Death After Death PLUS 379-381
Ch. 379 - Hidden in the Shadows (part 2)
Despite the fact that there were hours of daylight left, they searched the city no further that day. Instead, every effort went int...
2026-02-09 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Death After Death PLUS 376-378
Ch. 376 - Getting Used to Anything
In the days that followed, Simon’s new situation stabilized and quickly became normal, and every interaction reinforced what he’d alr...
2026-02-02 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 373-375
Ch. 373 - Put Through His Paces
For four more days, Simon was treated to some version of these events. He was healed and bled, he was fed and drugged, but always, he was qu...
2026-01-26 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy Least Productive Week
Normally this is the sort of post readers see right before their favorite story goes on haitus. Life happens, delays pile up, and backlogs run out. Then suddenly, your weekly jolt of escapism vanis...
2026-01-22 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 370-372
Ch. 370 - Off the Beaten Path (part 3)
It was dark well before they reached the little hamlet of Elem Field, and they smelled the smoke of recently torched homes and fields...
2026-01-19 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 367-369
Ch. 367 - A Squire for Hire
After the challenge was delivered, there was very little delay. Sir Derinholt put a few things on his horse, then came out of the stables with h...
2026-01-12 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 364-366
Ch. 364 - One Last Time
After a couple of days, Simon spent very little time meditating or trying to understand what they needed to do next. The reason for that was very si...
2026-01-05 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 361-363
Ch. 361 - Further Delays
The group’s trip back to the coast, and the trade city that sat on it, was slowed by Aranna’s mother, Lorinda, more than it was by Simon’s wo...
2025-12-29 14:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone!
What a year 2025 was. Mine was pretty hectic, but I hope everyone had a great day and a good year.
While I already handed out my presents to you in the form ...
2025-12-25 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 357-360
Merry Christmas, Have a bonus chapter!
Ch. 357 - Greater Insights
The leap from seeing nothing to seeing the auras around him was not a subtle thing. For a few months...
2025-12-22 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 354-356
Ch. 354 - Stirrings of the Soul
Simon relayed the men’s order to his cook, then took the backstairs up to his room to retrieve a few things. If they’re going to tra...
2025-12-15 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 351-353
Ch. 351 - A Different Path
Simon went down the coast, stopping in a number of fishing villages on his way to Abresse, but he didn’t quite make it there before he turned a...
2025-12-08 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 348-350
Ch. 348 - A New Perspective
Simon didn’t get married in the year that followed, but he wasn’t quite driven out of Rivenwood either by the efforts of women who were tryi...
2025-12-01 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 345-347
Ch. 345 - A Familiar Bed
The first clue that Simon was waking up in Rivenwood and not his cabin was the pain. It was worst in his head, but as soon as he shifted slightly, ...
2025-11-24 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 342-344
Ch. 342 - Regeneration
After a short lifetime of training, Simon still didn’t feel ready, but he still opened up the trapdoor and threw himself into the fray anyway. That...
2025-11-17 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 339-341
Ch. 339 - Blast from the Past
The mirror burned with the complicated magic his twin wrote there. For a moment, it was jut those lines of power, but as the spell took hold a...
2025-11-10 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 336-338
Ch. 336 - Countermeasures
The journey to return the corpses and lay them to rest took only a couple of weeks, but Simon didn’t come back until the end of summer, after th...
2025-11-03 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 333-335
Ch. 333 - Further Expeditions
During Simon’s third year in Charia, the first of the mines he’d argued for and sold the rights to began serious operations, increasing th...
2025-10-27 13:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 147-149
Ch. 147 - Aftermath
The sunken city that had been this demon prince’s seat of power for who knew how long had stood untouched in its timeless way, but now it was co...
2025-10-20 14:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 330-332
Ch. 330 - Witch Hunter
Simon cast a hundred spells that month, before he returned to Adonan and saw Eddek’s serious face again. It might have been more than that; he didn...
2025-10-20 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe's Back...
Hello everyone, at long last, I returned home this past weekend. I spent a few days in bed recovering from the jet lag, but now things are pretty much back to normal. While I was in America I overi...
2025-10-17 19:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 144-146
Ch. 144 - The Abyssal Depths
One hundred Life Force was a lot of power. It was the value of the average human soul, or the vitality of a strong man. A hero could have doubl...
2025-10-13 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 327-329
Ch. 327 - Doing Business
When the time came, he invited a delegate from every clan that might have a claim, but only half of them came. He supposed he didn’t blame them. ...
2025-10-13 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 141-143
Ch. 141 - Center of the Universe
The blade’s wielder tightened its grip on its hilt at that word. Serve. It was an insult nearly as bad as coward or traitor. Still, it di...
2025-10-06 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 324-326
Ch. 324 - A Long Winter
A few weeks after his trial by combat, the snows started in earnest. Up until now, every day had been getting drearier and grayer as the temperature...
2025-10-06 13:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 138-140
Ch. 138 - An Island of Splendor
The Ebon Blade had been slightly concerned that it would have to walk across the bottom of some vast lake until it reached the island it sou...
2025-09-29 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 321-323
Ch. 321 - A New City
The shouting and acrimony vanished almost as soon as the drinking started, which amused Simon greatly. If these people could just get this level of...
2025-09-29 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAway For a Bit
So, as most of you know, I'm an American who lives abroad because I made the unfortunate mistake of marrying a wonderful German woman a couple of years back, which means my old life is in North Ame...
2025-09-23 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 135-137
Ch. 135 - The Way Forward
While the Iron City wasn’t quite a burning crater when the blade left, it was a close thing. The demonic denizens of the place were apparently a...
2025-09-22 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 186-187
Ch. 186 - Everyone’s Invited
In that moment, all Lucas wanted was to find somewhere quiet so that he could be alone with his new wife, but he wasn’t given that option. ...
2025-09-22 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post