“Kala, unseal the hatch please,” Kalan requested of the AI.
The hatch unlocked and swung open. Kalan exhaled a breath that he told himself wasn’t a sigh and stepped into the room. He swung the hatch shut behind him and the ship automatically locked it. The woman perched on the bed dir...
2023-07-04 09:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, here's a first look at one of the other novels that I've been chipping away at a little bit at a time. ~Eric
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A light rain splattered me as I walked. The dark clouds overhead gave the streets a feeling of premature dusk and threatened somethin...
2023-07-03 20:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostA number of people have made it known to me that they don't ever want to see updates about non-Unintended Cultivator projects or content. So, I've created alternative versions of most of the tiers. If all you want is Unintended Cultivator, look for the tiers starting with "Cultivator Only" and pi...
2023-07-03 20:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostZhu Fen had been on the receiving end of killing intent before. At least, she thought she had. The sect had all their disciples train against it with those of a higher cultivation stage, just to prepare them for the possibility. The sheer weight of the killing intent that landed on her in that mo...
2023-07-03 09:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostBanjin Colle wasn’t certain how long after Temera he arrived on Cobalt 7, but it was sufficient time for her to vanish into the station’s shadows. He was confident that she was going to try to kill Rinn. Part of him thought he should let her, while another part of him thought he should stop i...
2023-07-03 08:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostTemera Amaluy had a lot of time to think back on that odd, unexpected conversation with Banjin Colle. He wasn’t what she’d expected. He was less implacable than she imagined him to be. When he’d broached the subject of what to do about Kalan Rinn, she thought that they’d be on the same pa...
2023-07-03 08:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s not how it was!” Tessan screamed, throwing his hands out in an unconscious defensive gesture.
“No,” shouted Estra at the same moment as she rushed toward Kalan’s back.
Estra came to a stop with Kalan’s blaster pointed straight at her forehead. Tessan was pressed ...
2023-07-03 07:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, people naturally want to know what's happening next with Unintended Cultivator. Mostly, when will the next chapter drop. I went back and forth on this with myself. On the one hand, I literally haven't had a day off since sometime in late April. On the other hand, superstitious writer Er...
2023-07-03 02:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostFalling Leaf was bored. She’d gone through her usual morning. She caught a rabbit to eat. Then, she’d gone and let the Kho give her treats. Sometimes the Caihong would join him, but she hadn’t that morning. Then, Falling Leaf had snuck into the house and stolen one of the Kho’s snacks fro...
2023-07-02 14:42:19 +0000 UTC View PostSen was pleased to discover that being on a ship didn’t bother him particularly. It took him a few hours to get used to the motion of the ship. After that, though, he was fine. He chalked it up to his body cultivation. Lifen, on the other hand, wasn’t that lucky. She was ill for days. So, Sen...
2023-07-02 03:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostLo Meifeng had explained her plan to get out of the city to Sen several times, and he finally decided that he just needed to know what his part in things were. He was happy to discover that, aside from putting up a little bit of the gold he’d acquired from the demonic cultivator, his part was m...
2023-07-01 14:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere had been no real hiding it once Sen started preparing to leave. If it had just been him, and he’d been planning to vanish into the night, that would have been one thing. When he gave it some thought, he even gave himself even odds of getting away if he went alone. He could hide a...
2023-07-01 03:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostSen waited patiently while Lo Meifeng examined the contents of the demonic cultivator’s storage ring. He was pleased to note that she looked as disturbed by the pills as he had been. When she got to the small notebook, though, she looked downright alarmed. By the time she finished skimming thro...
2023-06-30 15:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Traffic around the station is a little heavier than usual, Captain,” said Em after talking with station control. “Arrival time is estimated at three hours.”
“Thank you, Em. Please contact the client and let them know we’re inbound along with our ETA.”
“Yes, Captain....
2023-06-30 07:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, Kalan had gone to check on Petronan only to find the man’s cabin empty. He checked the galley and medsuite. No Petronan. He finally made his way down to Engineering and found the man sitting at one of the workstations. Kalan cleared his throat. The engineer glanced over and sh...
2023-06-30 06:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostBanjin Colle had shadowed the fake captain at a very healthy distance. He was certain that, if he followed that young man for long enough, he’d discover who sent him. Instead, he found out that the fake captain was the real captain of an actual freighter ship. Banjin was simply flummox...
2023-06-30 06:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Fresia started talking, the whole story had simply poured out of her in a rush. Petronan had gone with her and directed them to a little open-air market he knew about. Kalan was confident he knew what kind of market she meant. They were common enough in port cities. They were less of a forma...
2023-06-30 06:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another week to fulfill the last of his invitation obligations. Fortunately, no one else tried some stupid power play like Chen Aiguo had. Instead, most of those meals and events were simply boring. Yet, the dinner with the Celestial Arch sect was by far the oddest of the lot. While Sen h...
2023-06-30 03:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostSen flopped back on the bed and let out a relieved sigh. He’d spent the last week attending one lunch, dinner, or function after another. He’d met so many people that their names and faces had all blurred together into an undifferentiated mass that he just labeled vaguely important people...
2023-06-29 04:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostBanjin Colle had shadowed the fake captain at a very healthy distance. He was certain that, if he followed that young man for long enough, he’d discover who sent him. Instead, he found out that the fake captain was the real captain of an actual freighter ship. Banjin was simply flummox...
2023-06-28 15:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostSen wasn’t particularly looking forward to meeting with the elder, at least in part because he’d meant to take a closer look at the sect treasures. If nothing else, he would have liked to discover what they did. He’d meant to spend some time studying the treasures, but there had constantly ...
2023-06-28 14:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Sen took Lifen’s advice and brought in Lo Meifeng to help him sort through the various invitations he’d received. Together with Lifen’s practical insights into the local state of affairs, Sen wound up declining about half of the invitations. He was surprised when Lo Meifeng sugg...
2023-06-28 03:55:42 +0000 UTC View Post“So, just like that, you own half of this place?” Lifen asked.
She gave the run-down alchemist’s shop they had just exited a sidelong glance. Sen followed her eyes and gave her a half smile.
“Yeah, something like that.”
Lifen sighed. “The other two places were better...
2023-06-27 15:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostElder Deng’s fist slammed into the wall. If he’d been in any other room, anywhere else in the sect, that stone would have shattered and likely sent a cloud of deadly shrapnel into some unsuspecting junior sect members. That was why the room existed. It had been reinforced with countless forma...
2023-06-27 03:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen had thought he was exaggerating about how long he would sleep, he did spend nearly a full day doing nothing but sleeping. He only came around a few times. He found food and drink waiting for him, fell onto it like a ravenous beast, and dropped almost immediately back into deep unconscio...
2023-06-26 15:36:10 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the things that Sen hated about coming out the other side of a fight was that, when it was over, it wasn’t actually over. There were always a hundred little details to take care of before you could finally collapse somewhere and rest. As much as he just wanted to shoo Shen Mingxia back t...
2023-06-26 03:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostSen was a little surprised to hear the woman identify him as Feng Ming’s student, but that was nothing compared to Elder Deng’s reaction. Sen could almost hear the Elder’s heartrate triple, and he saw the sweat beading on the man’s forehead. The elder looked at Sen.
“Is that true?...
2023-06-25 17:07:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo, like most people, I need to visit the grocery store occasionally. That happened this morning, and it took a lot longer than I planned for. I forgot it was Sunday, so there were a lot of people there. But, I'm dutifully working on the next chapter, which should drop in the...
2023-06-25 14:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as Sen wanted to sleep, wanted to rest, he didn’t dare, because as much as he wanted to believe the danger had finally passed, he knew it hadn’t. If anything, the danger was even greater now, just not necessarily as immediate. So, he went inside long enough to dress his wounds, and se...
2023-06-25 02:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostAs the night slowly slipped away toward morning, Sen sat on the steps and cultivated. He couldn’t know for sure, but he had an intuition that the next fight, if it came, would not be so easy. It may even well be one he couldn’t win. Shen Mingxia knelt to one side, always in the periphery of h...
2023-06-24 14:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post