Halcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty-Five
I want to fly like an eagle,
Let my spirit carry me”
- The Steve Miller Band
“’Cause I’m free as a bird now,
And this bird you cannot change”
- L...
2024-12-02 14:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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Halcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty-Four
Albert Head, Victoria, British Columbia - June 16, 2043, 11:23 PM
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The wooden floorboards creak under my feet—I can practically smell 2024-11-30 14:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Halcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty-Three
Location Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Reality mends itself.
My Stability’s still shot. The Voiceless Singer’s still here. The magm...
2024-11-29 14:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty-Two
[Anomaly] PROVISIONAL Entity - Voiceless Singer
[Status] Uncontained
[Type] Unknown
Halcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty-One
Alice has always been the smartest girl I know.
But Sora’s a genius.
She got really into Sun Tzu last year—into maneuver and strategy and how to apply them to...
2024-11-25 14:16:36 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Thirty
Chapter One
A long time ago, in eighth grade last year, Sora and I got caught smoking under the bleachers.
We didn’t exactly get caught, really. We started a fire. Th...
2024-11-23 14:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Nine
Math was always my favorite subject.
It didn’t lie. It didn’t play favorites. If you understood how to divide, you could divide anything—except zero. If you knew the quadratic formula, ...
2024-11-22 14:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Eight
Location Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Twenty minutes later, I’m back in Provisional Reality ARC, without Alice this time. She’s on her w...
2024-11-20 14:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Seven
Location Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Lieutenant Olivia Rodriguez hit the far side of the merge portal on her hands and knees; she’d learn...
2024-11-18 15:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Six
SHOCKS Headquarters, Victoria, British Columbia - June 15, 2043, 9:41 PM
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Alice pulled on her pajamas in Claire’s bathroom, even though the night was still y...
2024-11-15 14:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Five
I actually tried out for the middle school soccer team at Landsdowne.
That was the first time I met Alice’s best friend, Candice. She was a year younger than my sister. Maybe she still is; ...
2024-11-14 15:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Four
There will be two additional chapters over the next two days as I work on the first deadline for Writathon. Enjoy the chapters.
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Downtown Victori...
2024-11-13 16:06:13 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Three
[SHOCKS Internal Communications Log] EVG Control Zone, August 13, 2032
Trooper Sarah Evans; Director Zoltan Carroll
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Carroll: Status rep...
2024-11-11 14:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-Two
The amount of free processing power shocked James.
He hadn’t realized how much of his attention was on Claire and SHOCKS Victora/Vancouver Island until the girl vanished. Thousands of free ...
2024-11-09 14:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty-One
Location Unknown, Location Unknown, Time Unknown
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Strauss’s feed to his drone cut off instantly. One second, he could see the red-lit room he’d been invest...
2024-11-08 14:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Twenty
On my nature trip up to Ucluelet, we spent a lot of time on the beach. My friends—or at least, my classmates—wanted to find hermit crabs. I tried to tell them that hermit crabs were mo...
2024-11-06 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Nineteen
Hello Readers,
I am participating in both NaNoWriMo and Writathon this month with this story, so expect more frequent updates (between 3 and 4 a week, ideally). We'll return to a...
2024-11-04 14:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Eighteen
I know a few things now.
When I’m in over my head, for example. That one’s easy to figure out; all I have to do is look around. But I also know from trying to fix things that Alice is the...
2024-10-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Seventeen
Victoria, British Columbia - April 13, 2033, 4:23 PM
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Dinner’s going to be chicken nuggets, ketchup, and frozen veggies.
And probably ...
2024-10-21 13:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Sixteen
The Truth Club used to listen to music under the bleachers.
It only happened on days when the soccer team wasn’t practicing, and only once we were done sharing our truths. Keith provided th...
2024-10-18 13:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System 2 Chapter Fifteen
Robert Pendleton shivered in the armchair.
Everything was fucked up. Everything was wrong.
Everything hurt.
This wasn’t his La-Z Boy, and the can he was sipping on tast...
2024-10-14 12:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Fourteen
It wakes up.
The world around it is null and void. An empty space. Not black, not gray, but truly colorless. Just like it’s always been. It swims in the void; it is the void, and the void i...
2024-10-07 14:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Thirteen
Hello, Readers. Today, Magical Girl Undergrad's second book came out on Audible and Kindle. If you're curious about some of my other writing, but couldn't get started before it all stubbed, thi...
2024-10-01 14:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Twelve
Hello. Due to forces beyond my comprehension (but also entirely outside of my control), Monday's chapter will appear on Tuesday instead. I'm going to be traveling, and while it's written, I won...
2024-09-27 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Eleven
The sickest I’ve been was in fourth grade.
Mr. Clyde sent me home. Of course, Dad couldn’t come pick me up—we didn’t have a car, and he couldn’t have found the keys even if we did. ...
2024-09-23 13:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Ten
Fired this one off a day early. Whoops. Enjoy, though!
The toughest part about Alice’s Mom mask isn’t that it’s a lie.
It’s that she’s only three years older t...
2024-09-19 18:32:46 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Nine
I should never have taken Mom’s dress.
SHOCKS probably has my cargo pants somewhere, too. And my shoes—but they can keep those, or, hopefully, burn them. They were holey, and they stank. ...
2024-09-16 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Eight
SHOCKS Headquarters, Victoria, British Columbia - June 6, 2043, 11:37 PM
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“Three. Two. One.”
The window exploded, and Strauss swung on his rope, roll...
2024-09-13 15:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Seven
One thing I haven’t figured out about thinnings, merges, and reality-hopping is why it always smells so funky.
It’s roses and machine oil, or daffodils, or lavender and rot. And I don’t...
2024-09-09 13:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostHalcyon System Two Chapter Six
Sora, Keith, and I were always careful about the single cigarette we’d smoke under the bleachers.
No smoking when people were sitting over us. No smoking if it hadn’t rained in a couple o...
2024-09-03 13:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post