Chapter 73: The Journey home
"It’s a funny thing, coming home. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realise what’s changed is you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2022-03-05 23:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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March Posting plan
Heads up, it is that time of the month.
Good news
1. I'm still writing 6 months after starting this during a summer holiday. February saw my highest number of patrons reaching 321! Tha...
2022-02-27 10:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72: The walls we build
"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself."
Unknown
A lot can happen in a year. Then again, not a lot can happen in a year too! The question was, 'Which ...
2022-02-27 00:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71: Short or Long?
“Time flies when you are having fun.”
Albert Einstein
Alderman Cadmus POV
The Swift finally arrived at the island Wester Ponente, the furthermost isle of the...
2022-02-24 02:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70: How time flies
“Time heals all wounds.”
Stephen King
My brain had spun until I had passed out again. I was woken up to . . .
“Joyful anniversary.” Shouted by my family ...
2022-02-21 17:34:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69: Happy Birthday!
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
Robert Burns
Tick . . . tock . . . tick . . . tock
6 . . . 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!
Happ...
2022-02-19 21:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68: Elixir
"Optimism is the elixir of life for the weak."
Max Hastings
Waking up the next morning, was a roller coaster of emotions. The initial calm as your brain transitions between unconsciou...
Chapter 67: The other foot
“You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it, it has a way of doing that. Sometimes you can never put the shoe on the other foot.”
Kristen Ashley
<... 2022-02-03 21:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66: Wheel of truth
“Try to remain truthful. The power of the truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it’s truth that prevails.
Dalai Lam...
2022-02-02 22:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65: House of cards
“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”
Jenna Alatari
“You’re lying...
2022-02-01 23:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64: Luck be a lady tonight
“There are rules to luck. Not everything is chance to the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”
Baltasar Gracian
I had already had two naps today. So, even thoug...
2022-01-30 01:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostEditing: Areas to improve on.
When I started this project it was a holiday project. I got lucky on Royal Road and it took off.
Now that it could possibly be more than a hobby at some point, I am going to have to edit Sin...
Chapter 63: At the end of the day
“At the end of the day, it’s important to know what really matters most in life . . . your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.”
Les Brown<...
2022-01-29 00:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary posting plan
It is that time of the month.
Hoping to get out another chapter or two before the end of January but it looks like I will be Covid negative for 2 days in a row over the weekend so back to wo...
Chapter 62: Time to awaken
“Sleeping is no mean art: for it’s sake one must stay awake all day.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
I awoke slowly for once, there is something about oblivion that puts yo...
2022-01-27 22:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61: Identifying the imbalance
“If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.”
Naoto Kan
Stunned silence dripped to the floor, as the beer slowly trickled ...
2022-01-26 22:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60: Mind over matter
“Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.”
David Adam
I had been here before. Sat in...
2022-01-25 22:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59: A mother's secret
“If you want to keep a secret then you have to hide it from yourself.”
George Orwell
Now, this I had to see! My eyes spasmed open enough for me to be able to l...
2022-01-24 23:41:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58: The truth of the matter
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
“The child is imbalanced.” sighed Grandfather.
After I had been caught...
2022-01-24 00:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57: Quiet time
“Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, I think more than I speak and observe more than you know.”
Michaela Chung
I’ve become a li...
2022-01-23 00:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate
I am alive and Singer Sailor Merchant Mage will continue.
Just an apology for the delay in the chapter I am working on it. I have got sucked into researching the overarching conce...
2022-01-17 00:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56: Alternative streams
"Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source."
Warren Buffett
Rome was not built in a day but every day they laid bricks or somethi...
2022-01-09 03:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: Building character
“Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”
Hugh B Brown
We had done another two jumps over the last fortnight and this mean...
2022-01-02 01:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary Posting Plan
Looking at work for the next month. The posting plan is as follows.
Saturday 1st January Ch 55
Saturday 8th January Ch 56
Saturday 15th January Ch 57
Saturday 22nd January Ch ...
Chapter 54: Ignorance is bliss
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
H.P. Lovecraft
“Are you ready?...
2021-12-28 18:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53: Audere est Facere
“To dare is to do . . . to fear is to fail.”
John Goddard
As Yoda once wisely said ‘Do or do not. There is no try.’ I would either be succeeding or I wouldn’...
2021-12-25 04:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostKai's Wandering Thoughts
A little light piano music Kai plays and composes in his mind fortress when thinking sometimes. Short and sweet an original composition.
Chapter 52: Happy days
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
Not sure why I was entertaining the idea but . . . “Needs to be higher and clo...
Chapter 51: New heights
“Catalyst, a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change, or a person or thing that precipitates an event.”
<...
2021-12-22 02:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50: Positive Catalyst
“The home is the greenhouse in which baby humans are nurtured until they are strong enough to withstand the elements outside.”
Rick Boyer
Ever since the anger, ove...
2021-12-18 18:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post