RaReason

Things are getting better!

My drive to write is returning along with my health. I'm not going to make any promises right now about the schedule because the last two times I did that, something bonkers went wrong and swept my...

Book 3, Chapter Eight

Whisper

Whisper trudged through the underground tunnel they had dug many years ago, more tired than they could remember being in years. Being on the run was a special kind of exhaust...

Book 3, Chapter 7

One week later...

“I gotta say, Stanley, you make a pretty fuckin’ good poutine,” I said around a mouthful of gravy fries and cheese curds. I was sitting in the kitchen in a ch...

Book 3, Chapter 6

“Eh,” I said with a shrug. “It’s a gift.”

Trix’s laughter echoed across the flat planes of North Dakota as the two other figures regarded me with far cooler reactions. Trix had sh...

This chapter was supposed to be done a lot sooner

But I got hit with norovirus and spent a good long time hanging out with the toilet. The good news is that all that time being miserable meant I didn't have much to do except think about Colm and h...

Book 3, Chapter 5

Chapter Five

Albright

Albright laid his glasses on the desk and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Run that by me again?”

He was in his office, which was seeing much mor...

Book 3, Chapter 4

Jager leveled his polearm at me. I tensed, but no more lightning followed. In the moment that followed I took a moment to look him over. His armor looked like a mix of Viking armor and English plat...

Book 3, Chapter 3

I shot forward just as they opened up. Both squads had two big men with belt-fed machine guns, filling the hallway with lead (or, more likely, copper jacketed steel). One fellow was prone on the gr...

Book 3, Chapter 2

I felt my perception of time expand as my precognition gift from Trix commingled with my expanded powers from Other Me. Instead of seeing what I now knew as the most likely outcome of the future in...

I'm back

Some stuff happened that I won't go into too much detail. My body is doing an impression of the Blues Mobile pulling up to the Cook County building. One thing led to another and it made it harder a...

Book 3, Chapter 1

“I’m nervous,” I admitted, putting my Accord in park.

“Why?” Asked Alice. “It’s Ida.”

I grunted and climbed out of the tiny sedan. I opened the trunk and dropped the Web...

Book 3, Prologue—Part 2

Prologue—Part Two

Alice

Alice sighed as she stuffed her bag. Colm was working through books faster than she could provide new material. Elysium only allowed her to brin...

Book 3, Prologue—Part 1

Prologue—Part One

Kristy

“You don’t have to come back if you’re not ready,” Albright said distractedly as he typed out a quick email. Kristy resisted the urge to cu...

Another Update

First, chapters incoming. Two right after this post and a third tomorrow.

Second: Fuck this month.

It's been shit, life's been rough, but it's smoothing out. That's the main thing I wan...

Update!

Got two chapters done. Doing a new editing process this time around and want to hang onto the chapters for a little longer as there were times during book 2 that I wanted to go back and change thin...

I'm back!

VERY sorry for the long absence. A lot of shit happened, but the main thing that I was having trouble with was the direction of the third book.

I have learned after trying to write a couple h...

Unfathomable Power, Book 3 Jacket Blurb

(Or Story Question as Jim Butcher calls them)

Perdition Embraced

By RaReason

Colm has been through a lot. Pirates. Cultists. Existential nightmares. Litera...

American Eldritch, Chapter 10

My mind finally caught up with my feet when I crested a ridge, the quarry falling away before me. It wasn’t a big one, maybe a few hundred feet across. To the right was an old abandoned foreman�...

Just a heads up

If you weren't here or on RR last year around this time, you probably don't know that I am deathly allergic to mosquitos. This is a brand new thing that has manifested within the last two-to-three ...

American Eldritch, Chapter 9

I tried my best to mimic the bird call Dane taught me. I had just wanted to shout his name, but he cautioned against making too much of a ruckus in case the girl was in a less benign form of troubl...

American Eldritch, Chapter 8

“So?” Layla prompted excitedly, two days later. “What do you think?”

We were standing in what I now knew was called her parlor, which means “living room,” but fancier. Layla had r...

American Eldritch, Chapter 7

I didn’t sleep soundly, but I slept. The unfamiliar noises of the unfamiliar town kept waking me up, and once I rolled out of bed and had my gun pointed at the door, having heard someone walking ...

American Eldritch, Chapter 6

I couldn’t get comfortable in the bath with the door behind me, and turning around in the tub proved to be worse for different reasons, as the tub was sloped and had a drain on the other side tha...

So that wraps up book 2.

I wrestled a lot with this book. Unlike the first one, which came to me mostly fully formed in a dream, Book 2 was the answer to the question of "where does this go?" The ending changed multiple ti...

Unfathomable Power, Book 2, Epilogue

Box room was boring. But I learned that if I hit enough things and made enough noise, they’d shove things through the little hole in the door. Well, first they’d shoot me until I couldn’t mov...

Unfathomable Power, Book 2, Chapter 58

He kept laughing at me. Laughing as I struggled to breathe. I tried to think of anything I could use to escape him, but my attempts to push him away or hit him were pathetic. I tried to writhe, to ...

Unfathomable Power, Book 2, Chapter 57

I backpedaled as quickly as I could, avoiding the pole that the old man whipped back and forth with speed that cracked the air. I attempted to grab it on a backswing, nearly losing two fingers. Ins...

The profession he is referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up

Unfathomable Power, Book 2, Chapter 56

As I started walking back to the warehouse, I remembered I did kind of have something… clothing adjacent.

I had been avoiding the Limps of the Other Side because I had thought they were the...

Chapters coming, edits coming

I've been going down a rabbit hole of 1800s census data and the university of Missouri prices and wages archive to learn more about the nitty-gritty details of cowboy life. I wanted to clear my hea...