“I’d love to get in touch with her. Have a little chat about what she remembers.”
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2022-11-02 23:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostI stared up at the metal beams stretching the length of Aaron’s house, supporting the wide open balcony on the second floor, an adage swirled up in my mind.
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
As sayings go, it’s horseshit. And that’s not even getting into the terminal velocity pedantry. The saying sho...
2022-11-02 23:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostBut the fear that others might die because of my mistakes haunt...
2022-10-21 22:10:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no way of immediately knowing exactly how far back I’d gone, making this the most important part. It was still the same dew-crested morning. All the wagons and carriages were whole, meaning the drephin hadn’t made their move. I spun towards the overlooking mountain.
“God, that sucks.” Streaking violet and blue swimmers covered my left eye. I sat up slowly and leaned forward, cradling my head. The nylon sleeping bag’s crinkling was absurdly loud.
It took a moment to make out Sae in the darkness. Sae nestled in the nook beside the window, where she pointed towards the house across fro...
2022-10-21 22:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostRain poured, flooding the sidewalk and forming small rivers that followed runoffs to the storm drain. There’d been no warning of the incoming storm, save a few dark clouds on the horizon that overtook the sky in little more than an hour.
Weather is volatile in Texas. Anyone who’s lived here for longer than a week can tell ...
2022-10-21 21:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s something to be said for southern hospitality. I’d never seen the point of it before, but inviting neighbors, friends, and enemies to mingle in a closed setting was a hell of a way to create a sense of unity where none existed before.
Even if that sense of unity was counterfeit.
The location was the old golf ...
2022-10-19 03:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostKinsley and I were going to need to have a conversation about making the orders she gave her men more flexible.
Not far into region five, traffic backed up to an excessive degree, forcing us to go on foot. Emphasis on us. Ditching Grit and Ire was impossible. When they’d stubbornly refused to let me forage out on my...
2022-10-19 03:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Thanks for your patience. I've been working out the direction I want to take Double-Blind lately, and attempting to do that while writing has made things a bit strained. Considering that, I'm going to take the rest of this week to outline the next hundred chapters or so and really nail down the direction I want the story to go.&nbs...
2022-10-12 19:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostI had to stop drawing attention to myself as Matt. People were already asking too many questions.
Which was why, as I pushed myself out of the SUV and squinted through the tinted lenses of a pair of dusty Oakley’s Ire offered me, I committed myself to doing nothing but enjoying a heaping serving of barbecue.
With that ...
2022-10-07 23:10:41 +0000 UTC View PostNeeded to reset the stakes. Make...
2022-10-07 23:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostI held my breath.
Buzzcut’s eyes finally slid off me. He pumped sanitizer into his palm from a bottle on his desk and proceeded to wash his hands intently, working the sanitizer in with practiced ease, paying ex...
2022-10-07 23:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostI ignited my sword. Violet flame radiated from it, and the center grew red. “Bolster the first group with the rank-and-file.”
Maya stared at me, dumbfounded. “Help the well-organized contingent of men that isn’t struggling, while you get yourself killed aiding the second group? I don’t need your protect—“
...
2022-10-07 22:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Maya?” I shouted.
“Here!” A voice called back. A few yards away from me, Maya pushed herself to her feet, expression dazed, dress smeared with dirt and torn.
The aegis faded. After a brief look to make sure there was no immediate threat, I forced myself to disassociate from the chaos. Catalogue the damage.
Lord Erebus trailed behind me, doubt clouding his features. “The Everwood spans a great distance,...
2022-09-30 22:17:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only the two of us in his carriage, save a mute scribe that took down our every word.
For the most part, it felt like some sort of elaborate ruse. A cruel joke that could end the moment he decid...
2022-09-30 22:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostProblem was, I’d over-tap...
2022-09-30 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTHRUM
Bright. Brighter than the birth of the universe.
The crinkling fabric shredded through my ears like a sudden gale of wind. A metal saucer bearing, massive, far too large to be the utensil it resembled, forced its way in my mouth, cracking against my teeth. An overwhelming taste of vanilla radiated through ...
2022-09-30 21:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis was the homestretch.
I’d expected to cover the retreat, and was fully prepared to take a few more parting blows from Azure to sell the theater.
What I hadn’t expected was the Region’s reaction. I’d assumed they would cower in their apartments, waiting for the incessantly repetitive emergency message to fade....
2022-09-30 21:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostHow th...
2022-09-30 21:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy side st...
2022-09-22 23:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostFoster’s eyes darted back and forth. Finally, he seemed to decide. “We’re not here just to monitor you. Miles thought… he thought there was a chance someone might make an attempt on your life.”
“Someone?”
“My...
2022-09-22 23:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe went down to the converted racquetball court area. Foster went in before me, while Cook waited outside the door.
I observed them carefully. Other than Miles, I had very little experience with how high-level field agents operated. Cook seemed rusty, reflecting what Azure had told me. He hadn’t operated in this capacity in ...
2022-09-22 23:22:03 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for the delay. Posting the chapters for this week in bulk.
Ironic that I was beginning to finally think of it that way—as mine—now that I was on the verge of losing it, along with everything else.
There was a throbbing hum as Sae stepped through the portal behind me. ...
2022-09-22 23:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe camp had gone up quickly, wood from the forest efficiently felled and processed into defensive towers and strategically placed barricades. Tents of white and blue placed in uniform rows made up temporary barracks for the soldiers. Larger variations emblazoned with the banners of an eagle, bear, wolf, and panther surrounded the K...
2022-09-16 00:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostI needed to limit any distraction.
For the third time, I pressed my hand against the control crystal, forcing t...
2022-09-15 23:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post“What the fuck, Miles?” I asked. I didn’t have to manufacture the outrage.
“Do—” Waller started
I held...
2022-09-15 02:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe encounter with the SWA...
2022-09-15 02:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostTheir side of the room had something of a frustrated air, as if they were all waiting for a foregone conclusion. Even if the detractors weren’t entirely onboard, they’d toe the blue line if the majority decided to pull the trigger.
They were waiting for Miles.
Which ...
2022-09-15 02:56:09 +0000 UTC View PostI knelt in the center of the room and attempted to clear my mind of all distraction. The memory of Maya’s parting threatened to resurface, over and over. I bore down on it ruthlessly until there was nothing but a blank.
“Water coming down.” One of the servants warned. A second later, a frigid torrent flooded over me, soa...
2022-09-03 08:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post