Sorry about the delay. Again. Life is hard, I am depressed, yadda yadda yadda. Chapter is here now, hope ya'll enjoy it.
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Three people stood on a hill, overlooking a city.
James, Anesh, and Alanna. They were on a rolling sand dune, ripples of grit spiraling around ...
2020-04-24 09:43:35 +0000 UTC View PostI lost a few days to just being a lifeless mass over the last week, because someone I care about passed away. I'm trying really hard to not let that sadness seep into my work, and I'm finding that writing in this world is doing a lot of good work helping me keep my head up. It's hard for me to truly despair when &...
2020-04-10 10:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostLook upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
So hey, there's some kind of weird "outside" thing going on. Now, I normally don't go outside, which is good, because it means I'm basically immune to spontaneous pandemics. But it turns out, my partner *does* go outside. And lately, life has gotten a hell of a lot more stressful what with quarantine procedu...
2020-03-20 09:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostMore words!
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There were, of course, *again*, things to take care of. It wasn’t like delves into the Office had gotten less dangerous somehow, just because they’d managed to find a place that was more open about wanting to kill them all. So they had plans to make, things to buy, ...
2020-03-09 06:39:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter one fucking hundred.
Man I'm tired. Gonna keep writing, though.
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“James, *wait*!” The shout echoed against the polished stone ramp of the high school’s lower level. It echoed alongside heavy, wet bootsteps, as James stomped his way up to the ground floor, away...
2020-03-05 03:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo, for the first time in months, I was on track to have a chapter out in about five days, instead of twenty. I was writing, I wasn't stressed, I felt good.
I got the flu.
Super.
Anyway, I'm finally starting to recover, so I finished up that chapter, and here it is now.
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S...
2020-02-19 09:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostLet me tell you a story, before we get to the story. Last month? Last month sucked. Utility bills went up, I ended up having to cover a lot of medical expenses for medications and appointments, I ate the cost of a bed, and also my car needed new break pads. Yesterday, I had to beg a quarter off a co-wo...
2020-02-08 08:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostTook a while on this one, too. Hope it's worth it.
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“Oh cool, those guys are playing Pokemon.”
James and Alanna were currently lurking - though both of them would object to the other using that word - around the campus of one of the several local high schools. They would obj...
2020-01-23 11:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostNOT DEAD YET
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“Oh my god it's good to see you again!” James greeted Anesh as he came through the door. He threw his arms wide for a hug, waiting politely in a frozen pose for Anesh to set down his bag, slough off his coat and shoes, and toss his keys into the bowl on the counter...
2020-01-08 06:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
They say that power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts ultimately. I’m not sure which “they” said that originally, but I think these days, we all know it’s kind of a lie.
Power doesn’t corrupt. It reveals. It shows the world who you are, truly, when there’s less and less hol...
2019-12-22 21:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostI would not trade away the last two weeks for anything, but let's not do that again anytime soon.
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James and Alanna made it back to the breach to find it more or less exactly as expected. Kind of a chaotic mess, but otherwise fine. JP gave them a wave as they walked up, standing...
2019-12-18 17:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis was just something I threw together while in a coffee shop. I'm not sure if I like it, honestly. I feel like there's some more worldbuilding hidden here that I could have tapped into, but I mostly just wanted to give a reply to a prompt that seemed to be pushing a grimdark dystopia with something that was a b...
2019-12-05 07:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostMental health makes slow authors. I'm trying to be better about not, like, specifically *apologizing* for things like my depression, but it's hard. Especially when it feels like I have a responsibility to make cool art. Also when I *want* to make cool art, but feel gated out of it by my own brain.
Any...
“Okay, so, I didn’t make a powerpoint for this.” James said, standing in front of a truck-sized whiteboard. “For obvious reasons. But I just wanted everyone to know that I thought about it, and chose not to, so you’re welcome.”
“Boo!” Alanna called from the back of th...
2019-11-25 12:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is a bit long, which is why it's a bit late. My hands hurt.
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“I bet you ten bucks that it’s just a raccoon.” Alanna said as James followed behind Fredrick’s car. She hadn’t really paid attention to this before their mild chase scene earlier today, but now that...
2019-11-19 09:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostNow? Personal moments. Next time? How to fight a ghost with a stick.
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“Alright.” James announced his presence as he strode through the loading dock door to the building they were leasing as a glorified clubhouse. “We’re back. Let's solve problems.”
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2019-11-12 06:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be an actual chapter of TDG later tonight. I just got distracted, which should surprise no one.
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"Okay, look." I open with, rolling the words in my mouth along with the cigarette, trying to figure out how to explain this and also putting a lot of effort ...
2019-11-12 01:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostThank you all for your patience on slow updates while I moved. It has been... unpleasant. But it's done now, mostly.
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“Got it.” James slipped his phone back into his pocket, thumbing the button to end the call. He looked up at Sarah who was staring at him with raised eyebrows...
2019-11-05 10:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostNormally by this point, I would have posted another chapter, and begun work on the next. But the astute patron may have noticed that hasn't happened. In fact, I do have one half-done. But for the next week or two, I'm in the process of finding a place to move to, moving there, and getting a new job, so I've ...
2019-10-21 00:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor sat in a booth at a fast food joint that hadn’t been cleaned in a week. She looked down at the burger in her hands, and tried to find the words to describe it. As a whole, El thought to herself, she was an artist; she didn’t deal with words that often. When she spoke, she liked to use dumb slang,...
2019-10-14 07:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis one delayed slightly due to a sudden onset of road trip.
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It was a cold night. No stars overhead; the layer of dark clouds saw to that. Not much wind, but the low temperature and the smattering of rain made sure that everyone knew that winter had arrived. There hadn’t been much ...
2019-10-09 09:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out trashy pulp isekai stories had it right all along. Who knew?
Well, me, of course. I knew a lot of stuff, after reaching the wishmaker. It took the better part of a lifetime, and the combined efforts of fifty of the best that humanity had to offer to get there, but we finally did it...
2019-10-04 06:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“I am almost positive we took a wrong turn somewhere.” Anesh commented, sounding a lot less worried than someone should be when they were potentially trapped in a dungeon. “James, do you have the map we were drawing?”
‘Drawing’, in James opinion, was absolutely the wrong word for how...
2019-10-03 22:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
“Alright, before we go in there, does anyone new have any questions?” James asked the group. Naturally, Anesh raised a hand. “No, man, I mean the actual new people. Unless… are you the original Anesh or the copy Anesh?”
“That’s kind of a rude question.” Alanna s...
2019-10-01 09:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post
“Wellll fuck.” James was the first one to speak after the group made its way through the door. Slightly different people than last week, but the composition was roughly the same.
Daniel wasn’t here, but the other member of the Guardsman faction, Tyrone, was. And apparently, Pathfinder had ...
2019-09-27 05:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Lorian Bulregard was, above all else, a bit of a prick. At least, that was what James had decided about the Phi Delta Theta brother seated across the table from him. He was almost a comical stereotype of a prick, really; slicked back hair that was a little too greasy, a generic tough-guy tattoo visibl...
2019-09-27 02:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post
“James!” The call went out through the home. Alanna’s voice startled Anesh and Ganesh who were absorbed in some project on the table, woke up Sarah, woke up *Secret* who apparently slept now, and then made its way to James. Sarah just rolled over and pulled the blankets over her head like ...
2019-09-27 02:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
First floor.
James and Anesh went
2019-09-27 02:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
