It was a tense, still twilight, but when dawn first colored the horizon, nothing happened. Not right away. It wasn’t until the upper limb of the sun made its way above the horizon and slowly colored the muddy waters of the Oroza with da...
2023-09-18 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe answer proved to be zero, as it turned out. Without magic, he might have lost all of his digits, of course, but with a few applications of lesser healing, Simon was able to turn all his toes and even his blue and black nose back to a healthy pink color. That ...
2023-09-18 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the titanic conflict that was taking place between two inhuman powers, it might have been any other day as far as the world was concerned. Barges passed through the canal, craftsmen plied their trade, and though people still loitered around the...
2023-09-11 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another three months before Simon felt like he understood what he was doing before he finally completed the enchantment on his sword. Unlike the armor and the scabbard, which had done nothing to confirm that he’d actually done...
2023-09-11 13:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as I enter the home stretch on Re-Entry editing, I've decided to start working on covers. So far, I can't say I really love either approach, but hey - you've got to start somewhere. As most of you know, this will be my first self-published novel, and I hope to release it within the...
2023-09-10 17:18:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken the Lich more than a decade of planning before the first stone for this complicated building had been laid. Hundreds of souls had labored on the subject until they ceased to be, though. Dozens of bright men and women had set themselves...
2023-09-04 14:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only when Simon began to sew the runes of cold protection into the rabbit fur-lined gloves that he had made that he even understood that he’d need to sew the runes of fire protection as well. Until that moment, his plan had been to make ...
2023-09-04 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostI will probably save the more retrospective post for new years, but I just wanted to put it out there that I have now been posting my stories online for a year. Letter of the Law technically started at the end of July, and Tenebroum and Death After Death started in Earl...
2023-08-30 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 3 uses up all my words for the month, so no more audio chapters until after they refresh on September 19th.
2023-08-28 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe altar glided to a stop, fixing in its original place as the hunched figure began to laugh. It was a rasping, dry sound that sounded utterly forced. That only made it more bizarre, though. Then the thing began to point at Siddrim’s avatar, though...
2023-08-28 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Simon was well enough that the village’s matriarch began to find an excuse to ask him when he was going to be leaving almost every day, he rented a cottage outside of town where he wouldn’t have to see her as often. He still needed to ...
2023-08-28 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy next story, Broken System starts out pretty dark, though perhaps not quite as dark as Tenebroum, where someone is stabbed to death in the opening sentence. As a result, I've been giving the concept of what makes a story too dark a lot of thought. Lots of relatively l...
2023-08-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This chapter was extra-long, at almost 12 minutes. I had to do a couple attempts for some of the lines, but I'm very happy with how it turned out. Let me know what you think of the dialog.
2023-08-21 14:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven as he ran up the stairs, Todd was sure that something would grab him and drag him back down into the darkness. It was inevitable. This had all just been a game, somehow. Monsters like this would never let him free. They would just torment him, and...
2023-08-21 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week was a blur for Simon, but it wasn’t any fun. He tried to remind himself that the previous week he’d spent mostly unconscious, though, and this was a step up, but it didn’t help. He’d finally tried his hand at healing the skin an...
2023-08-21 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So, this is the first chapter of Tenebroum's audiobook. It's AI, and it's not perfect, but for what it is I'm kind of blow of away at how it turned out. Currently I have the $5/mo subscription with Eleven Labs. So, that's enough word to create about a chapter a week, which is a good init...
2023-08-16 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few minutes of Todd’s life were stark terror, and he remembered nothing of them beyond his surprise that he didn’t hear that massive legion of the dead mobilizing to follow him. Instead, the silence was almost deafening as he race...
2023-08-14 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSimon woke up slowly, and feeling the lumpy bed beneath him, he sighed. Despite all that, he’d been returned to his cabin, which meant that he was dead again. Only, if that was true, why was he still in so much pain?
His eyelids shot open at ...
2023-08-14 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo as anyone on the discord knows, last week I wasn't around because of a personal emergency. Things are resolved, but if you ask me, the real tragedy is that I wrote less than 8k words last week. Soooo - that's why we make buffers right? To use them?
So, I'm halfway caught up on comm...
2023-08-09 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe hallway that left the well they’d descended quickly split again and again, branching in all directions. There was no danger of getting lost just yet, though. This wasn’t just because of the river of darkness he followed as his heart pounded...
2023-08-07 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostEven as the first waves of dwarves charged at him, the Lich began to flex and move in the unfamiliar body. It had only been the last few months that it had begun using drudges to practice walking and moving for the day when it finally had a body again. Not that ...
2023-08-07 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Simon arrived at the next level, he could still hear the golem thundering and crashing impotently beneath him. The thing was bigger than the portal, so he doubted it could even make it across to follow him even if it could get up here, but ...
2023-08-07 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostPassing through the shadows back to the Lich’s lair was a miserable experience for Krulm’venor. During that brief trip into the dark, he felt like every bone in his metal body had its marrow replaced with ice, and even though the process was almost instant...
2023-07-31 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThough he did not know whether the Lich left him for a week or a year, his screams echoed through the dead city for a long time as Krulm’venor suffered in the same way he’d made his own victims suffer. He’d always enjoyed the brief screams that his victims would ma...
2023-07-31 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time he’d been in this cave, he’d stumbled through the darkness toward the same sounds of chanting as he was now, but he’d been cocky. He hadn’t thought the mage, warlock, or whatever the old man was hadn’t looked like much, and that h...
2023-07-31 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this week several interesting things happened.
What had just happened was impossible. Even stranger than the fact that the altar had suddenly vanished to some secret basement beneath the temple or that Brother Verdenin had vanished with it was that everyone seemed to listen to the priest’s words. For the be...
2023-07-24 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was on the night of winter’s first full moon while he was bathing deep in the pits of warm mud in the place of honor he’d earned that Tsson’vek saw what the darkness had done to the drake he’d killed years before. Its once-mottled scales of emera...
2023-07-24 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 55 - Get The Behind Me
“You’re not going to invite your friend to join us?” the demon asked as soon as Simon turned around. “I don’t generally prefer my meals well done, but I could make an exception.”
He was dressed the same as he was all the times be...
2023-07-24 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post