I’ve heard that burning to death is the most painful way to go. The way Harold screamed made me believe it.
I felt frozen, suddenly sick at what I’d done as the man dissolved into flame. It was as if an inferno had erupted in the core of his body, and every inch of him was either crisped completely black...
2021-02-09 04:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe story has officially launched at https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40182/only-villains-do-that ! With the first three up and public, here's the fourth chapter in advance for Patrons. Thank you all for your sup...
2021-02-07 11:52:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Who the fuck is this guy?” the one with the bloody sword shouted, straightening up and pointing it at me. “How’d he get in—hey, you!”
“He musta been with the peddler,” said the other one, who looked more nervous. “How come you didn’t see him come in?”
“Youwere...
2021-02-07 03:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, fuck you too, lady.”
Yes, that was the first thing I said to the goddess. I won’t defend it as an intelligent move, but what can I say? I’ve always been kind of a mouth.
Fortunately, she didn’t seem to mind too much.
“And that,” she said with a self-satisfied smirk, “is why...
2021-02-07 03:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Ugh, I wish the train would come. One of these smelly otaku is going to grope me, I just know it. You wouldn't believe what I'm seeing, Keiko! One of them is carrying a body pillow! Yes,with an anime character on it. I know! This is why I hate coming to Akihabara.”
If...
2021-02-07 03:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post7 Years Later
The scrapyard was just the right blend of order and chaos that Emilio had come to enjoy due to his experiences in the Omnist orphanage. A combination warehouse, smithy, and open market, the wide enclosed yard looked at first glance like utter lunacy, awash in cacophonous noise and bo...
2020-10-21 11:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostRaoul got back up, scrubbing a fist across his mouth. He didn’t try to run, and he still didn’t cry—just glared. So Emilio hit him again.
The smaller boy rocked back, staggered, but caught his feet. Raising his head, he sneered at Emilio. “Feel better?”
“Shut your little ...
2020-10-06 11:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostJoe wasn’t really surprised that he had to wait for those explanations. Jenny had cited the need to make preparations and the fact that there would be plenty of time for long discussion while they traversed the Golden Sea, and while Joe knew a deflection when he heard it, that one had the benefit of making g...
2020-10-04 06:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostJoe ambled down the main street of Sarasio, aware that he was playing right into a chapbook cliché but having made his peace with it. He liked to amble, liked to take his time and take in the movements of the town, greeting people, stopping to chat, noting all the repairs and new construction going on, seeing...
2020-09-30 08:20:43 +0000 UTC View Post“I see,” Shaeine whispered, not voicing the obvious rejoinder. It was, then, a question of who survived to tell the tale.
Her mother was going to be exceedingly irate about her playing a role in wiping out a major Imperial House, but at this point, it couldn’t be helped.
The pr...
2020-09-25 08:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Madouri family being what they were, the Manor’s formal dining room was laid out with a giant display behind the seat at the head of the long table, positioned so that a huge House crest would loom above the person seated there, with below that a broad flat space like an altar which could be used for any situationally ...
2020-09-23 03:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostTeal’s room was in a tower. Not one of the castle towers; it occupied a timber-framed space with a shorter but more interesting history, which had once housed the machinery of a windmill connected to a primitive mana turbine over two centuries prior, in a time when the sorcerer who had then owned the property had bee...
2020-09-12 10:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: The next two side stories are set in the summer after the Class of 1182's freshman year, between Books 7 and 8. They were originally planned to be short story ebook releases, but that ended up never happening and I want them to actually see the light of day, so here they are, belatedly.
In the...
2020-09-09 05:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Above all, in such times, we must have faith.”
The sanctuary of the Grand Cathedral was as packed as it had ever been, despite the Empire-wide state of emergency and warnings for all citizens to take shelter. In a way, they had, for all that a dense crowd might be even more vulnerable to attack; sh...
2020-09-05 06:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostThey came streaking out of the depths of the Golden Sea, leaving trails of black smoke across the sky. The skeletal figures made no formation, in fact fanning outward as they traveled; when they failed to do so, conflict erupted in brief midair scuffles, the necro-drakes snapping and clawing at each other before separa...
2020-09-03 05:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Nurdrakhaan,” the Archpope repeated, staring pensively at the ancient data screen affixed to Rector’s apparatus by a framework of commercially available brass fastenings. Currently it was displaying strings of text and numbers which conveyed raw data that the enchanter could evidently interpret, though Justinian...
2020-08-24 04:54:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe chapter is up at tiraas.net! Access code for patrons is:
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AT78XN3YNG
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