mean it, Luri.” Mark sighs as the five of us relax in the empty-again space of Bastion’s. We’re not anywhere in part...
2023-09-27 05:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post