Matt Callaghan snored.
Curled up on his side, mouth slightly open, his limbs wrapped in a tangle of sheets and blankets, Matt slept soundly in the calm and quiet night. For a while Jane just lay there, listening to his breathing; watching the slivers of the city’s starlight flit across th...
2023-07-12 10:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Today's upload as you may have already seen is a supplemental entitled "The Practitioner's Guide to Telepathy in the Law". It is an extract from a larger supplemental I put together previously for higher tier patrons (so apologies to those folks, you'll likely have seen much o...
2023-07-10 09:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostA Practitioner’s Guide to Telepathy in the Law’
The Law Society of New South Wales, 2nd edition
Selected extracts
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Scope of Ability
1.4 Telepathic abilities are broken down into six overlapping functions or ef...
2023-07-10 09:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post~~ Interlude ~~
You step from the car and you are already drunk.
You pull the money clip from your breast pocket and throw notes at the limo driver, laughing as you insult his family, calling him ugly, a dog. His profuse thanks follow...
2023-07-08 08:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Jane,” he said finally, “It’s not that I want to die. And it’s not that I’m not grateful, it’s just…” He waved his hands about, trying to find the words. “Time travel! You know! This is dangerous. You told me it’s dangerous. Didn’t you?!”
Jane didn’t answer. Whe...
2023-07-06 10:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Basement?”
“Basement.”
“Hold on.”
Will scrunched up his eyes. Around them, there was a surge of noise, of flashes and shouting as the onlooking crowd suddenly realised what was about to happen – and then a moment later the cold light of the alley was subsumed bene...
2023-07-04 05:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post[Hey folks. I'm away this again this weekend and for pacing reasons the last segment was a bit short, so here's another one to tide you over until I'm back. Enjoy - Ben]
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“Stuart Louch.”
The police officer stood with one hand on her belt, the other clutching a palm-sized n...
2023-06-30 13:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post“NO!”
Time froze. The world around Jane fell silent, swallowed by the sound of her final gasping breath. The scene crystallised, the colours shining – a painting of perfect detail, suspended forever in gloss.
The bright-lit alley, moths floating, wings shining m...
2023-06-30 13:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostCASES ADJUDGED
IN THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
AT
OCTOBER TERM, 2000
–-------------
‘UNITED STATES V CALLAGHAN’
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT...
~~ Interlude ~~
I wake at 6:48am for that is my custom.
I rest not more than 12 minutes, one unit, a fifth of an hour, so that I am about my day by the seventh chime. Over-rest is as debilitating as under-rest and renders soft one’s...
2023-06-27 11:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Author's note: What's this? Two chapter releases in one day? No, I haven't misclicked a button, I'm just going away for the weekend and won't be at my computer to release the next chapter on time. Upside is, you get two fresh chapters instead of one. Patreon perks man...]
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“Please. God. No. Please.”
In the darkness of the warehouse the teleporting soldier reappeared – but not alone. Now, he dragged with him a shaking shadow of a man – a trembling, mangled figure, clad in nought but rags, his hands shackled in thick iron manacles bound behind h...
2023-06-22 21:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post*
“So what’s been happening since then?” Leno asked, “How’re you settling into this new life, where everyone knows who you are? Because you’re famous, you’re celebrities now aren’t you?”
“It’s weird,” agreed Matt, “I can’t go anywhere. People recognise me o...
2023-06-21 06:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostInside the warehouse, nobody moved. Nobody so much as breathed. Spread out between the shelves and tables the soldiers tensed, hands gripping their weapons. The big man behind Salt trembled, his meaty hand clutched tight around the diamond, the woman across from him breathing quickly, her fingers...
2023-06-19 06:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Steady on guv,” the man in the pinstriped suit replied. He fixed the thin old man with a smirk, though no humour reached his eyes. “Let’s see them first.”
The old man made no move to get up from his chair, but instead slid his gaze over to the nearest soldier with a soft, weary s...
2023-06-16 23:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostA few moments passed and eventually Leno looked up.
“Thank you. Thank you everyone, I think we needed to do that. Because look tonight, tonight might not be about the victims-”
“No but they’re such an important part,” added Matt.
“Absolutely, such a pivotal, pivotal ...
2023-06-15 07:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostThey came through the south-side entrance; a large man and a thick, greasy-haired woman, both in tight black shirts and cargo pants, both wearing sunglasses. Between them, at their forefront so they flanked him either side, walked a short, slick-haired man in a blue pinstripe suit, his brown leat...
2023-06-13 09:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s guests need no introduction.”
In homes and bars across America – in hospitals, on phones, in booths manned by security guards – fifty million screens sat tuned to the same image. Tonight’s episode had been a...
2023-06-11 00:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn his death chamber, Tse stood unobserved. The room was stark and windowless – circular and lined with white square tiles, devoid of feature, with an open space in the centre where once might have stood a one-man bed. Tse had requested to die standing, and the lack of restraints was not unusua...
2023-06-09 13:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostTen thousand miles apart, two men who had never met prepared to die.
For men of a similar age, facing similar fates, they had very little in common. The first, Tse Chi-li, was long, lean and wiry, a native son of Jiangxi with hair like black straw and a face riddled craterous with pockmarks...
2023-06-07 08:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe complete novella of The Mindtaker War, including never-before-seen epilogue.
2023-05-06 22:54:22 +0000 UTC View PostValued supporters, it is my pleasure to announce that the sequel for Superworld is now complete and will soon begin being released on Patreon and Royal Road.
In preparation for release I have revamped the various tiers available to Patreon subscribers, and encourage everyone to check ...
2023-05-03 21:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, hope you're all doing well.
As you may or may not know, Part 2 of Superworld has just been released in audiobook, ebook and paperback. Link below :)
And in the end, what did you accomplish?
2022-08-18 09:34:23 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Hope this post finds you all well and that you've been enjoying "The Mindtaker War" so far.
As you may have seen on Royal Road, Discord or otherwise around the place, "Superworld" Part 1 is now (or will soon be) available on Kindle, Amazon and Audible as an ebook, paperba...
2022-07-27 05:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhat will you say into the silence?
2022-07-27 05:22:48 +0000 UTC View Post