Golden sunlight illuminated everything as we stepped across the threshold of our house. The whole bottom floor of the house was one big open plan area, although different sections were raised or lowered to give the impression that it had separate rooms.
The entrance was all hardwood floorin...
2021-04-17 23:31:23 +0000 UTC View PostMy vision slowly swam back into focus and when it was clear enough to see properly, I gawked and turned in a slow circle.
We stood in an enormous circular room, with a massive dome high above us. The floor, ceiling, and dome were all made out of a white marble that appeared to have been sma...
2021-04-17 23:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post** God, I'm exhausted. Two days worth of waking hours put into these three chapters. I couldn't stop though, they needed to happen. Alia wouldn't let me stop. I hope you enjoy them. I might take a proper rest now.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz **
We logged out into a blank temporary VR spac...
2021-04-17 23:29:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Hold on, say again?” Roger asked, turning the captain’s chair around to face me.
I grinned and leaned casually against the doorway to the bridge. “Ship’s fixed.”
The bridge was much like our old one, only bigger and with more glass. Same crazy strong material as the last ...
2021-04-16 02:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn’t tell the others just how bad things had gotten for me. It seemed like it would just cause a lot of worry and not much else. Privately though, Cerri voiced concerns about damage to my code.
Well, she didn’t call it code, she called it my neurological architecture. Apparently th...
2021-04-15 05:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post** Posting this before my beta readers have had a chance to comb it for issues because I have no patience. Sorry if there's any funkiness! **
The first thing I became aware of when I began to regain consciousness was the sensation of warm breath tickling one of my ears. My senses...
2021-04-12 14:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post** Welcome to the fever dream. **
I followed the blueprints of the Turshen like they were a map, but unfortunately the map wasn’t entirely accurate. No, that wasn’t right. The map was accurate, but this ship was different to the standardised blueprints that we’d downloaded ...
2021-04-11 10:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post** Heya, just dropping a lil bit of Gauntlette, cos I felt like it. :D. Hope you enjoy! **
Eva wasn’t happy when I ditched the group to go and meet up with the people from the phone call, but my earlier promise was enough to keep her from getting too upset. I was kind of lookin...
2021-04-10 01:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post** Suddenly having so much fun with this story I swear. **
“I’m coming up on the hulk now,” I said into the main comms channel. “It’s all twisted up, looks like it was melted.”
“A lot of the wrecks look like that,” Cerri replied absently. “Must have been s...
2021-04-08 04:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post** This is the last one for this little drop, but Alia is taking over my brain and it's honestly hard to stop. I don't think I'll be able to write anything else until she gets what she wants. **
Rather than confront the terrifying and alluring sparks that were flying between us, ...
2021-04-06 06:46:12 +0000 UTC View Post** I am definitely taking a break. 100%. Don't @ me. **
Cerri and I leapt apart, both our faces instantly burning with fire. Gloria stood in the doorway, glancing warily between the two of us.
“We’re fine,” Cerri said, voice as tense as the steel cable on a wrecking b...
2021-04-06 06:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post** Gosh. I really like this story. **
It took us two weeks to get the new ship back into working order, which was actually a hell of a lot less time than I had been expecting. The speed of the whole operation was almost entirely down to the engineering of the long dead aliens who...
2021-04-06 06:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post** The difference between taking a break and working is that there isn't a deadline :3. Enjoy the chapter! **
Cerri and I wandered into the new makeshift galley in a combined fit of giggles. Getting dressed had been the most awkward experience of both our lives, with the both of ...
2021-04-03 02:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post** I binky where I please. Enjoy the chappies, I'll see you in like <strike>two days when I get excited and write a whole new story</strike> a week or two. **
“W-what happened?” Cerri shouted, bolting upright and waking me up in the process. My head spun like a forgo...
In the end we were able to get everything off the Turshen in time, save for stuff that was bolted down. Hell, even the entertainment systems made it over. Watching our old ship slide off into the black was a slightly depressing sight, made all the more worrying by the way it quickly imploded.
... 2021-03-31 03:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post** So I don't have to think about writing for a bit and because I want to lob a literature grenade into the room, here have three chapters. **
The rush to move everything over was frantic and stressful. We ended up just tying a bunch of crates to a line and then hurling them out ...
2021-03-31 03:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post** Taking a break for a little while, maybe a week or two. Then I'll get back to trouble again :). There might be a Digital Galaxies chapter or two in that time but nothing planned. You know how I am. **
I was lying on my bed a few days later when a call came in, surprising me be...
2021-03-30 00:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post"I wonder how things are going back in CORA," I mused without opening my eyes.
Dawn and I were spread out across one of the sofas in the upstairs living area, our limbs a tangle and our hearts full. We’d renamed this ‘room’ the Den, and it was smaller than the downstairs one and had a...
2021-03-28 00:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post** How is everyone? Are we enjoying the trouble chapters? **
“A few hundred years ago and arcologies like these would have been branded as the wistful daydream of some architect with too much imagination,” Dawn commented as the lift rose up through the floors.
“Not ha...
2021-03-26 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post** Don't mind me, just getting to know my characters again. I intend to write a hell of a lot of trouble in the near future. **
Dawn had just been trying to win an argument, but as we kissed each other on my bed, I felt my heart begin to ache. My Dawn. My lovely, gorgeous, amazin...
2021-03-24 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post** Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone :3. I hope everyone is doing okay and life isn't being a total dick. **
“It’s mostly been the bots doing all the work,” Dad said with a sheepish grin. “I’m far too stupid to do this work. I keep their toolmechs in good shap...
2021-03-22 00:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostMay sat in my lap, both of us scarfing cookies that Mum had made while Dawn pored over the contracts, looking for anything that might fuck us over.
“I like cookies,” May stated decisively. “Especially Mum’s ones.”
“Same,” I mumbled around a mouthful.
Mum had been d...
2021-03-20 00:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post** Going to try to do a big batch of Trouble chapters because I'm feeling motivated after I finished Pellan off properly. Also it's my birthday and it feels appropriate to start trouble again on my bday. Also also Digital Galaxies, but that's always running slowly in the background. Thanks everyo...
2021-03-18 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post** That's all of Ryn for now, although I'll returning again soon. Going to spam out some trouble chapters for a while though. Oh and some DG obviously. Not sure, whatever the schedule says in the discord announcement channel xD. **
Catherine
I wandered into...
2021-03-16 00:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostCatherine
Ryn was in my grove for once! We were both sitting cross legged on the grass of my island as the ocean breeze tugged gently at our hair and leaves. Yeah, since we were alone and there were no pesky humans to stare at us, we’d gone plant mode.
My m...
2021-03-14 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post** Originally I was going to hold off on posting this chapter for a few days after finishing it, but I'm not an evil author so I'm posting it right now instead. Hope you enjoy it, sorry about the cliff last time xD **
“What was that?” I asked in a small, terrified voice once ...
2021-03-12 09:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post** Surprise! But actually tho weow. That semi-break I just took for a few months has really rekindled my interest in writing, especially my already established stories. Of course, I did uh... start another project so yeah. Shhhh. It's on my patreon if you want to see it, just like all my other WI...
2021-03-12 00:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post** This scheduling a chapter every two days thing is really nice and chill for me. No anxiety about not posting something in a while. Wooooooo. Hope you are all liking it too! **
The interior of the Turshen II, as we were calling it, wasn’t quite so spooky now that we knew it w...
2021-03-10 00:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post** So. Yeah. I hope that ending was better than the one I slapped on the end a year ago. I know that the switch from old stuff to new stuff is probably a bit jarring. I'm a different person now, a better writer and yeah... just better in general. Unfortunately, one of the casualties of the inexor...
2021-03-08 00:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostFinding Juliet’s address wasn’t hard, I just had to look up the location of the last house party she’d thrown on facebook. It was honestly terrifying how little privacy we had these days. Even ten years ago in Nia’s time you’d have been able to disconnect if you really wanted to. Nowada...
2021-03-06 00:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post