BlueShear

Chapter 103

Minutes Earlier:

It was time to commence with Jun’s absolutely foil proof, never going to fail, sure to satisfy or your money back guaranteed, eight step, two part plan to put an end to the sadistic cephalopod scream Queen’s uninterrupted reign of tyranny. This time? Fo...

Chapter 102

Nialla released a river of writhing tentacles at the boy, ignoring as she did so the fire of energy rifles that periodically scorched her skin. She’d fallen into a steady rhythm by this point. Almost a form of meditation, in a way. In fact, in that moment her minds were so at peace that, were t...

Chapter 101

Jun stared down at his own face reflected in the opaque pond. In this place, a product of his dissociating mind, he’d figured it could be whatever he wanted it to be. And so he’d turned the vast nothingness surrounding him on all sides, into a vast nothingness with a tranquil pond for him to ...

Chapter 100

It was quite possibly the worst day of his life. Made all the worse for the fact that it didn’t seem to be ending anytime soon. A careening carousel of casual cruelty that wouldn’t let him off for the life or death of him—the latter seeming preferable at that very moment, so long as it was ...

Chapter 99

An excerpt from: “A Mad Man’s Repository: A Conceptual Compendium on the Unreasonableness of the Universe.”

I thought I should include a few short pages on the world trials—their quirks, how they operate, etc—if only to help keep the inane rules and guide...

Chapter 98

The instant they opened fire, the world as she knew it slowed down to a crawl. It was no technique of hers. In fact it wasn’t even a particularly difficult thing to do. With her high mind, the greatest of all her attributes, a thought was all it took to overclock her mental cognition—highligh...

Chapter 97

“So, let me just see if I’m understanding this correctly. If she runs away instead of choosing to fight, and if she then applies one of your malicious mantras before reading the fine print, and if, on top of all of that, the very first thing she d...

Chapter 96

Primer looked out over the burning settlement from his sky-high vantage, the light of torched homes reflecting in his eyes. The chorus of screams reached him like livestock dragged kicking and squealing to the slaughter. 

It was such a shame they’d forced his hand, he thought—his s...

Chapter 95

Nialla exited into a spirit dry hole in the ground overgrown with rampant weeds and algae. 

She wasted no time in pouring her spirit into its new bodies, anxious to confirm the extent of the damage. There was a disorienting moment in which she occupied two bodies simultaneously, before...

Chapter 94

While she was pondering her options, four more burning lines of pain left bright red streaks across her skin. And while none of them were in any way lethal—in fact all they really managed to do was to kindle her ire—they were, unfortunately, not trivial enough for her to simply ignore outrigh...

Chapter 93

From out of the corner of his eye, Jun caught the telltale flash of ruby red. And although he made sure not to draw attention to it, he just couldn’t help, nor seem to get rid of, a lopsided, self satisfied grin.

Took you long enough.

BANG!

E...

Chapter 92

Nialla looked on in blank stupefaction as explosions rocked the bulk of her wayward offspring. What little of them remained after that initial salvo anyway. Concussive slaps of blooming silver decimating their ranks in very short order—each violent eruption of concussive force touching upon the...

Chapter 91

A persistent breeze tugs at his tattered clothes, pulling free loose strands of hair from his blood matted scalp. The orange sky of late evening a subtle backdrop. The briefest flash of color or wisp of fiery cloud only periodically glimpsed past the oncoming tide of liquid darkness. The hoard se...

Chapter 90

A salty ocean breeze carries with it the rhythmic crashing of waves and the raucous quarreling of seagulls. Transfixed by the constant ebb and flow of an unfamiliar sea, Eleanor finds herself in a state of wistful melancholy. 

Not at the artificial nature of her world. The mock reality...

Chapter 89

Glancing up and to the side, he took in the massively projected screen. There, he watched through his own half lidded eyes as the girl, who might as well have been his minder at this point, hand fed him slivers of some delicious looking fruit. If he could have salivated in that moment, he would h...

Chapter 88

Body’s Temple | Crushing Erosion!

Jun was quick to summon up his quintessential defense, but, by then, it was already too late.

Etheric Concession: The Curse of Perfection

That weird lightning attack… how come I couldn’t see i...