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Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 9 (all readers)
Chapter Nine – “Cali vamps tan”“You know, when people on the force told me they thought you might be a jinx, I had hoped they were kidding,” Detective Gao said to me. “But no, I should have heeded the advice of my elders and been more wary of the sort of mayhem and carnage you bring in your wake.”“Hey hey hey, this one ain’t on me, Gao,” I said to him. “Well.” I scowled for a second. “That’s not entirely true, I suppose. It’s mostlynot on me. The only things that I contributed here are the shattered window and the ...
Weekly Update - 7/10/24
I swear to you, at some point things will either get back to normal or I'll die, although I make no promises about which will happen first.On Wednesday of last week, I started feeling the occasional bouts of nausea, like I was about to throw up, and never did, but they were rare and fleeting. My appetite dwindled over the next few days, and I was trying to drink as much water and fruit juice as I could, but I wasn't eating a whole lot either. Thursday and Friday passed without things getting better, in fact getting more frequent, and Sa...
Captains' Days - Ch. 3
Chapter ThreeTommy certainly wasn’t used to being woken up in the middle of being blown, but this was the third day in a row he’d opened his eyes to see the elvish princess bobbing her head up and down on his cock. There was a sort of wild enthusiasm to how she did it, like she had something to prove or territory to mark.“Jesus, Kaya, you don’t have to go all hog wild on me, not that I’m complaining either,” Tommy said, his hand reaching down to brush her hair out of her face for her, accidentally making her shiver when he brushed a...
Weekly Update - 7/3/24
I'm back! I'm alive! I feel mostly better! Aaaaaaand it's a fucking heatwave. Great. Juuuuust great. It's currently... 102F outside? Oh fuuuuuuuck this... Yeah, I'm typing this offline from a Chili's right now where I'm getting lunch and I'll post it as soon as I get back to the house. Most days I don't care that we don't have A/C. When it gets over 100? Yeah, I dip out for a few hours.Hopefully everyone enjoyed QT2:28, which clocked in a little bigger than I expected it to, but I figured nobody would min...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 28
Chapter Twenty-EightMay 4th, 2021“General Bonner, forgive my bluntness, but you’re fucking kidding me, right?” Andy asked the General as he stood in her office, with Lexi, Melody and Fiona waiting just outside for clearance reasons. “I understand there’s a high level of complexity to this issue, but your go-to move for these sorts of problems cannot be ‘hey, let’s add another member to Team Rook, that’ll make things easier.’”“I understand your hesitation, Mr. Rook, but we’re in something of a pickle right now, and like i...
Weekly Update - 6/26/24
Spoiler: I'm not dead.I want you to know - this was not a given. Most of the last week, I've been mostly lying in bed, trying to sleep, fighting off the heat, desperately trying to rediscover how to breathe easily. It wasn't Covid. It was one of the worst head colds I can recall having in decades. My flatmate jokes that when I'm sick, it can be judged on the SoupCon scale. Soupcon Five, the lowest end of the scale, I respond to the suggestion that I should drink some soup with "It's not that bad." SoupCon Four, I'...
6/19/24 - Weekly Update (ish)
Those of you who are members of my Discord probably have noticed I haven't been online basically for more than a few minutes since Saturday. I cobbled together the public submissions last night, but other than that and firing off the most recent Neon Stonehenge, I've barely been online at all.That's because I have been basically in bed since Saturday, shivering, sneezing and sweating like a madman on an opium detox. (No opium involved, obviously.) It's not Covid, but what it is is the worst sinus cold I've had in a couple of...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 9 (Alpha readers)
Chapter Nine – “Cali vamps tan”“You know, when people on the force told me they thought you might be a jinx, I had hoped they were kidding,” Detective Gao said to me. “But no, I should have heeded the advice of my elders and been more wary of the sort of mayhem and carnage you bring in your wake.”“Hey hey hey, this one ain’t on me, Gao,” I said to him. “Well.” I scowled for a second. “That’s not entirely true, I suppose. It’s mostlynot on me. The only things that I contributed here are the shattered window and the ...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 8 (all readers)
Chapter Eight – “Enemy dance card”Despite the fact that there wasn’t much of a connection between the Lady of Tides death and my runaway bride, I couldn’t help but feel like the two cases were connected. The Atlantean thread was there, but it was flimsy, at best. And as much as I wanted to get back to Detective Gao with some positive news, so far, all I was getting were mixed signals, inscrutable clues and conflicting information that wasn’t leading me any closer to where she’d gone.Any angle of attack I wanted to apply to Gao’s...
Quaranteam: Book Two - Ch. 27
Chapter Twenty-SevenMay 3rd, 2021 – 9:47 p.m.“You can’t mean to tell me our best option is to just sit here,” Andy said, pacing uncomfortably around the room. “I understand it’s a panic room, and that we’re in an underground bunker in a hidden part of the mansion, but I feel like stationary makes us a target.”“A hard target, boss,” Lexi said to him, watching the screens intently, trying to figure out what the hell the two different teams were doing. “Any word from Linda, Niko?”Niko shook her head. “Last I’d heard fro...
Weekly Update - 6/12/24
This heat is fucking killing me. I've got the next chapter of Quaranteam Book Twojust about done, so it'll get posted before I crash tonight. I need to nail the ending right, and hilariously enough, it's both a cliffhanger and yet not at all. You'll see when it drops, and I hope you'll like it.Very short weekly update this week, just because I'm swamped. But I'll have another story within a day or so, and hopefully another one on Saturday. I'm getting caught back up on commissioned work (and DayJob stuff) so I k...
Weekly Update - 6/5/24
So much writing to do, so little time. I had a Day Job project spring up that ate up a little bit of the week, but thankfully, it was expected to just be 8-12 hours of work, and for once, the person pitching me the gig wasn't lying, and I finished it in under 10. You can see from QT2:26that while I did some time skips early on, we're also going to have sections that slow down and expand across several chapters. For those of you who aren't subscribers, let me just say that the datestamp in 2:26also includes a timestamp, so expect to ...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 4 (alphas)
Chapter FourJuly 12th, 2020Joe had been forced to sit and wait for a number of things in his life, but the time when Liv left him and when she and the others returned felt like it might as well have been a thousand years, even if it was only an hour or two at best. Tom had taken his girls’ things back to his room and Joe had taken his girls’ things back to his own, and while the two men could’ve sat and chatted while they waited, Joe preferred to be alone with his thoughts for a little bit.It was a lot for him to wrap his head around, goi...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 3 (all readers)
Chapter ThreeJuly 12th, 2020It was almost a full day after Tom woke up that he heard Meg and Mel waking up, so when he heard them starting to stir, he sprinted into the bedroom, closing the door behind him so that he could fill them in when they gained consciousness.The first few hours he’d been awake had been frustrating as all hell, because he’d attempted to get dressed only to discover that no matter which of his clothes he put on, his skin itched incessantly. As it turned out, the variant of the serum they’d been exposed to came with ...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 26
Chapter Twenty-SixMay 3rd, 2021 – 7:23 p.m.They hated to leave it at that, but Andy and Phil had agreed they both needed to take some time to think, and while Andy had promised he wouldn’t go around talking about it with people outside of his house, he didn’t say he wouldn’t tell anyone in his family.Because he absolutely knew he had to talk to someone about the whole thing, but the idea of telling Niko or Ash right now terrified him. He needed to not crush their excitement, and he couldn’t imagine putting that kind of pressure on Ash...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 8 (alpha)
Chapter Eight – “Enemy dance card”Despite the fact that there wasn’t much of a connection between the Lady of Tides death and my runaway bride, I couldn’t help but feel like the two cases were connected. The Atlantean thread was there, but it was flimsy, at best. And as much as I wanted to get back to Detective Gao with some positive news, so far, all I was getting were mixed signals, inscrutable clues and conflicting information that wasn’t leading me any closer to where she’d gone.Any angle of attack I wanted to apply to Gao’s...
Weekly Update - 5/29/24
I'm most of the way through the next chapter of Neon Stonehenge, which I'll finish up after I get up tomorrow and post for alpha level readers then. It's most of the way done now, but I'm super goddamn tired and I want to have some time to visit it under the light of day and make sure it's both lining up the way it needs to and doing all the things I want it to. But it'll be done tomorrow.And we'll see how many things I can keep going. I didn't even take time to go see Furiosa over the weekend, so I'll have t...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 7 (all readers)
Chapter Seven – “What We’re Calling ‘Penancewear’”I wish that anytime I took a case that all the rest of the daily shit that goes on in day-to-day living would simply drop by the wayside and I could just focus on whatever it was I was working on exclusively. Sadly, life, as always, had different plans in mind for me, and nobody ever lets me just concentrate when there’s rough shit on my plate I’m trying to work through.This is all to point out that when my cell phone rang and Bad Penny’s name popped up on my caller ID, I shoul...
The Turn At Sin River - Ch. 1
(This is Chapter One of a small-scale story. I imagine it'll be 5-10 chapters long, but we'll play it as it lies.)Chapter OneThere are only two schools of thought about the desert – either that it has no memory, or that it forgets nothing. I would love to believe the former; I am only able to believe the latter. As many times as I have tried to disappear, something always resurfaces.My name’s Greg Sumner. I play cards for a living.Or at least, I did, until this whole mess.Now I don’t know whatI do. I’ll figure it out eventually,...
Before The Storm - Ch. 12
Chapter TwelveThe trip back to the planet was completely uninterrupted, something Sketch was convinced boded ill fortune for their dealing with the Harbormaster. There weren’t any signs of Y’bari cruisers or Starless Dominion battleships, and the automated docking system recognized them as a returning vessel, so they didn’t even have to go through the standard negotiations and just passed through an automated scan, one that all of Sketch’s systems were able to easily defeat without so much as batting an eyelash.When The Praeterituslande...
Weekly Update - 5/22/24
I'm in the process of finishing up the next chapter of Before The Storm, which was voted upon by the Voting Tier. I do love getting back into writing Sketch and the crew of The Praeteritus. They're one of my favorite stories to circle around to. That said, I want to get it right. So, expect it sometime tomorrow. Lots to do over the next week and change, but I assure you, I'm working on writing as much as I can, while still telling quality stories.There have been reports of some Patreon subscriptions failing to go through, but accord...
A Pack of His Own - Ch. 13 (all readers)
Chapter ThirteenA day before the Spring Gala, a note arrived at the diner for Will, informing him that it was semi-formal attire, but that he wouldn’t need a full tie and blazer, simply a nice shirt and slacks, not jeans or shorts. Silversmith had also stressed that Will should be dressed in muted colors, preferably grays. Will spent far longer than he would’ve liked to admit trying to find a look that made him look both respectable and a little intimidating, but instead settled for not looking like a high school senior begrudgingly going t...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Intermission 5
Intermission Five – SergeiMay 3rd, 2021 – New Eden, California“You look exhausted, Sergei,” Dr. McKenna said to Sergei Petrov as he entered the room, his partner Andrei having headed down to the canteen to grab them some lunch. “I know it’s not exactly thrilling having to come here and ejaculate as many times as you can into a jar, but we’re working to synthesize it as best as we can. Hopefully soon we’ll be able to let you just sit and rest at home without needing you in here every few days, but because you’ve been here, we...
Weekly Update - 5/15/24
Last week, I made the decision to return to Captains' Days, a story I hadn't touched in months, simply because it hadn't won any of the monthly votes, but Tommy's voice had been plucking at the back of my skull for a while. I've tried fighting those stories before. They end up slowing everything down until I give them voice, so I let Tommy step into the forefront and wrote another chapter. That story's got a lot of legs to it, so I'll probably need to make a point not to let it go too long in between chapters again. ...
Captains' Days - Ch. 2
Chapter TwoIt had never occurred to Tommy that complete and total honesty would play such a big part in his life moving forward, but in the days since he’d captured Kaya, their inability to lie to one another had built the most impressive foundation between the two of them.There was no need to worry about sparing feelings or trying to play coy. All their cards were on the table for the asking, and neither found it a problem to ask bold and daring questions.They both found each other insanely attractive, and she had admitted to admiring his gu...
Brewster's Brood - Ch. 37
Part Thirty-SevenJenny Westinghouse – 3/11/2017 – Sunday –11:27 pmSome people got off on the idea of anonymous sex, but it was clear that Max was getting a little nervous by the fact that he’d just ejaculated inside of a woman who hadn’t even introduced herself. They were going to keep getting pressed against him, and the longer he was here, the harder it was going to be to keep it from getting weird, so as soon as the band was off stage, they were going to need to give Max the yank, and pull him from the crowd to get him on the move ...
Weekly Update - 5/8/24
I'm most of the way through the next chapter of Brewster's Brood, so I'll try and get that done tonight before I head out to my concert. I'm seeing The Mission UK tonight, and this time actually in San Jose. I've told this story to a bunch of people, so forgive me if I've told it to you folks as well. I went and saw The Chameleons and The Mission UK up in San Francisco last September at a place called The Chapel, and normally that's a great place to see bands, but it was so blisteringly hot and cramped that I was afr...
Before The Storm - Ch. 11
Chapter ElevenThe idea of having a baby in transport was something that had happened countless times over the span of humanity, but it never got any easier, and Sketch didn’t care for the idea of being short-handed on the ship as he was.“I’m going to induce labor now, if you don’t mind, Captain,” Jez said to him over the intercoms. “Assuming everything goes nice and normal, I should have the baby out by the time we reach Reltbex, and we should be able to deposit the baby with her family and get the mother back to Jeratine before any...
Weekly Update - 5/1/24
Read anything interesting lately? ;)With Quaranteam 2:25dropping yesterday, I know a bunch of people are in shock, but all I can tell you is that this has been on the cards for a long time now. When I was on vacation a few months ago and I met face-to-face with the author of QT: 808, I gave him the broad strokes of the coming chapters up to the end of 25, and I remember his exact words. "You're insane; I love it." I hope you think it lived up to those expectations. The writer's group spent much of the last month or so guessing ...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 25
Chapter Twenty-FiveMay 3rd, 2021The last several days had been something of a blur for Andy. Thankfully, Ash seemed to be holding to her expected delivery date, and so the twins hadn’t yet arrived, although Aisling and Andy had picked out their names – Kayleigh and Riley – and Andy felt a little bit of relief that his son, his first son, Matt, got to experience being the center of attention for at least a little bit on his own.It also turned out that whatever else the nanobots rushing through Piper’s body were doing, they were at least ...
