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Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 85

Ch. 85 - The End of Days (part 1)

It was a tense, still twilight, but when dawn first colored the horizon, nothing happened. Not right away. It wasn’t until the upper lim...

Death After Death Ch. 63

Ch. 63 - A Little Mistake

The answer proved to be zero, as it turned out. Without magic, he might have lost all of his digits, of course, but with a few applications of lesser healing, Simo...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 84

Ch. 84 - The Circle

Despite the titanic conflict that was taking place between two inhuman powers, it might have been any other day as far as the world was concerned. Barge...

Death After Death Ch. 62

Ch. 62 - The Right Tool for the Job

It took another three months before Simon felt like he understood what he was doing before he finally completed the enchantment on his s...

Fun With Covers (Re-Entry Update)

So, as I enter the home stretch on Re-Entry editing, I've decided to start working on covers. So far, I can't say I really love either approach, but hey - you've got to start somewhere. ...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 83

Ch. 83 - Devoured Whole

It had taken the Lich more than a decade of planning before the first stone for this complicated building had been laid. Hundreds of souls had labor...

Death After Death Ch. 61

Ch. 61 - Threads of Magic

It was only when Simon began to sew the runes of cold protection into the rabbit fur-lined gloves that he had made that he even understood that he...

A Whole Year Online

I will probably save the more retrospective post for new years, but I just wanted to put it out there that I have now been posting my stories online for a year. Letter of the Law technical...

Broken System Ch 1-10 (Preview)

Chapter 3 - Taming The Swamp

Chapter 3 uses up all my words for the month, so no more audio chapters until after they refresh on September 19th.  

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 82

Ch. 82 - Divine Fury

The altar glided to a stop, fixing in its original place as the hunched figure began to laugh. It was a rasping, dry sound that sounded utterly forced....

Death After Death Ch. 60

Ch. 60 - One Step at a Time

Once Simon was well enough that the village’s matriarch began to find an excuse to ask him when he was going to be leaving almost every day, h...

Handling Terrible Things

My next story, Broken System starts out pretty dark, though perhaps not quite as dark as Tenebroum, where someone is stabbed to death in the opening sentence. As a result, I've be...

Ch. 02 - Those That Followed

This chapter was extra-long, at almost 12 minutes. I had to do a couple attempts for some of the lines, but I'm very happy with how it turned out. Let me know what you think of the dialog.  2023-08-21 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 81

Ch. 81 - Incarnated

Even as he ran up the stairs, Todd was sure that something would grab him and drag him back down into the darkness. It was inevitable. This had all just...

Death After Death Ch. 59

Ch. 59 - Not Dead Yet

The next week was a blur for Simon, but it wasn’t any fun. He tried to remind himself that the previous week he’d spent mostly unconscious, though...

An Audiobook Experiment

So, this is the first chapter of Tenebroum's audiobook. It's AI, and it's not perfect, but for what it is I'm kind of blow of away at how it turned out. Currently I have the $5/mo subscrip...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 80

Ch. 80 - Kingdom of the Dead

The next few minutes of Todd’s life were stark terror, and he remembered nothing of them beyond his surprise that he didn’t hear that massi...

Death After Death Ch. 58

Ch. 58 - A Broken Man

Simon woke up slowly, and feeling the lumpy bed beneath him, he sighed. Despite all that, he’d been returned to his cabin, which meant that he was d...

When it Rains, It Pours

So as anyone on the discord knows, last week I wasn't around because of a personal emergency. Things are resolved, but if you ask me, the real tragedy is that I wrote less than 8k words last week. ...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 79

Ch. 79 -Cautious Decent

The hallway that left the well they’d descended quickly split again and again, branching in all directions. There was no danger of getting lost ju...

Tenebroum Ch. 69

Ch. 69 - The Eternal Flame

Even as the first waves of dwarves charged at him, the Lich began to flex and move in the unfamiliar body. It had only been the last few months that it had begun ...

Death After Death Ch. 57

Ch. 57 - Can’t Turn Away

When Simon arrived at the next level, he could still hear the golem thundering and crashing impotently beneath him. The thing was bigger than the...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 78

Ch. 78 - The Fourth Horseman

Passing through the shadows back to the Lich’s lair was a miserable experience for Krulm’venor. During that brief trip into the dark, he felt like every bon...

Tenebroum Ch. 68

Ch. 68 - Mournden

Though he did not know whether the Lich left him for a week or a year, his screams echoed through the dead city for a long time as Krulm’venor suffered in the same way h...

Death After Death Ch. 56

Ch. 56 - Secrets

The first time he’d been in this cave, he’d stumbled through the darkness toward the same sounds of chanting as he was now, but he’d been cocky. He h...

Big Week!

So, this week several interesting things happened. 

• After 13 months of writing, I finished Letter of the Law. Feels good. Patrons will see that Monday, and the general public will ...
  2023-07-28 13:33:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 77

Ch. 77 - Well of Darkness

What had just happened was impossible. Even stranger than the fact that the altar had suddenly vanished to some secret basement beneath the temple or that Brother ...

Tenebroum Ch. 67

Ch. 67 - The Shadow of Dishonor

It was on the night of winter’s first full moon while he was bathing deep in the pits of warm mud in the place of honor he’d earned that Tsson’vek saw ...

Death After Death Ch. 55

Ch. 55 - Get The Behind Me

“You’re not going to invite your friend to join us?” the demon asked as soon as Simon turned around. “I don’t generally prefer my meals w...