That evening, the four of them gathered around the kitchen table. Sam had fried up a mess of vegetables and cuts of ham, and poured a spicy Jade Empire sauce over the whole of it that reduced to a ...
2024-04-22 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two days for Nessa to get her shit together.
That first night culminated in her screaming in rage around Third Bell at Vic, demanding he release her. Their argument was fierce and ong...
2024-04-21 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostEvernessa arrived just after breakfast, opening the front door without knocking and calling out her hello.
Harald led the way out from the kitchen, and there she was, wearing leather breeches...
2024-04-20 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHarald froze, staring at the familiar, crabby script. For how long had this envelope sat here? Had his father written it the day he’d descended into his final raid, or years before that, leaving ...
2024-04-19 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHarald stilled.
The world became like fractured glass, a composite of disparate shards that were suddenly revealed to fit together all too well.
Ustim was watching him with avid, hungry...
2024-04-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTraining the next day was interrupted by the arrival of the representative from the Platinum Rose Auction House.
Harald and Sam were engaged in footwork drills on the back patio when she sudd...
2024-04-17 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe world narrowed down to Vic.
Smiling, lethal Vic, his wastrel friend turned deadly swordsman. Their blades gleamed in the morning sunlight, and the air had never felt more fresh, tasted mo...
2024-04-16 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“We’ve seen longswords before,” said Sam dryly.
Vic swung it about, the blade flashing in the sun, and then rested it on his shoulder. “You see, this is my thinking. Sam, wine?”
... 2024-04-15 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostVic showed up the next morning at Ninth Bell, a long, heavy bag slung over one shoulder.
“Alas!” His grin was as merciless as it was bright. “From your expressions, you seem foolishly i...
2024-04-14 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThat evening, Harald felt wrecked. After finishing the workout in the basement, he’d slept for a couple of hours, then gone for a two-bell walk around the park wearing the weight vest Sam had use...
2024-04-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTheir day, however, had just begun. After grabbing a drink of cold water from the well and a piece of fruit from the pantry, Sam led Harald down into his father’s old basement gym.
For a co...
2024-04-12 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSam woke Harald at Sixth Bell.
Which is what they’d agreed to the evening before.
To Harald, it had sounded like a great idea. An early start, a savage way to begin their first day of...
2024-04-11 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Harald far too long to clean up. He just wouldn’t stop sweating, and his heart kept racing. It was almost as if his body was affronted at having been abused in such manner.
Still, e...
2024-04-10 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHarald draped a heavy cloak of the finest wool over his shoulders and headed out into the afternoon. The cloak was of sufficient quality, dyed a charcoal gray and trimmed in cobalt blue, that he’...
2024-04-09 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSam stared up at him, eyes glimmering with tears, her expression vulnerable, raw, devastated.
Then she tore her hands free and fled the kitchen with a cry.
“Sam!” Harald lurched aft...
2024-04-08 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHarald awoke, confused.
For a moment, it was all he could do to stare at the sunlight flooding through the windows. What day was it? What had happened?
He sat up, and felt something pro...
2024-04-07 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostExhaustion swamped Harald like a lead cloak. When had he eaten last? He’d not had a bite today, hadn’t eaten the day before.
Normally, he’d have collapsed by now. But the demon had done...
2024-04-06 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Harald a long time to walk home.
Not that he didn’t know the way; it was a simple matter to follow the curvature of the Eternal Circuit all the way round to the Angelic Quarter.
... 2024-04-05 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHarald awoke in the tepid gloom of his dying lantern. He sat against the tunnel wall, legs kicked out before him, hands lying limp in his lap.
Alive.
It took him what felt like a decade...
2024-04-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHarald stumbled out into darkness. The air was damp and close and cold, the smell mineral and earthy.
No light. Nothing but pure black.
It was all Harald could do to not scream. He stoo...
2024-04-03 13:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Power and currency in the metropolis of Flutic comes in the form of scales. These are harvested from the depths of the vast dungeon beneath the city, salvaged from the divine corpse of the Fallen A...
2024-04-02 13:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Humble Petitioner’s line was interminable. Without his expensive writ, Harald had been forced to get in line with every greenhorn, has-been, and desperate raider who hoped against every odd t...
2024-04-02 13:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post(Hello everyone - welcome to the first chapter of Throne Hunters. This is from the updated edition that was published on Amazon, and as such is current and canon. I'm going to update every chap...
2024-04-01 14:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
If you enjoyed Dawn of the Void from back in the day (feels like 5 years ago alrea...
2024-01-29 14:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
And that's a wrap. Dawn of the Void is done. The whole tale is over 450,000 words long, and will be released as a trilogy over the course of this year along with audi...
2023-01-20 15:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostJames’s words rang out over the snow.
The scene was subtly different from the last time he’d been here, some two or so months in the future. Then the place had looked abandoned, desolate....
2023-01-20 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJames cracked open his eyes. He lay in a recessed doorway, his body stiff and numb from the cold, the cardboard beneath his ass having done fuck-all to insulate him against the January cold. The sk...
2023-01-19 13:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostJames brought all his focus to bear.
This was it.
“Ready.”
Connecting James Kelly to potential Void-brane energy
That ...
2023-01-18 13:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostJames inhaled deeply and gazed around the geodome. The Seraph was busy fixing the last of the spools, coaxing forth threads that it then spun until they revolved of their own accord. Jelly hovered ...
2023-01-17 14:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostJelly’s words hung heavy in the air.
James glowered up at the small robot, but he felt rock by the Animus’ revelations. If they were true. But how could he contest his account? How could ...
2023-01-16 17:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post