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Survivors

OK, I *promise* the next thing I write will be short and sweet.

So I wrote another frickin' novella. For those of you wondering, "why isn't Ice Bear posting anything when he's stuck in quaran...

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The Gamemaster's Screen now available on Amazon & Smashwords!

So hey, I wrote another book. :D It's up now on Amazon, and for those of you who've espoused a dislike of funneling mone...

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$20+ reward, The Gamemaster's Screen

At long last, here we have The Gamemaster's Screen, the first book in the Character Creation series. For those of you who were reading the chapters as it went along, there has been some significant...

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Educational Programming

Every now and then I go through old my old stories to refresh myself on what all I've produced, what I liked, what worked, etc. One commission from a couple years back that I rediscovered recently ...

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Rachel's Love Potion 2: Part 5

Here we go, folks! The fifth and final portion of Rachel's Love Potion 2: Rachel's Love Potion's Love Potion. 

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Work in progress: Gamemaster's Screen cover art

As you know, I usually don't splurge on customized cover art, to results ranging from "eh, that's not bad" to "wtf were you even thinking letting people see that". But I thought for this, what the ...

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"The Position"

Hey everybody! Here's a little story called The Position. It's set back in the 50's, and features a high school principal and his attempt to teach a very unruly young woman. It's exclusively for $5...

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"Losers" up on Amazon

For a lot of you, this isn't much of an announcement, so if you already downloaded and read Losers, there's not much new to this other than the cover image. (Though I have added the version with co...

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Losers

Holy freaking crap, folks. Like I said in my last post, I got an idea, and I was grateful to have the permission of the January commission winner to go crazy with it. When I thought "go crazy with ...

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Tolerance, and the Tolerant

Shame on me. Folks, I took Tolerance and The Tolerant down a long time ago from the EMCSA, and at the time, I told myself I'd fix all the many many problems I have with it, then put it up for sale....

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Rachel's Love Potion 2: Part 4

Whew! I hope everybody had delightful holidays. I for sure did. Of course, it's January 9th, so I'm kinda behind the curve of those sorts of well-wishes, but oh well. I had family over for a week a...

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Indentured Bimbotude

Howdy hey! It's December's commission drawing winner, this month with Indentured Bimbotude. It's a concept I'd thought about before, volunteering oneself as a sexual indentured servant in exchange ...

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Rachel's Love Potion, Part 3

Wanted more? Here's more! Keeping it short and sweet this time, like Rachel herself.

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Commission: JBB Presents

Just go read it. Then the rambling below will make more sense. I recommend the pdf format, because the font shifts will show up more readily, which help with the flow.

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Rachel's Love Potion's Love Potion, Part 2

So here it is, the second part, in which we learn a bit about how Rachel's amateur warlockery affected her friend. It's probably not quite as much fun at the previous part, but is a necessary bridg...

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Rachel's Love Potion 2, Part 1

UPDATE: The original Rachel's Love Potion story is available here. Sorry I didn't include that originally!


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Commission: Scratch Where It Glitches

And here we have this month's commission drawing winner, who wanted a little story about a bionic implant run amok. I don't know if it was at all inspired by the weaker implants I've employed as a ...

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Living the Dream, Part 2

So here's the second part of Living the Dream. Now, I realized the other day as I was halfway through this installment that Alan Smithee was writing a *very* similar story over at the EMCSA. I got ...

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Living the Dream, Part 1 & ANNOUNCEMENT

Howdy everybody! I'll start with announcement stuff, then set up the new story. The $50 tier benefit has for some time been, in addition to all the stuff from other tiers, getting access to story c...

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Wasted TIOS opportunities (random amusement)

Man. Between Jordan, Conner and Amanda, I can't believe not a single one of those thought to use TIOS to grant a dog full student status with a gimmick like this.

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Introducing: The Roles We Play

Here it is, your first look at the next Big Thing coming your way from Ice Bear, Inc.! It's very tentatively entitled "The Roles We Play" (hereafter RWP unless I someday confirm this as the final t...

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Commission: The 10-54 on Hemlock Street

OK, so here's something new, and it's really something kind of New. Finally someone has sought a commission that wasn't more alternaTIOS, and not only is it something original, but it's maybe a fir...

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Commission: Extra Credit (a TIOS story)

First off, another quick plug for all the interesting discussing happening on my community page. Some posts are up ...

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Coming Soon

I've been rewatching/finishing Orange Is The New Black the past few weeks with my mom as she recovers from back surgery, and it made me feel like I was lagging on my current projects. There's somet...

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Early release: "I Am So Bored"

Howdy everyone! A new story for you today that I'll be posting elsewhere later, but you wonderful people are first to the show. The title stems not at all from my own sentiments, but rather those o...

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Tolerance, and the Tolerant

So of all the stuff I've written, this series is by far the one I've gotten the most feedback on. (For the millionth time, sorry about Emily!) I took it off the web a long time back, planning on re...

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Faculty Meeting

Howdy, folks! Another TIOS-inspired tale for y'all, continuing the work begun with Sub Notes and Lesson Plans. I won't say much to foreshadow, but hopefully it scratches that "man, but here's what ...

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$20 downloads

To ease the convenience of accessing your rewards, I've gone ahead and attached a copy of every story available to $20 patrons in one post. Stories are included as of 4/20 as both pdf and epub. Goi...

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TIOS Recap

Howdy, everybody! Thanks so much for all of your feedback since this past weekend's publication of This Was Our Time, the TIOS version of End Game. (Lower cultural impact, sure, but consider the bu...

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This Was Our Time now live on Amazon!

And here it is, everybody! I hope you enjoy it, as well as the rest of your weekend!

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