The Snows over Cynus Four
Can't sleep, must tell a story.
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It was snowing on Cygnus Four. The delicate flakes of frozen oxygen and met...
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Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 363
Last of the four solo advisor chapters, with some re-writing.
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"Know, oh prince, that between the years when Engine made the world and ...
2023-12-17 00:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra Chapter 362
3rd advisor story, small changes.
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Squirmie flew at the monstrosity in front of her, intent on slicing her wings across a monstrous eye the size o...
Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 361
The 2nd advisor chapter, with some minor changes.
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Ben was mildly surprised when he appeared in mid-air inside a glowing blue energy globe. The drop...
Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 360
The first of the rewritten Advisor Chapters, with Suzette.
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The torrent of blue boxes faded away, and Suzette found herself in the ruins of what m...
Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 359
This starts off the series of Advisor Chapters. I'm going to be going over those again, expanding a bit and reposting them while I work on the chapters that come after that. I'm taking tomorrow off...
2023-12-16 02:08:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Value of Feedback (Non-Story)
Some of you leave me feedback on the chapters, and a few times I reply. But everything you write, I read, and think about. Some things I won't agree with. Other times I wonder how my writing ...
2023-12-14 18:07:12 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra Chapter 358
"I mean, if I had known how hard it would be to run a Necropolis, I might have skipped the promotion to Grand Necromancer when the entire Circle of Despair and Corruption were burned at the stake i...
2023-12-12 05:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostKindleButcher Chapters 1 and 2
I'm working on the manuscript for Butcher of Gadobhra for my publisher, Aethon Books. The early chapters aren't my best writing, being the first writing I ever published. And, frankly, had no idea ...
2023-12-11 19:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra: Advisors Part 4
Squirmie flew at the monstrosity in front of her, intent on slicing her wings across a monstrous eye the size of her own body. Not agreeable to this plan, her adversary opened its maw until it bloc...
2023-12-10 23:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra Chapter 357
I am getting back to the Butcher. I'll be finishing up the Advisors arc tonight or tomorrow. Rolly is almost done and then we have a chapter where the full group gets to relax and talk before being...
2023-12-10 22:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday Night's All Right For Fighting
"Oh shit, whoever that is, he brought along a sound system. That is never good."
"Shut up and shoot, idiot. It's just noise."
Except that it wasn't 'just noise.' It was a very spec...
Let me not die in battle without my name.
Writathon is over, but I hope you don't mind if I get started on a few more chapters.
If you wonder what I was listening to while writing this chapter:
2023-12-07 03:04:44 +0000 UTC
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What's Next (non-Story)
Writathon ends today. I'm uploading chapters now to finish, and then getting back to writing without having to worry about it. Since I spent a lot of yesterday working to get heat in one of my stor...
2023-12-05 17:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat "In Good Faith"
Not sure what chapter this will be. It sort of spilled out of me tonight when I should be in bed.
Unedited for now. Might tweak things a bit.
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"I am at a loss fo...
Tunnel Rat Chapter 279
"We have her trapped. With teams cutting off her routes, she's boxed in and had to move into a dead end. A large factory area is on the map, and only this corridor leads to it. She'll try to hide i...
2023-12-04 23:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 278
A group of six men and women dressed in Manpower Security uniforms were on duty at the main entrance. Four of them were leaning against walls or sitting on the desk. The two new recruits stood at a...
2023-12-03 18:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 277
"Why do I feel you've never wrapped Christmas presents before?"
Milo looked up from where he was crumpling up colored aluminum foil Christmas wrapping. "I haven't. Is there some traditional ...
Tunnel Rat Chapter 276
Not-so-funny story. My main shop, where I work, has a broken toilet that will take another two weeks to get parts (4 weeks total.) Standard commercial toilet, but somehow parts are rare. Then the h...
2023-12-01 00:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 275
Eric had done what he could to cover all the contingencies but knew it wouldn't go down perfectly. Nothing ever happened perfectly, especially at Manpower. It had been difficult to convince Victor ...
2023-11-29 03:12:43 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra: Advisors (3 or 4? who knows?) RAW
Ozzy gets some advice. Rolly is next. This is a rough draft, doing a lot of writing today, editing tomorrow.
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"Know, o...
Tunnel Rat Chapter 274
"Can we watch it again? Please? The part where they open the pod is awesome! Victor looks so sad/pissed/surprised." Nina loved the video that Bork had put together. It was footage from news program...
2023-11-27 22:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 273
It only took a minute for Milo to verify that what Rusty had said was correct. There was an intermittent signal coming from Belinda that could be used to track her. Milo spent a half hour reading e...
2023-11-26 20:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 272
It had been a long day for Bernard St. Clair. The cases that his law firm took these days mostly involved defending wealthy clients from small indiscretions and dalliances of past years. He would o...
2023-11-25 04:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 271
"How?" Milo had counted on Victor being fooled and giving him time to figure out what they would do next. A week would have done it, even a couple of days. But not this soon.
"The news relea...
Advisors Part 2: Ben
The second of the four advisors chapters. Each is going to be a separate chapter.
This is unedited. I just finished, and I don't have the energy to fix the typos. Maybe tomorrow between work and...
Tunnel Rat Chapter 270
Belinda watched over Milo until she was sure he was asleep, and the pod assured her he was resting. A life of being in and out of intensive care had led to her taking online courses in medicine to ...
2023-11-20 18:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostButcher of Gadobhra: Advisors Part 1
I'm not sure how many chapters this will be or if it will be one huge one.
Here's the first 2k words.
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The torrent of blue boxes faded. Suzette found herself ...
Coffee! Cheese! Sharpen my pencils!
Apologies. I lost a couple of days to the utter chaos of family stuff, then added a strained knee, and topped it off with stomach flu of some sort. Oh, and I run a retail store and it's the holiday...
2023-11-19 17:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostTunnel Rat Chapter 269
Belinda enjoyed telling the tale of their adventures and how they plotted to send her stepfather and Victor out of the country, and her audience sat silently as she gave them the details of the pla...
2023-11-12 19:45:10 +0000 UTC View Post