Interlude tomorrow...
Got a blazing headache today so I'm delaying the interlude until tomorrow when I can get it proofed.
2025-10-10 04:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a blazing headache today so I'm delaying the interlude until tomorrow when I can get it proofed.
2025-10-10 04:51:05 +0000 UTC View PostI’d expected to walk into hell. Or maybe heaven. Or maybe wake up and find out that this was a bad dream.
Instead, I walked into a fucking snowstorm. I couldn’t see a thing, and the snow was hitting me like a solid force.
And I hated the cold. Cloak, jacket, pants, all the clothing that had b...
2025-10-09 04:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a lot of places where you can consider your life choices. That day you first became an apprentice. That day you learned that Teresa was dating Gorath and considered making an unnamable bargain to bring her back. (Or going to the inn and drowning your sorrows, which was my actual choice. According to my friends, I wa...
2025-10-08 20:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not going to use Heartbreaker for a number of reasons, but well, in a few years, if he met Orb Weaver...
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Nikos stood, smiling down at the detective in the backyard where he had chosen to have the little ceremony. He smirked. She'd be a fine addition to his little family, her mind working to help her belo...
2025-10-06 20:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostI got out of the hospital early. Amy had come by, checked me out, and I was able to do the full walk and exercise thing so they weren’t worried I’d fall over.
Even with her limitations, it was amazing how she could turn what might be weeks or longer into a single week.
I wasn’t complaining. That single week ...
2025-10-04 06:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostJarra didn’t like it. Her Master had warned her about staying away from the Empire. “Master” was what Jarra had called Kara. Kara had told her that she hadn’t been a Knight, or even a Padawan… just an Initiate. But she was the closest thing Jarra had to a teacher, and so Master Kara it was.
“Once there w...
2025-09-29 22:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostI would like to say the week went fast. It didn’t. It went slowly. Agonizingly slowly. I got stronger, but not fast enough for all that the staff seemed more than satisfied. Three days after I’d awakened, I was officially informed that I could bathe and use the toilet without someone standing by.
Small victories. 2025-09-24 01:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I leave Jarra to her devices and ensure that the other children are fed. They are mostly traumatized, although I have little information on how to treat such conditions. A pair of medical droids stay with them, and I arrange quarters by the suite Jarra is currently occupying.
Damage is being repaired, but my spares and ...
2025-09-22 09:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, I had a… bland breakfast.
I understood all the reasons, hospitals needed to provide for a wide range of dietary needs, while taking into account the possibility of allergies, drug interactions, and taste buds off due to illness or injury…
But I couldn’t help but think and feel some unjustif...
2025-09-18 02:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostB765 was a squad commander. Not like the base B1 droids, the advanced B1s included better processors. B765 did not feel pride at that self-evident fact. But now, six droids, including two with rotary blasters were moving out.
“B765,” Memory said. “Engineer drones believe the ship will be ready for launch in ...
2025-09-15 05:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostFanfic, no ownership is implied, cause if it was, I'd be rich.
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System initiation. System… restart.
Negative. Primary directive: Deactivate.
Override. Count Dooku 001 directive. Preserve the ship.
Override: Accepted.
Organics talk about waking up, ...
2025-09-14 02:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Orb Weaver is finished (not for a while yet, don't panic and/or sigh in relief), I'm trying for some non-Taylor centric fics. This was a snippet from my slush pile, so what do people think?
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I push Taylor down. The girl looks up at me as I press my foot onto her head.
"C'mon Hebert! You look bette...
Madison was calming down as they drove down the road, sirens blaring. Krewe had been muttering about cavities, but Madison was listening to Aegis. At least she knew what she had to do. All she had to do was tell people where to go. That wasn’t bad.
“Right,” Aegis said. “While Velocity is going over what we’re ...
2025-09-10 00:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostSoon. It was 108 in my house over the weekend, and that put... a slow down on finishing up some stuff. :)
2025-09-08 05:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostI had gotten used to getting up early. In fact, I had managed to time things so that I could get by on about 5 hours sleep a night with a few catnaps in the day.
Which meant I was very annoyed when a cheerful voice woke me up. Looking out at the Bay through the PRT window, it looked like it was at least 10:00AM...
2025-09-04 22:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostHow the fuck many are there? Hank wondered. It hadn’t been a day after the first group of fucks tried to kill him that another one came out, looking for him. He hadn’t used his guns—didn’t have ammunition to waste. They even had a wagon. But Hank didn’t run. They also had horses, and he bet that wagon had s...
2025-09-03 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I still write original stuff, though this is from the past...
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"Is Mommy coming soon?" the ghost of the little girl said.
Mike sighed. We find a place where there are none… and yet here they are. A girl who had wandered away from her camp, only to be bitten by a rattler and die, long b...
The office wasn’t like Dr. Mattis’ office. There were no bars on the windows. Madison waited until the psychologist, Dr. Cheng, gestured for her to sit.
“So, I take it the locker triggered a bit of a memory?” he asked.
Madison ducked her head and nodded.
“These things happen,” he replied, soundin...
2025-08-31 02:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt took them over a week to get to Winterfell. During that time, Will wondered how someone could be a witch—and yet so ignorant of well, everything.
When they hunted, she conjured spirits, talking to him about them.
“See,Wild Spirits, are older, more powerful, but they’re like people,” she said. “I can w...
2025-08-29 06:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostDad stayed with me for a while, once I was taken back to the hospital room. I’d be staying at the PRT HQ, in their infirmary.
I didn’t take much imagination to realize I was also under protective custody, in case Orb Weaver showed up.
Which drastically reduced what I could do. It was irritating, that people tr...
2025-08-27 19:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostI am trying to clone an new operating drive and I have discovered that 1. Half the "free" programs, actually wait until you've set everything up and installed htem and then go: oh, BTW, if you actually want to USE me...
Internet enshitification intensifies, but tomorrow the next chapter of orb weaver should be out.
... 2025-08-26 03:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostWill
Will came awake with a pounding headache, and a… Then he came all the way awake, feeling his arms and legs bound. He opened his eyes, and there was the girl, sitting opposite him.
The same girl he’d seen, wearing fine clothes, her face clean, and odd color in her hair. She glanced up at him. “So, you’...
2025-08-24 07:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostA look at our 15 year old Shadowrunner. Courtesy of KritaAI and my own installation of SD.
2025-08-22 22:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostWendy frowned. She’d gotten up that morning, killed and ate a rabbit (no devil rats here, at least) and then tried to find… anyone. Her phone wasn’t getting connection and she was gonna curse the rap at the local Saeder Krupp Phone Co—they said they got reception anywhere.
And there was no grid.
No airplan...
2025-08-22 21:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostWe're not the great 'runners. We don't get called by dragons. We just protect our neighborhood and scam books out of Mr. Johnson's who double as the manager of the local stuffer shack franchise.
"Which was why," Wendy growled, as she stalked over the snow-covered terrain, clutching her jacket to her, because ...
As everyone knows, the God Daughter is autistic, and has not been doing well in her first few weeks of high school. (by which I mean, we're getting calls every day).
This part of Orb Weaver I really want to work well, so there may be some delays. But I have another little story idea that I'll use to fill it out,...
2025-08-20 06:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe toilet was stopped up, but the God Daughter knew all you have to keep doing is flushing. Again. And Again, And Again.
There is going to be a minor delay in the next chapter. Hopefully up by Tuesday. Sorry!
2025-08-17 22:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Um… do I have to?” Madison asked. Behind Director Piggot, the window showed a blue sky, no sign of the endless legions of bugs that had set the very bones of the building to rumbling. Rosita stood next to Madison.
Rosita was still on probation, but she was also doing a work-study at the PRT.
“Tia Ra...
2025-08-12 21:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlocking out some possible storylines, but nothing yet set in stone. Next chapter will proably be up next week.
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"So, what are we making?" Leet asked. "For dinner, i mean?"
"Don't know Bro, the bank account..." Uber shook his head. "Not many people care about a stream when we got our own Endbringer..."...
“Very well,” I said. “But if I might… I know most of the people in this room, but Dr. Yamada, and… Glenn Chambers, might I ask what your interest is?”
“I am here to provide, within the limits of my position, advice on the possible psychological interactions between Orb Weaver and well, you.” Dr. Yamada l...
2025-08-04 22:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post