Chapter 49: One story at a time
“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
Leo Buscaglia
It might be uncharted territory but sometimes you just needed to wake your ...
2021-12-11 13:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Notlimah posts
Positive Household
Feel like I could somehow turn that into a title for a chapter. Unfortunately, we are now a covid positive household. Adults are all double jabbed so fingers crossed things will be okay. Daug...
2021-12-05 10:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostDecember Posting Plan
Looking at work for the next month. The posting plan is as follows.
Saturday 4th December Ch 49
Saturday 11th December Ch 50
Saturday 18th December Ch 51
Monday 20th Dec...
Chapter 48: Time reveals all
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
Jean Racine
“We all have our own little secrets.” My mother’s words echoed in my mind. I certainly do and I guess some have m...
2021-11-29 23:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate
Paternity leave is over :(
Back to work :(
Commute :(
Looking at the work that has been done for the last 2 weeks, I'm going to have to redo half of it which is time consuming and a pa...
Chapter 47: Nothing is set in stone
“Everything changes, even stone.”
Claude Monet
Mother, Father, and Aleera finally arrived on the island which put an end to my Grandfather's potentially lethal tra...
2021-11-22 18:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46: Stepping stone
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”
William Prescott
As we sailed to the island, hidden in a bag I looked once more at my stats. The excitement of the fall, c...
2021-11-19 13:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 Nature, nurture or simply fate
Chapter 45 Nature, nurture or simply fate
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare
Kaius POV<...
2021-11-19 13:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44 – A short tale so far
“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
Seneca
My funeral was a sad occasion.
Super senses, Echolocation, Eave...
2021-11-16 22:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostDiscord Invites
Excuse me for being a Luddite but I have no idea if I have set this up correctly or not.
For some reason, I thought everyone would pop up in discord.
Guess we will find out in a minute or tw...
Chapter 43: You only live thrice?
“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
Ian Fleming
In my case, I had already literally lived twice. Once in my old world, once in my...
2021-11-13 23:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate, it's a boy!
Good morning, afternoon, evening,
Good news my paternity leave has started so will be at home and hopefully write a little more. However have been in and out of hospital and awake for the m...
Chapter 42: A little learning to be done
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
Albert Einstein
During the night I awoke, startled from my sleep, wrapped in my mother's arms. I had been dre...
2021-11-08 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTo time skip or not to time skip
One of the main requests for the story so far is to jump ahead a little in age.
What do you think?
Also if time skipping should it be a month, a year, or more?
2021-11-07 09:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41: My old enemy
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. You just have to take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr
Stairs. There were so many of them and they went on for so long. I may hav...
2021-11-05 20:34:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40: No time to die
“First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury
I had not jumped.
I had been thrown.
I had not seen that coming.<...
2021-11-01 00:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostPosting plan for November
Good morning, afternoon or evening,
Patron is something new for me I have had it running for 3 months and finding the right balance between free and paid has been a challenging balancing act....
2021-10-29 09:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39: A dish best served cold
“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us Shall we not revenge?”
Merchant of Venice, William Sha...
2021-10-28 12:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38: A hostage to fortune
“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
...
2021-10-25 17:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 37: The Devil is in the details
“A good deal is a state of mind.”
Lee Iacocca
“500!” I had eventually counted up to 500 and the back and forth between us had eventually reached the middle.
“500.” Mer...
2021-10-23 21:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36: A drop in the Ocean
“We ourselves feel that we are just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Mother Teresa
Feeling stupid is something everyone feels once in ...
2021-10-21 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: Frog in a well
“A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar ca...
2021-10-09 18:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: Go where the wind blows
“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects the wind to change, the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
There is very little choice t...
2021-10-03 14:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: Best foot forward
“Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth.”
Morris Mandel
As soon as he landed on the island we scarpered. At half Aleera’s size I am still the millstone...
2021-09-28 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostBye bye money :(
Responding to feedback and exit polls I have edited the tiers and the amount of chapters that you can all access. You have 3 days (today, tomorrow and Thursday I think) to edit your tiers before Pa...
2021-09-28 06:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostHow much is Singer Sailor Merchant Mage worth per month to you?
Good morning, afternoon or evening,
Feeling a little bit like a taxi today my daughter has had a language lesson, gymnastics, and about to go get her from a birthday party and I have also ta...
Revised Chapter 27: Sensory Overload
(Thank you for your patience with Singer Sailor Merchant Mage I'm posting this chapter to Royalroad now and it is a revised longer chapter 27 approximately between 700 to 800 extra words no stat ch...
2021-09-23 20:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: A journey of a thousand miles.
Qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A week later. . .
It turned out that Grandfather would ...
2021-09-19 18:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Begging forgiveness
“It being less difficult to obtain forgiveness for it after it was done, than permission for doing it.”
Earl of Peterborough
After a short explanation of what had ...
2021-09-16 00:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post