An hour. She sat here and argued for an hour. Mike felt exhausted. That had been in the morning, and now it was late afternoon, and he stillfelt exhausted. He propped the door open, letting the warm afternoon air enter the stuff bookstore, while he got ready to close up.
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2023-06-29 00:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe baseball hit the target. It wasn’t hard, since I had a bug on the ball and on the target, and I had bugs on my own body. So now I’d be working on little throwing weapons, from flash bombs to actual throwing daggers—although I didn’t expect to use those, unless it was literally l...
2023-06-27 19:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhich is to say, ripped out the new update, put in the old version, had to recover all my files...
Long story short, we're back on track and the next chapter should get out tomorrow.
Also, while I like Scrivener, I am very, very annoyed at LIterature and Latte. Breaki...
2023-06-26 06:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostOh hey! Look, it's an original! Don't worry, Weaver's Web is still continuing, but I'm also gonna be releasing this story here.
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One nice thing about a book store—it doesn’t open early. Mike shrugged as he flipped the sign from CLOSED to OPEN....
2023-06-24 03:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere will probably be another chapter soon--this one is short, mainly because I can't find a good way to link it to the next one.
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The Undersiders were rampaging through the lot, causing an ever-growing amount of chaos. Some men had pulled out guns, but more wer...
2023-06-20 23:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Boss, I don’t understand. You want us to take on the Empire, after we lost Grue to Lung?”
“Tattletale, I have assurances that there will be no capes at this site. Only normal soldiers.”
Confident. Believes he has things under—Lisa got her power back under control...
2023-06-16 06:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostSlightly late--getting redy for school was a bit more difficult than we'd expected.
Getting ready took a while. I stayed up late that night working on my cameras, and something else—a tracker. It turned out that burner phones couldn’t be tracked—unless you paid for it...
2023-06-12 08:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let everyone know the Gdaughters summer school is starting on monday.
Oh Lord, yes!
the Gdaughter loves school and has been getting up at 5AM to ask use old folks to get ready, for every day this week. That's why there have been a few delays, and the next chapter will drop tom...
2023-06-10 05:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostI ached as I got on the bus. All of me. I had all the aches.
I’d studied, working on books on unarmed fighting, how to do it, reading the instructions… and then went in the backyard and started practicing. I’d done it before, working with my quarterstaff and escrima sticks, but this t...
2023-06-05 07:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow is my god daughters graduation from sixth grade and I must be up, so the next chapter may be tomorrow night or Friday morning.
But regardless, for the next two days plans are in fluctuation. Hopefully, I'll have one by tomorrow night, but Friday might be the ...
2023-06-01 06:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostI had bought two more monitors from Lords Market. Both of them damaged, but not irrecoverably.
One had a damaged HDMI port, and the other had some corroded wires. Nothing I couldn’t fix.
Now, at least.
I’d been working with my ability to read more than one thing, to hear mor...
2023-05-29 04:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post(this is the script for a youtube presentation, so it's a bit rough, but it's hints of things to come in my non-fiction work).
Well, here you are. You saw the “doomsday” library heading and got interested. I thank you. But before we talk about the nitty-gritty of our doomsday box ...
2023-05-26 21:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostWade Green snarled at the paperwork in front of him. He’d let those three idiots go out, because they’d make good disposable punks. The Empire didn’t take anyone who came in the door, and they’d last five seconds in front of Hookwolf, were too dumb for Krieg or Victor, and talked too much...
2023-05-25 03:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostContent warning for racism.
Sitting in class, I was listening to Mr. Gladly’s lecture. We had fewer group projects, more individual tests. I was taking advantage of it to do something else—listen to four conversations at once. I’d decided to try my stunt with reading books with my dir...
2023-05-21 07:18:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm holding to my promise, because as far as i'm concerned it's not tomorrow until the sun comes up.
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When I got up the next morning, my mind was literally buzzing with potential. I’d managed to quickly rig up a way to turn the pages of my book, and while I couldnâ€...
2023-05-17 07:30:20 +0000 UTC View PostI was planning on a new chapter yesterday, but the roomie I had to take to the ER last week is having some more problems, so there have been some delays. Hopefully it will be out tonight, or by tomorrow at the latest.
2023-05-16 02:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Tattletale,” the unwelcome voice was clear over the phone.
“Yeah, boss?” Distracted. Considers this a minor issue.
“You read the file on Squealer. What do you think about Orb Weaver.”
Lisa shook her head. “I don’t have a lot of information on it, ...
2023-05-11 22:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm at the hospital with a friend. Nohting major, but he needed a ride. The next interlude for Orb Weaver will thus be tomorrow morning. Or after noon. But definitely tomorrow.
Getting ready to talk to Mush during his drills was going to be difficult. I’d set up several listening devices, my cheap walkie-talkies, in the place, but in all honesty, I’d have to make certain Much didn’t move too far away, or I’d lose my ability to hear him.
I wasn’t on the p...
2023-05-09 01:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Not quite there yet, I'm going to have to go into photoshop and add some more work to it, the buildings are supposed to be covered with vines and such. But for a first attempt, looking down a spooky street--not entirely bad.
The problem of working with Mush was that I couldn’t assume he was stupid. If he noticed I was only meeting him at night, never talking to him save by a creepy voice, he might start drawing conclusions I didn’t like. He might decide to strike out on his own again.
And given his previous...
2023-05-05 01:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostRough preview of the first pages of my new original story--full first chapter should be up this week.
Once, the 91 freeway seemed like a never-ending parking lot,Maria thought as she zipped down the freeway, her jeep bouncing whenever she hit a pothole or chunk of fragments. ...
2023-05-03 05:25:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a while since I got something original, and this is going to be the start of a new story, Aether Wars, set on an earth invaded by strange creatures. Now, Just to let people know how this is going to go. It will, at the very minimum, have one chapter a week, with the patron getting it 3 ...
2023-05-02 23:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostNote this interlude is taking place while Orb Wever is speaking with Squealer.
Mush sat down on the couch, bags of garbage around him. It was good to be armed. He lit up and turned the TV on, the flickering screen showing the most recent episode of “What Happened To Tommy!” a sitc...
2023-05-01 09:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostHow did pressure cookers and steam engines relate to each other? Find out here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleCoEcGWtc&t=170s
2023-04-29 01:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs the rest of the week passed, I spent time at Winslow, watching. Some of the most arrogant students weren’t so arrogant anymore.
More rumors were swirling around our new administrator. Oni Lee had shown up and he’d kicked him down the stairs. He’d killed Night and Fog.
H...
2023-04-28 02:17:00 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t certain if I was more annoyed that I was taking time out of my schedule to come to a tutoring meeting, or if the only reason someone was doing their job was because I’d been jammed into a locker.
Or the fact that Arcadia was so damned cleancompared to my school. The st...
2023-04-23 01:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post“I haven’t heard of any parahuman with those powers.” Kaiser glanced at Brad. “Or let me rephrase, any parahuman who can make spooky noises.”
Brad didn’t rise to the bait. “Anyone talking like that, while we’re all there, has a reason to not be afraid. I figured you wouldnâ€...
2023-04-20 07:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostResearching the Merchants was difficult. There were a thousand rumors. Skidmark and Squealer worked for the E88, they worked for Lung, they were actually the secret rulers of the bay.
That one, I could ignore.
There were arrest reports, and huh…
Skidmark and Squealer’s real ...
2023-04-17 08:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I arrived at Winslow on Monday, I had no idea what was waiting for me. Just that there was a battered-looking VW Bug in the principal’s space. Inside, we were called into a schoolwide assembly, and one of the…
He might have been handsome at one point, but his face was marred by dee...
2023-04-15 01:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post