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Chapter 739 - Monsters and Monsters

Zeke sat on the balcony, his feet dangling over the edge as he leaned back on his palms.  Pudge’s domain was a truly idyllic setting, complete with a perfect sunset that cast the sky in shad...

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Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 2 - A Rising Tide

Imperative.

It was a simple enough word, and one Elijah keenly understood.  He felt it bearing down on him like the weight of the world rested upon his shoulders.  Yet, he knew that...

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Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 1 - The Joy of Silence

Eagle-eyed readers might notice that we're starting the eleventh book in the series here. I can't tell you all how awesome it feels to finish ten books in the series. It's super...

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Chapter 738 - The Price to be Paid

Zeke could have simply willed himself to another location, but, for two reasons, he chose to ride with Pudge.  The first was that he wasn’t entirely certain where they were going, but the se...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 85 - Hartwood

Elijah was alone, but he could feel every single person he’d inducted into the grove.  It wasn’t just his locus, either, though he’d come to recognize that it was difficult to tell the d...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 84 - Branches and Leaves

More than two hundred people sat before Elijah.  On some faces were expressions both reserved and reluctant.  Other expressions ranged from awe-struck to haughty.  And still others w...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 83 - Not Alone

Moving the double chapter from Sunday to today because I think it fits better. Enjoy!

Leaves fluttered in Elijah’s mind, echoing the morning bree...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 82 - Knight

Miguel felt his uncle well before his actual arrival.  The feeling wasn’t overbearing, but he had a vague sense of the grove and its master.  Still, when Elijah poked his head above the...

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Chapter 737 - A Mortal Concept

Time.

The word was a ubiquitous constant, and for every creature in existence.  For the unthinking beasts, it was as simple as “time to eat” or “time to sleep.”  But for sap...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 81 - Heroic Return

Elijah awoke on a bed of moss, but it wasn’t in his treehouse.  He opened his eyes to see a canopy of blue leaves above him.  Motes of dust and pollen danced in the rays of light peekin...

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Chapter 736 - Reality and Illusion

The very concept that reality was made of threads was a bit misleading.  From Zeke’s perspective, it was true.  That wasn’t to imply that what everyone else saw was any less real, tho...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 80 - Everything in its Place

The cave swirled, a storm of ethera, water, and vitality.  But it couldn’t compare to the formless tempest his mind had become.  Without those facets – or even the partition that came...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 79 - Confrontation

“How’s it going?” Alyssa asked as she stepped into the room.  She kicked aside a pile of old clothes.  “Gross.”

She looked identical to how she had back in high school.&nb...

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Chapter 735 - The Root of Existence

Everything was nothing.

Zeke existed, and yet, he ceased to be. 

The silence was deafening, the nothingness blinding in its lack.  There were no thoughts.  No senses.&nbs...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 78 - Shattered Facets

Floating in the center of the cave, with huge strands of kelp tickling his skin, Elijah focused on the facets of his mind.  For the most part, they were identical.  Nine incarnations of t...

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Death: Genesis Chapter (7/8/25) Delayed

I apologize. I had something come up, so this morning's Death: Genesis chapter is delayed until tomorrow. I hope this doesn't cause any issues for anyone!

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 77 - Home

Before Elijah left Argos, he stopped by Atticus’ store and emptied his Arcane Loop and Ghoulhide Satchel and sold anything he couldn’t use.  As it turned out, the stakes he’d taken from ...

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Chapter 734 - Driven by Need

Reality imploded.

Zeke blacked out. 

And when he opened his eyes, there was nothing.  No strings.  No cavern of splintered wood.  It was as if he’d broken through ...

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Announcements

No - this isn't a third chapter for today! Instead, I wanted to make a quick announcement. I'll be removing the chapters for book two of Path of Dragons on 8/15/2025. As I'm sure you all know by no...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 76 - Choices

“What am I going to do with you?” Elijah asked, pacing back and forth at the foot of the bed.

Gunnar, still bound to the headboard by ethera-sapping handcuffs, let out a long-suffering si...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 75 - Not That Kind of Dungeon

“Uh…this is not what I expected,” Elijah breathed as he watched Atticus cuff Lindstrom to a bed.  He glanced around, unsure what to make of his friend’s basement.  There were no b...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 74 - Glorious

Kurik leaped aside, narrowly dodging an oncoming veinroot.  The fleshy tendril changed direction at the last second, wrapping around his ankle and fouling his maneuver.  Panicked as it dr...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 73 - A Fate Earned

Elijah stared at on Gunnar Lindstrom, his expression betraying none of the conflict in his mind.  The man was beaten, in pain, and wholly drained.  He posed no more threat.  And yet,...

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Chapter 733 - Cost of Victory

Zeke struggled.

No matter how hard he pulled, the threads that comprised Aja’s tree form refused the budge.  The first few had resisted as well, but he’d managed to pry them loose.&n...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 72 - Complexity

Just a quick note that I've made a couple of changes with Gunnar's perspective in previous chapters. The first is a mention of the skill he used to hide his traps. Fittingly, ...

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Chapter 732 - Threads of Fate

Aja screamed, her voice echoing across all of reality.  Zeke’s eardrums burst, and his body began to unravel.  A quick pulse of [Hand of Creation] held it together, though not without a...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 71 - The Other Side

Exhaustion gripped Gun, body and mind.  He felt like he’d been running for years.  His store of ethera was all but depleted, with only a shallow puddle remaining in his core.  Even...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 70 - Cat and Mouse

Elijah leaped high into the air, narrowly avoiding the bullet, which slammed into a nearby tree, shattering its trunk in a shower of splinters.  The tree tipped over with a creak, catching in ...

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Death: Genesis 9 Available on Kindle and Audible

I just wanted to make a post letting everyone know that Death: Genesis 9 is now available on Kindle and...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 69 - Evening the Odds

It was all a show.

Elijah was well aware that everyone was watching, and he also knew how they would react to the Shape of the Sky.  After all, it was still the most visually impressive ...

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