Darkness so encompassing, you didn't know if you were in a large room or a tiny one.
Choose a bond to work with.
Adric's primal bond was at the tip of Harmony’s tongue with that same compulsion to answer that had made h...
2025-09-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHa’zel Ri
A dog and their bones. Ha’zel Ri’s humanoid form lounged on this throne of skulls. His bushy dog tail and white ears could have him easily mistaken for a beast kin. Across the room, scenes played out for each competitor, scrys linked to them, limited in that...
2025-09-24 14:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostToday's post will be skipped because I've had covid the past few days and it has turned my brain to mush. Sorry about the delay.
2025-09-22 14:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostWincing, Harmony stumbled into the arena lounge. It’s a thinner crowd celebrating passing the next round. Rather than counting, she checked the number on the door to the social break lounge before it disappeared. Seventeen. This time, she didn’t hesitate when grabbin...
2025-09-20 02:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostNote- We are now 10 glimpses ahead or the Royal Road version. I'll be switching to one flash fiction every Wednesday now.
Additional Note - for the week of October 20th I'll be on a family trip to Paris France. If anyone wants to suggest ideas of what I could do, let me know. I'm unsure...
2025-09-18 00:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony didn’t consider herself a violent person, but sometimes the behaviors certain people brought that mindset out in her. This moment was a present created by Rose’s attitude. In a better mood, without the stresses of an absent pet, a troubled agent, and a pissy ...
2025-09-15 14:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony spat out the blood pooling in her mouth. The wound wasn’t worth the effort to use [Mend] on, and that skill wouldn’t do anything to help the ringing in her ears. Because, of course, the doorway wouldn’t lead straight to a destination, two hours of pushing th...
2025-09-12 14:03:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe first one should fix a continuity error. Takes place before the Dungeon meet.
Grohl 15.5/17 {takes place before 16}
Grohl silently tapped his fingers to the sounds in the room. Threnody, her words, weren’t important; she had a voice like a metal b...
2025-09-11 00:58:45 +0000 UTC View PostThey obeyed. There was grumbling, but they obeyed. With a little encouragement. Harmony rode Hyacinth as he loomed over anyone who looked like they were dragging on. “If the other tribes beat us there, I’m blaming you.” – “We don’t know what they'll th...
2025-09-08 23:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony missed the ease of equipping Night as a full piece of armor instead of these adhered-on plates that required fiddling with extra bits to protect her and cover all the bare skin. At least, after feeding the pair-bonded armor, the plates had a more metallic...
2025-09-06 01:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostBrix- 15
Brix, in his official capacity, observed Billups making a fool out of himself.
“How does it feel to bring shame to your kingdom by being one of the first two eliminated in the Ascendant Games?” Asked a Local reporter, not even evol...
2025-09-03 14:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You did it!” Jenny’s excitement at the now dingy-looking bits of metal was overenthusiastic.
Taking one of the bits, Harmony squeezed the metal, flattening it by about half. It wasn’t soft, but she could squish it. “You sure this will be usable?...
2025-09-01 15:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a lot of willpower not to abuse her position to cut in line at the growth chamber to see what, if anything, had changed. People, pets, and even Hyacinth put their names down to try out the analysis chamber. So, she simply added her name back to the growing list a...
2025-08-29 23:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostAstel- 13
The last-moment decision to return to the Hazeldown Coodly Manor rather than taking up residence in one of the few acceptable hotels in Hazeldown had turned into Astel’s personal nightmare. The moment they’d left, pests had moved in. Gnomes in the ga...
2025-08-27 23:15:14 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony’s eyes adjusted to a line of entrants, waiting for their turn to enter the chamber.
“You were there longer than Loap. I’ll have to recalculate the number of uses a day once I get more examples to average out.” Gareth half said to himself as the nex...
2025-08-25 23:26:51 +0000 UTC View PostA doorway collapsed inward, opening up one of the mysterious buildings that was close to the obelisk. Most everyone was a little stunned. By virtue of their teleport location, Tyler and his Loap were two of the closest. The beast kin hopped right inside. “Wait!” Tyl...
2025-08-22 17:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostDustine- 11
“I heard you got hag duty, Dusty. I wouldn’t trade a week's worth of easy shifts for your spot.” Tess joked as she strapped on her latest contraption with the help of her spiders.
Dustine shook her head. Not a political bone in that girl’s body. Ma...
2025-08-20 17:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony progressed room after room.
Chronostasis and [Recall] worked in tandem to align five clocks to strike thirteen simultaneously, opening the way. Each had a funny click when set to that unusual number.
The next room took timing without an ...
2025-08-18 16:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was circumventing the rules of the Ascendant Games, or Haz’el Ri was involved with keeping her pet away. Trusting Hyacinth to keep watch, Harmony dove into her soul space and approached her primal bond with Adric. With her personal stat of connections sealed,...
2025-08-15 15:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostHoop - 9
“Kweh.”
“Hush, you.” Hoop patted the back of his yellow bird. Raised the beast since it was the runt of the hatchery, and the name, Big, had been assigned ironically. Now he towered above many of his kind and was the pride of the blue faction. Probabl...
2025-08-13 16:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostNow they were eighteen.
Erin, who wandered in for a bowl of soup with nary a word to anyone before leaving, had been the low-hanging fruit. The recluse was already on the chopping block.
...
2025-08-11 22:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post[ Sorry for the delay, camping and had to complete the Oregon writing fellowship grant yesterday... not sure the 25 pages of YA Superhero fiction will entice them, but you have to take the shot. ]
Chapter Forty
Gareth explained as they walked. The man wasn’t jus...
2025-08-09 15:34:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Flows- 7
Grohl slowly played a funeral march on his drums in the corner. He made it to five minutes and twelve seconds, a new record, when the cushion collided with him.
“Broken strings, it’s your fault we...
2025-08-06 14:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post.
“I don’t know what happened. My memory still has blank spots from her attack.” Harmony answered as they collected all the loot. Theories ranged from frightening in that she might have such a suicidal skill in her chest to something extra...
2025-08-04 16:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostNope.
Harmony stepped forward to end this. Her versions danced back, laughing as they did. The pieces clinked into place for their transformation to be complete, even their clothes and armor morphed out, extruding from their skin. If this lasted longer, th...
2025-08-01 17:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostTess-5
Exosuit ThreeC blended in nearly perfectly with House White's new uniforms. Three layers to keep the illusion. One underneath the uniform, buckled to her skin. The second was sewn into the uniform with the help of Steven. Third, the only visible outside aspect...
2025-07-30 16:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Tyler asked as he climbed over the black shifting mound of spider corpses to get to the other side.
“Imagine needing to eat spider and root soup for the rest of the competition. We’ll all be begging to be voted o...
2025-07-28 17:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostHarmony took out her frustration on the wall of white webbing that now dominated the forest she’d passed through on the way to camp. [Manipulate Dead] after all of the frustrations of being sealed finally found purchase in the spider’s unliving creation withou...
2025-07-25 16:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostSteven-3
New servants meant new uniforms. With the delivery of fabric, needles, and thread, Steven could begin fittings. To think that getting emasculated at the Harvest of Talents ended up being the start of one of the most interesting and potentially profitable out...
2025-07-23 16:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean you lost the scent?”
Her familiar pointed out she'd also lost the trail of undead energy under the murky water first.
Too confident to start. Experience had been in their favor, but tracking fully skilled people an...
2025-07-21 15:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post