We’d gone straight back to the Farm from the Guard base, rolled up our sleeves, and got to work. There was too much that needed doing, so much that I barely even knew where to start. Fortu...
2025-05-15 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon’s wings sliced through the northern wind with steady, thunderous rhythm. Peter Eddings sat tall in the saddle, the cold air whipping his coat behind him as the land rolled by be...
2025-05-14 02:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostSue’s skeletal feet crunched along the cracked asphalt streets as we rode northeast. Kara rode behind me, seated cross-legged in the saddle behind Sue’s spine with her bow slung across h...
2025-05-12 22:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe inner wall was almost finished. The full outer perimeter wall that would someday protect the crops and grazing fields was still just some stakes in the ground to mark where it would even...
2025-05-09 22:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostPeter Eddings adjusted his seat on the hand-made saddle and leaned slightly forward, one gloved hand resting on the curve of the dragon’s neck. The scales beneath his fingers were a deep r...
2025-05-08 21:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostI had to take back all my previous thoughts about General Jefferson being stuffy and quiet, because holy shit, can that man throw a party.
Or maybe it wasn’t him at all. Maybe it was...
2025-05-07 20:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostI took to the air, magic pushing me upward as I climbed for a better view. The sky above Camp Johnson was streaked with smoke, the rising sun casting long shadows across a battlefield that h...
2025-05-06 22:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe groaning crash of the collapsed siege tower was still echoing across the field when the next wave surged forward. I turned and spotted another tower creeping in from the west. Orcs dragg...
2025-05-05 22:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe moved fast. There was no time to waste. Kara and Clay organized our people, gathering fifty living warriors, mounted on salvaged bicycles. Twelve abominations jogged in their shambling lu...
2025-05-05 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post(Got that first catch-up chapter for you today! I'll have another for you tomorrow, too - already partway finished it. Just don't want to fall behind 'cause I was sick a couple of days....
2025-05-03 20:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe road we’d built running from the highway to the farm wasn’t much more than packed earth and gravel. On either side were fields in various states of being reclaimed from the wild. The...
2025-05-02 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies, folks! I have been given six zillion vaccines thanks to my time in the Army - they lost my shot records a few times, so I got the full series a lot! Never had ...
2025-05-01 23:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, I’m so sorry. I have come down with something crappy and I’ve been resting all day. There won’t be a chapter today. I’ll try to do a makeup chapter later this week.
2025-04-29 21:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostOverall, the operation was a complete success. The battlefield still smoked in places as we pulled out. Fires smoldered where the fire skeletons had scorched the ground, goblin bodies litter...
2025-04-29 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostEven as I was thinking that, Plum smashed into the wall again, this time with enough force it almost threw me from my feet. I took to the air again, flying high enough that I was out of arro...
2025-04-25 23:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostBallistas—or was it ballistae? I was never sure where I ought to be using Latin endings and where I should just stick with English. Whatever they were called, though, they were bad news. 2025-04-24 22:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It was finally time to strike. My minions were in position. The small band of ratkin and humans we’d brought along were gathered around me, too. All we were really waiting for was...
2025-04-24 21:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe pipe worked better than I’d dared hope. Once Clay got it jammed into the entrance and we’d pulled back to safety, it flooded the nest fast. Water poured down into that tunnel with en...
2025-04-22 22:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay,” I said, squinting up at the rust-streaked water tower, “you’re going to have to walk me through this one, because all I’m seeing is an excuse for tetanus.”
Clay gav...
2025-04-21 21:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us two days to get everything ready for the mission I had in mind. I wanted badly to push ahead faster, but there simply wasn’t time to get everything required ready. The real barr...
2025-04-19 01:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt turns out that determining what to do with a giant dead chicken carcass that’s had zombies chewing on it was a little more complicated than it looked.
First off, folks wanted to b...
2025-04-17 20:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post(Bonus chapter today! Got some free time, which let me get in a little extra work today, and I figured folks would appreciate it if they got the resolution to the cliffhanger from last ...
2025-04-16 21:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe made it most of the way back to the farm without further incident.
We followed Dorset Street for about half of the trip, until we reached the spot where it crossed with the...
2025-04-16 18:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the day was shockingly uneventful, although after the dragon attack just about anything else might feel sedate, I supposed. Farnsworth and I were housed in adjoining rooms, with ...
2025-04-15 21:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostClay was watching me carefully. I got the impression he was seeing some of the same things I was, and we were going to need to have some long conversations, afterward. But not here. The last...
2025-04-14 21:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon gave a cry that felt loud enough to shatter stone. It certainly stunned me—I froze, standing there helpless for a moment as it continued its approach. I shook my head to clear i...
2025-04-14 17:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostPeter led us toward his table, which was already heavily laden with an astonishing variety of foods. I glanced at Farnsworth, but he was surprised as well. Back home, we were eating nonstop ...
2025-04-10 21:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostHarding led us to a stable near the gate where Farnsworth was asked to leave his mount. Once the horse was settled with a stableboy, we pressed on. Harding left about half his force near the...
2025-04-09 22:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe rider with the white flag slowed as he approached, reining in his horse with practiced ease. His armor shone as brightly as the others, but up close, I could see the scratches and dents...
2025-04-08 21:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostI prepped to leave early the next morning. We had a long voyage, and I wanted to get there as quickly as possible, arrive as early in the day as possible. It was only a few miles, but if we ...
2025-04-07 21:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post