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Wordsworth – Chapter 15 – Interlude: Storyteller

A world was burning.

The Thinker and the Warrior walked across it in all its myriad permutations. They had taken everything they could from it and the civilization that had populated it. A few shards had been further optimized, and the Thinker was pondering on new technology repo...

April 18th to 24th Schedule

Well, I’m afraid it’s no news that I messed up last week’s schedule, is it? Let me do a bit of postmortem and see how much I messed up.

I was a bit tired after the writing marathon that had me finish Deranged Lesbian and its epilogue and the next chapter of Self Insert of t...

All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! – Zaimokuza Gaiden – Chapter 17

The coming of the day is heralded not by the tolling of church bells (with or without a dark secret), but by the back of a hand slamming down on my nose.

I manage not to yell out in panic by the very effective and expedient method of blinking in groggy confusion (truly, a masterf...

Self Insert of the Dead – Chapter 3 – The Lucky Pervert Should Not Be the One Being Peeked On

Predictably, after Ms. Marikawa finally vacated the bath, the girls decided it was only right for them to hog it for as long as they pleased, which ended up with me deciding that Hirano may as well take his turn in peace before I got to finally wash the grime of the day (the disturbing...

All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 34 – Haruno Doesn’t Go on Dates 2

As it turns out, Iroha is the touchy-feely type.

Which means that, as soon as we exit the restaurant (and I pay the bill a still very pleasantly scandalized waitress presents me), she wraps herself around my right arm like a slender, curvy koala that I’m sure some otaku would b...

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming

My father’s all right.

Well, now that that bit of suspense is out of the way, let me elaborate: I just got back from the hospital, where, after some very stressful hours, it turned out that the donor’s lungs were damaged and so the operation didn’t go through—we’re just back to wa...

Delays, delays everywhere

So, I guess you may have noticed I've been even more scatter-brained than usual. This was due to my father undergoing the last clinical trials before getting on the lung transplant's list. Once he got finally in, we were told we could wait up to two years for a viable donor to appear.

As it...

Wake-up Call – Chapter 35

Finally, after what feels like a night far too packed with emotions, events, and parental figures being insufferably stubborn, I’m back at my apartment.

My peaceful apartment. The one place in the world I’ve shaped to my personal preferences and needs to be both safe and soot...

Wordsworth – Chapter 14

Reading is as sensual as it can be mental.

Opening an old book, the smell of aged paper and ink surrounding you, your fingers tracing the grooves in smooth leather, your eyes following the shapes of beautiful letters as meaning unfolds inside you… It can be intimate. Special. 2022-04-12 08:22:29 +0000 UTC View Post

April 11th to 17th Schedule and Poll Results

It turns out the advantage of posting a weekly schedule in advance it’s that it lets me see just how much I messed up the whole thing… So join me in dissecting what went wrong and just by how much!

I managed to write Wordsworth as planned on Monday, but Tuesday I had a family thing that...

An End, Some Means, and a Deranged Lesbian – Epilogue – The Girl Who Didn’t Die

I’ve never been to a love hotel in my entire life.

“Relax, Komaki!” the girl—Kirika says as she slaps my shoulder with entirely too much familiarity. “It’s not like Oriko’s gonna eat you! Well, she may, but you know, in the fun way!”

My che...

Self Insert of the Dead – Chapter 2 – The Bath Fanservice Episode Should Not Be in First Person POV

Kouta Hirano is, apparently, in Heaven.

“This—this… This is a Springfield Armory Super Match M1A! Modified with a laser sight and a scope; it even has a bayonet attachment! And that’s an Ithaca M37! Modified with a dot sight! One of the most reliable shotguns in the world...

An End, Some Means, and a Deranged Lesbian – Chapter 3

She doesn’t smell like the sea.

Kirika’s naked beneath the sheets, her body warm next to mine, and I can’t fall back to sleep, not while my mind is stuck on why it’s important that she doesn’t smell like…

Oh. Right. Yesterday.

I feel my cheeks heat up as I remember o...

All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 33 – Haruno Doesn’t Go on Dates 1

I’m in a small Italian restaurant, out of the way so it offers some privacy from people walking by, yet with a friendly atmosphere that makes guests feel welcome even if most tables are currently empty. The waitress uniform is a simple, orange-checkered dress with a frilly white apro...

Wake-up Call – Chapter 34

Wake-up Call – Chapter 34

“You should’ve called me,” Colin growls over the phone.

“Well, I know that now, but nothing indicated I should’ve prepared for an unknown parahuman to make her debut right in the middle of my brawl against the Merchants,�...

Wordsworth – Chapter 13

Once, there was a warrior god.

His name was Ares, and he was scum, derided. He cheated with another god’s wife, terrorized those weaker than him, and fled when wounded by a mere mortal. He was god of war, but far from its master.

Because there was another, a goddess, who ...

April 4th to 10th Schedule

One of the things that was pointed out in the recent polls was that maybe I should try to communicate with you all rather than keep dropping chapters like a writing machine devoid of a soul and its own life—I mean, like somebody who knows what they’re doing.

Truth be told, I don’t wor...

All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! – Zaimokuza Gaiden – Chapter 16 – A Girl in Love

I… I don’t know what to do.

It’s a sensation I’ve become used to over the past few years, ever since I started trying to live by some rules that only made sense because I thought they should, ever since I stopped being… myself, I guess.

But… that’s not the cas...

April's Plot Bunnies Poll

All right, the following is a list of ideas that have been gnawing at my brain for months. It's not even a comprehensive list.

Help...

I mean! Please let me know which one of them I should exorcise over this month. The damn things keep breeding.

Self Insert of the Dead – Chapter 1 – My Overpowered Cheat Is Crap (As I Expected)

Disclaimer: So that this story fits inside of Patreon’s Community Guidelines, it’s been revised so that it occurs in an AU where all the characters are legal adults. This includes the characters not involved in sexual events. Everybody is an adult, without a single e...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Part 3: Focus

In the last installment of me pouring words on you all without rhyme or reason, I said that, when I started this whole thing, I never expected to be managing more than ten stories at once.

… Quite a few more than ten.

That was a mix of both pessimism and optimism at once. I really c...

Wordsworth – Chapter 12 – Colors 5

The docks are burning.

“Just call it in, Ems. That’s Lung on a rampage; there’s nothing you can do.”

Sophia’s voice comes from behind me, terse and severe, but far softer than it was mere moments ago. Before we heard the explosion.

I feel… something. I’m still not ...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Part 2:The Polls

To be completely honest, the polls have been a bit of a headache since the beginning, and that’s entirely my own fault.

When I set this whole thing up, I just had started regularly posting Wake-up Call and All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! on a weekly basis. It was something new to me, as...

All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! – Zaimokuza Gaiden – Chapter 15

Rituals. I like rituals.

I mean, of course, there are the everyday kind of rituals that make it so there’s some kind of… order, I guess? No, it’s not that, more like certainty. That, you know, the day at school may have been shit, and somebody may have mouthed off a bit mor...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Part 1: Incentives and perks

All right, do you remember when, near the end of February, I told you all I would be polling you relentlessly throughout March? My, how does time fly…

The thing is, I really need to make some changes around here, but I would like to get your input on them for the dual reasons of me being ...

Wordsworth – Chapter 11

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”

It is an old question. The words fall from lips wise in magic and poison, lips that should know better than to ask, and the mirror listens.

The mirror only shows another image, though. Shows the one who aske...

An End, Some Means, and a Deranged Lesbian – Chapter 2

I wake up feeling better than I have in months, then I turn to the side and see why.

I spend far more than I would like to admit just watching her sleep, that dumb grin of hers apparent even as she unconsciously gropes my breast in a way that is more amusing than enticing.

Then I sile...

Ginosko – Chapter 2 – Lawrence

I watch myself glide through the defenses of a

Of Sisters and Shadows – Chapter 6

This is bullshit.

Oh, sure, I get a second trigger which turns my shield into a very versatile, ridiculously lethal weapon—I just need to face myself in a duel to the death to get it. No biggie.

Armsmaster, though…

“Colin, would you stop that?” 2022-03-15 15:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post