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Water Kanin: Chapter 40 - Descent

We all stare at the shredded spell circles for a moment.

Then Rezira says, “Oh, praise Rinviu. Now we can wait and find a sane way down.”

“You all might,” Zyneth says, grimacing...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 15 - Neutral Buoyancy Vessel

“I SEE IT,” Ollie excitedly calls. “I SEE IT! LOOK THERE!

None of the harpies have called anything out, there we’re all watching. According to the maps, we should...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 14 - More Bribery

Nek is not enthused by my next request.

“Fyre, forgive me for voicing my dissent,” he says as we head down the tunnel, smoked fish in hand. “But I’m not convinced the prisoners deserv...

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Zyneth Short Story: Part 2

In honor of Loose Kanin publishing on Amazon today, I'm releasing another Zyneth short story! This one takes place ...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 13 - Economics 101

When we finish deciphering the first watchtower spell circle, Dizzi and Mirzayael are both equally excited to try it out. 

“Let’s hook it up to the network, first,” I suggest. “A...

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Water Kanin: Chapter 39 - Heading Home

“Well! This has been an exciting adventure,” Noli signs over breakfast the next morning. “I suppose that means we’ll be making our descent today?”

“We will.” Zyneth flips the sk...

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Chapter 12 - The Watchtower

The watchtower is covered with dust and loose pebbles, which the Dungeon Core happily licks up as I point out new areas in need of tidying. 

While the tower comfortably fits within the C...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 11 - Trade

I have to close both eyes when Ollie drops toward the ocean and the double vision becomes too dizzying. 

“You alright?” Mirzayael asks. 

“Yes.” Ollie is laughing in my...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 10 - Going Fishing

What was originally a nondescript smudge on the horizon—and then obscured by low clouds for the next few days—gradually resolves into a coastline. Just about everyone in Fyreneth’s Fortress m...

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Water Kanin: Chapter 38 - The Relic

Each layer we climb has grown smaller than the last. The current level we find ourselves on is full of fractured and overgrown stone ruins, more complete than anything we’d found below. None of t...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 9 - The Equation of a Soul

It takes a while for Mirzayael to stop laughing. 

My cheeks burn fiercely the whole time, but it’s all I can do to wait until she’s done, wiping the tears from her eyes. On the brigh...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 8 - A Rocky Proposal

“So what do you think?” I ask the next day. I spread the Jorrian’s map out over our main table in the red room. Torim brings over his own map that he’d sketched out in advance, setting it n...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 7 - An Inch of Progress

We talk it over and decide not to send harpies down to speak with the ship. We don’t know how they would react to a flock of strangers descending on them from a giant floating city, and none of u...

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Kanin Fodder: Chapter 37 - Our Pack

We jump back down the stones, launching our glass ahead of us as one of the griffins darts in. Rezira backs up, fist raised, as the nearest beast spears straight toward her. Our glass catches it in...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 6 - Something in the Water

“The water system is nearly complete,” Torim reports during our morning brief that we’re still desperately struggling to normalize within our ever-shifting schedules. 

We’re in t...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 5 - Never Going Back

Opal is relieved when we finally reach the Jorrian’s fourth and final healing session later that week. While I’ve been present, at least, neither of them have tried to attack us again, but I ca...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 4 - A Light Snack

Mirzayael leads me back to her chambers, increasingly ratcheting up my confusion. 

“What could you possibly have in here that you want the Dungeon Core to eat?” I ask. One of her wea...

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Kanin Fodder: Chapter 36 – Territorial

We launch ourself at the beast, colliding with it midair and crashing to the ground on the other side of Attiru. Glass screeches and the animal shrieks as we tumble across the stone. The animal is ...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 3 - The Prisoners

I pinch the bridge of my nose. I can already feel a headache coming on. “When did she pass?”

“Just a few minutes ago,” Opal says, lowering her voice. “I felt it happen. I’m not su...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 2 - Aircraft Maintenance 101

By the time I need to return to my duties in the fortress, one of the younger harpies, Meritis, arrives to play with Ollie in my stead. Though he’s barely a teenager himself, he’d helped in the...

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Fyre Fly: Chapter 1 - The Sky’s the Limit

COME ON, FYRE!” Ollie calls. The white dragon vanishes in a swirl of mist as he plunges into a nearby cloudbank. “RACE YOU!” 

I am slightly preoccupied ...

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Kanin Fodder: Chapter 35 - What’s in a Name

Our next bout with danger happens the second day on the Drifting Isles. A swarm of oversized hornets attacks when we stumble upon their nest, though thankfully their increased size makes them easie...

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Post Schedule for Feb - June

Hello, friends! Just wanted to give you an update on the expected post schedule for the next few months, now that the first book of Nyte in Shining Armor has finished.

Nye unfor...

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Nyte: Chapter 45 - Epilogue

[1 Month Later]

The Moonfall capital is like nothing I’ve ever seen. The castle is built on top of a cliff face, made of the same red clay of the surrounding land. Its dozens of spires have...

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Nyte: Chapter 44 - Armistice

From there, it becomes a lot of politics. We treat with the Oasis officials and Moonfall representatives, and the conversation makes my eyes glaze over. Luckily, they let Quell to bring advisors wi...

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Loose Kanin ebook!

Hello everyone!

Thank you guys so much for everything you've done to support me over the last year. You guys made it possible to publish Glass Kanin last month. And now Loose Kanin, Book 2 o...

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Nyte: Chapter 43 - Verso Illusionist

My arms are wrapped around Quell’s waist as we race across the desert on the footbird. The creature is a lot like a mix between an ostrich and a lizard: a two-legged thing with scaly legs, a long...

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Kanin Fodder: Chapter 34 - Maps and Ink

As we strike out into the Drifting Isles, I examine the new stats I earned from my latest level up. Between this and all the glass magic I’ve been doing with Caecius, I’m actually starting to f...

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Nyte: Chapter 42 - Synchronous

I stalk toward Constance while his back is turned. The fight has turned, and he’s crashing his sword against Darian’s in brutal strikes, sending her stumbling back. All at once, her sword snaps...

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Nyte: Chapter 41 - Master Illusionist

“Undoing the illusion is going to achieve nothing but draw this out,” Constance says, looking through me to his brother. “We could have already finished this without anyone having to die.” ...

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