I guess we had a plan, anyway. It wasn’t one I was thrilled with, as it put Kara immediately in harm’s way. She was the one putting herself at risk, though. Same as I was. I hoped she’...
2025-01-16 16:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhat do you do, when a horde of hundreds of zombies comes rushing down the mall concourse toward you?
Well, in my case, I ordered my undead T.rex to shoot a Fireball at ‘em.
Th...
2025-01-16 02:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later, Kara and I were scouting the mall, scoping the place out to find the best way inside. It turned out this was going to be a tougher nut to crack than we’d first thought. At n...
2025-01-14 22:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostI woke as the first rays of dawn hit my eyelids after what had been a very fitful night’s sleep. Kara and I crashed in one of the watchtower parapets. Sue stood guard at the bottom of the ...
2025-01-14 01:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostSue bounded down the hill toward the advancing army of zombies and spat out a quick Fireball on the way. The spell exploded right in front of the horde, sending clods of dirt flying in all d...
2025-01-11 01:42:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs the drum-beat picked up, I glanced at the horizon, where the fading sun was just beginning to slip below the horizon. On the one hand, I loved being proved right. It always felt nice to k...
2025-01-10 01:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me more than a few minutes to get across the concept of a ‘map’ to the rat-guy. When I first showed it to him, he had no idea what he was looking at. For him, it was a picture wi...
2025-01-08 22:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostWe hadn’t even been there for a couple of hours, and already the fort was under attack? That wasn’t a great sign. I’d been hedging about whether I ought to use the control stone here o...
2025-01-07 22:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe reached the old goblin fort in the late afternoon, before dusk. I went in first, riding Sue, because I figured if anything nasty had taken up residence while I was away, we’d be able to...
2025-01-07 00:51:18 +0000 UTC View Post(Author Note: Whoops! Okay, there's one more chapter for the first book. I figured we couldn't wrap the book without showing one last look at Gideon's situation; and since we were saying he...
2025-01-04 02:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post(A little Author's Note here! This chapter represents the end of what will be book one of this series. Don't worry! I'm continuing with the story, and the beginning of book two will arrive ...
2025-01-02 17:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostKara woke me a little before noon with—gasp!—a cup of hot coffee. It was instant, but that was fine, as far as I was concerned.
“How?” I asked, taking the steaming cup from her...
2025-01-02 02:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostAll I could do was plant my shield in front of my face and hope for the best as the fireball shot toward me. This was going to hurt, no matter what I did.
My undead had other plans, th...
2025-01-01 03:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post(Managed to get a bonus chapter ready for you today. Enjoy!)
I heard the arrows whistling past my head and raised my shield to stop them. One thudded into the aluminum, glanc...
2024-12-31 01:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe stopped by the greenhouse before setting out. That’s where they’d buried Kat and the other casualties from the goblin attacks—just outside the greenhouse, on the lawn, was a row of ...
2024-12-30 22:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostDon’t ask me how the skeletal remains of a sixty-something million year old dinosaur was able to roar. I haven’t the foggiest idea. The only answer I can give is ‘magic,’ and I doubt...
2024-12-30 01:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe found Alfred and his people at the next building over. After leaving the greenhouse, we continued deeper into the campus. Everything was dark; without lights, without even moonlight, it w...
2024-12-28 19:24:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe goblins were so busy with their own fight, they didn’t even see the threat until we were right on top of them. As my skeletons marched forward, moving in two columns of tight ranks bet...
2024-12-28 00:01:29 +0000 UTC View PostI woke to a gentle vibration at my wrist, plus a pinging sound. My eyes snapped open, and I was fully alert in moments; but it was just my watch. I’d set the alarm for seven in the evening...
2024-12-27 02:03:10 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted to shoot a quick thanks and hello to everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the story so far - there's SO much more of this coming!
Today is a holiday for just about everyone, and whe...
2024-12-26 01:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy undead army was in pretty good shape. Thanks to my crystals, I could Animate sixteen tiers worth of undead, and Control another sixteen. I wasn’t maxed out, but I was fairly close.
<... 2024-12-26 01:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe smithy they’d set up was a bit off the beaten path. Farnsworth took me out toward the airfield. We didn’t leave the fenced in area of the base proper, but we were a lot closer to the...
2024-12-25 01:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs Maura poked around in the big cabinet behind her, opening drawers and peering into them, I looked over the stones I had as spares, wondering which I could afford to give away. I had quite...
2024-12-23 21:37:09 +0000 UTC View PostGideon rode back toward his castle, an army at his back. He’d never felt so strong, so in control. He wished more than anything that his wife was still here to see this, because if she wer...
2024-12-20 22:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostAt that point the meeting was pretty much done. Colonel Turner dismissed me, saying he and his people would work on a plan to get to Alfred and his people. I had a sneaking suspicion it wasn...
2024-12-20 02:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhere Turner’s office had been small, without much flair or extravagance, this room was anything but. It looked like the sort of hidden military command post you saw on movies: a huge<...
2024-12-19 04:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostColonel Turner glanced at Farnsworth, then directly at me, sizing me up. There was something positively magnetic about the man. I felt drawn to him in a way I couldn’t explai...
2024-12-18 23:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced at the uniformed party, and I had to admit, I was impressed. Their top guy was tier five, a man who was maybe in his early forties and looked to be in charge. His rank had a whole ...
2024-12-17 22:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe were both up shortly after dawn the next morning, which I supposed was becoming the new normal. Now that there were no more alarm clocks, something had to wake us up, and there were a sho...
2024-12-16 22:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostA short while later, we were walking away from the mess we’d left behind. We were a little singed and smelled of smoke, but Kara’s antics had recovered all of the trapped s...
2024-12-16 01:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post