Chapter 2.11: The Search
I slept for fourteen hours that night. I still awoke with a headache, because apparently the universe has a cruel sense of irony, but it turns out that’s just what happens when you go fourteen hours without drinking any water.
A bit of hydration later and I ...
2023-10-04 19:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.10: It Doesn’t Go Away
It was technically morning by the time my work began in earnest. The faintest glimmer of predawn light yet to breach the canopy as I sat crosslegged in Lucy’s clearing. The gloom proved little help.
I didn’t waste time, preferring to launch direc...
2023-09-28 21:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.9: New Objectives
“Xavier, what in the ever-loving fuck was that?”
I froze. My brows shot up in surprise, less at the anger in Charlotte’s voice than the fact she’d actually cursed.
“It was a good deal,” Xavier said as if it were the most ...
2023-09-12 21:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post[Hey everyone. I-um... originally intended to be publishing book two right around now. That obviously hasn't happened. Since January really I've been struggling a lot with keeping up my routine, and my productive has suffered for it severely. I'm sorry. I wish I had ...
2023-09-11 22:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.7: Kindred Spirits
“Where did you find it?”
“About three hours northwest of here,” I answered Charlotte’s question. “Some half dozen ebonleafs are just withering away, like they’re eating their life-force directly.”
I’d found Charlotte and Xavier sitt...
2023-08-01 19:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.6: I’m Worried About Cal
Hope is the first real casualty of sleep deprivation.
People talk of dwindling energy, of drifting through the days as little more than a specter, a ghost that haunts the abandoned wreck of the person you used to be, but that all comes later, after...
2023-06-29 20:07:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.5: Ilirian
“I got it!” Charlotte’s cry echoed across the jungle floor as she darted in to meet the argentivore’s charge. Her rapier flashed through the air as she parried its advance, sending the quadruped hurtling off to the side. With a crash the silver plate on its fore...
2023-06-25 19:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.4: The Cracks in the Bureaucracy
Three weeks passed in the comfortable haze of routine, of training and meditating and studying and training some more. I managed, for the first time, to convert dark qi to light faster than Charlotte could absorb it, but the moment Xavier walked in...
2023-05-22 19:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.3: The Waiting
I let my wooden practice sword fall to the floor as I rubbed the spot where Xavier’s axe had struck my chest. “That’s match to you.”
Xavier grinned and withdrew his weapon, offering a hand in its place. “Well fought.”
I shook it. “I could b...
2023-05-09 20:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.2: Holding Pattern
“A little to the left… there. Perfect.”
I slid my palm across the poster, pressing the adhesive into the wall. A pale tendril of qi joined me, guiding an air bubble down and out, leaving the familiar image perfectly flat and centered. I took a step b...
2023-05-03 21:11:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2.1: Beneath an Ebon Canopy
Micaiah Ferendin scrunched her nose against the smell as the cultivators in front of her butchered their kills. The entire process bothered her. She watched them plunge their knives into dead flesh, pull back tough skin coated in matted, bloodstained fur,...
2023-04-29 16:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR at the end
Hey everyone,
This post is long overdue and probably no great surprise to any of you. Missed deadline after missed deadline month in and month out isn't how I wanted this story to go. In truth, I've always been horrible at splitting focus between multiple ...
2023-04-28 17:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! I'm super excited to announce that Book 1 of The Stargazer's War is available now on amazon. As always, I'd like to ask all of you who've had a chance to read the story to head over and leave a rating or revie...
2023-04-01 19:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: When it Rains
(Deleted this on accident. Just reposting.)
Edmund’s gear never got a chance to dry.
Raindrops pelted his body as he emerged from the darkness between levels, a gentle drizzle that blotted out the false sky above. It seeped through the gap...
2023-04-01 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Through Biting Thorns
Edmund barely caught a glimpse of blue sky and false sunlight before a familiar voice pulled his attention away.
“Wait a minute. I know that oppressive heat.” Lucius Durne spun on his heel to face the entrance. “Edmund!”
Edmund blinked, ...
2023-03-01 20:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post[Hey everyone, I'm really sorry this is so late. I had a bit of a crisis of motivation coming off of the high of finishing The Stargazer's War 1 that made it really hard to focus on the story that seems to be only declining in popularity. The last thing I expected was the outflow of m...
2023-02-17 20:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogues
Maria only made it to her feet as she felt the whirr of thrusters quake the floors beneath her. Her hands shook as she moved to the window, pressed her face up to the glass to watch the soulship shrink into nothingness in starry sky.
She kept her eyes fixed upon that spot, a...
2023-01-20 00:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: Took You Long Enough
Maria couldn’t keep the smile from her face. She had him. She had him. She almost wished she’d taken a picture of the looks on the would-be fugitives’ faces as she’d emerged from her hiding place. It would’ve made a wonderful decoration fo...
2023-01-18 23:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: A Penchant for Shadows
[Man, if you thought that earlier cliff was bad...]
There’s a hideous temptation the nothingness offers to those in pain.
Escape is the wrong word. There is no escape. There’s only a deadening, a sense that for now, if only for now...
2023-01-12 23:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: Nick
I hope after all the ice cream adventures and the scathing quips and the grand mysteries, after all the close calls and the glorious victory, after how, for so long now, everything has turned out okay, you haven’t forgotten what kind of story this is.
I haven’t. 2023-01-11 00:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 32: Bao Long
[Cliff ahead. Proceed with caution.]
Normally, this would be the part where I tell you I tossed and turned throughout the night, plagued by restlessness and dreams of failure in the trials to come. Either that or visited by some mysterious portent I’d neit...
2023-01-07 00:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Time’s Up
“I still can’t believe Xavier beat me to copper,” I muttered to myself as I stacked a handful of apple seeds with a pair of tweezers.
“How are you still on that?” Nick asked without looking up from his genetic resequencing tool. “It’s been two wee...
2023-01-04 21:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: When it Rains
[And in the greatest plot twist since the Sixth Sense, I actually have this month's chapter a day early! Enjoy!]
Edmund’s gear never got a chance to dry.
Raindrops pelted his body as he emerged from the darkness between levels, a gentle drizz...
2022-12-31 23:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: You Again
[Quick note: This chapter directly follows up on events from a chapter I intend to add but haven’t written yet. All you really need to know is that shortly after the void horde attack, Arthur takes Cal out for drinks. There, two goons accost Arthur for information on...
2022-12-18 20:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Trying it Out
I slammed my head into the sitting area table. The reinforced resin against my forehead made a rather satisfying thud, even as I let out a groan. “It’s not working.”
“Then try again,” Charlotte repeated for the umpteenth time. “You know h...
2022-12-06 00:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post[This is the part where I apologize for the del
2022-12-04 00:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful people!
I come to you out of schedule with some exciting news: Into the Darkness, book 1 of Dungeon Devotee, is now available on amazon!
As promised, the story isn't coming to Kindle Unlimited, so...
2022-11-26 02:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Tin
I bounded across the rooftops of Fyrion, leaping over peaks and valleys in the contiguous mass of metal that separated the city from the vacuum beyond. The dwarf planet’s gravity had taken more than a little getting used to, but now months in to my vac-welding work, I need...
2022-11-23 23:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Back to Work
I wish I had an interesting story to tell about clearing my brain meridian. After all that excitement, it feels wrong to just open my final meridian without a hitch, doesn’t it? Anticlimactic, even.
Sometimes life doesn’t make for interesting stories thoug...
2022-11-16 00:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Recovery
“Cadet Rex? Cadet Rex, can you hear me?”
My eyes blinked open to a bright light shining into them. I groaned.
“I’ll take that as a yes.”
The light flicked off and vision slowly clarified to reveal a sparsely adorned hospital room complete wit...
2022-11-12 00:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post