Christine felt their approach not through anything like magic, but with her fledgeling vampire instincts. One moment, she felt the entire hospital as her unrestricted playing field, boxy corridors and chambers like catacombs and she the only spider, the only predator within. The next moment, wariness pressed at her fro...
2023-04-13 16:03:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Will Chloe burn up in sunlight?” Emily asked as they climbed up the exterior stairwell of the Westerlin.
They’d just used Chloe’s debit card to book them a room under Emily’s name, which was weird and bizarre and not something Emily could quite wrap her mind around. One couldn’t simply switch off a visceral hatred for...
2023-04-12 14:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostChristine wanted to let out a sigh of relief at the man’s departure, but there was no relief to be found. She felt sick with thirst now, those small expressions of power she had leveraged to cow the creeps into submission had completely hollowed out her inner reservoir. Instead of just a dry ache in the pit of her stomach and a painful parched...
2023-04-11 17:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post“By thhggh, by the Rules, the Masters have claim here,” Judas finally hissed out, eyes darting over towards the young man resting on hospital bed. “He’s one of ours. One of us.”
“I don’t think you know ‘the Rules’ as we do,” the young vampire sounded unamused.
His mind was racing. Even if 2023-04-08 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
“Mom,” Elena asked. “Do you ever think malls will go out of style? Shopping malls.”
“Hmm,” Mrs. Seelbaugh pondered, tapping the remote control against her chin. “Out of style?”
The Muppet Christmas Carol was playing on TV, and each successive group of comm...
2023-04-06 11:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Fresssh meat, fresh meat!” Chad hollered, slapping the hood of each parked car as they walked down the row. “How you wanna do this, faggot? Good cop, bad cop? Hell, how ‘bout we go in with the ‘yer a wizard, ‘arry.’ That’d be some top shelf shit, right there. Ain’t ‘xactly wrong, neither. Am I RIGHT?!”
Judas...
2023-04-02 22:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours later
“Fresssh meat, fresh meat!” Chad hollered, slapping the hood of each parked car as they walked down the row. “How you wanna do this, faggot? Good cop, bad cop? Hell, how ‘bout we go in with the ‘yer a wizard, ‘arry.’ That’d be some top shelf shit, right there. ...
2023-03-31 15:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Well dear, I have news but it isn’t good news, I’m afraid,” Mrs. William’s voice was tinny and small echoing out from the Macintire’s handset phone. “No luck on that record you were looking for, I’m afraid.”
“Oh, um,” Tabitha quirked her lip. “Evanescence? Thank you for trying. I did know it would...
2023-03-29 15:34:02 +0000 UTC View PostStephanie’s resolve was a flame guttering in rainstorm gales as the raw emotion of both Kelly and Emily crashed over her. She knew she couldn’t stay with them. Enduring the empathic trauma right now almost brought her to her knees in a complete breakdown—as much as she never wanted to part with them, it wasn’t a storm she could weather t...
2023-03-26 13:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Stay safe,” Stephanie sobbed, all but crushing Kelly and Emily in her hug this time. “Be careful, stay safe. Stay safe. Please. I love you.”
Christine watched dispassionately as the three girls held each other and cried, each terribly broken up about the whole ordeal. The taller Kelly g...
2023-03-24 14:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned back in Oct, the pledge tiers have been overhauled in a big way. I'd put off doing it month after month because I always felt like I was behind on writing, absolutely wanted to get them redone before second quarter.
I don't blame anyone for unpledging! I appreciate all of the support that's been given to me and completely un...
2023-03-23 14:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post/// The complete chapter 49. My new longest cha
2023-03-21 16:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe four Moore boys had plodded home through the cold from their bus stop together, weary from a school day but lapsing back and forth into serious discussion over what they wanted for Christmas. It was a difficult thing to talk about, because they wanted so many things, but basically already knew everything they would...
2023-03-18 15:21:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay. So; what do you think about Tabitha joining Art Club?” Alicia asked, leaning heavily across the scuffed glass counter.
“I’m all for it,” Casey shrugged. “Is she coming back to Springton High, though?”
Monday nights at Family Video were slow. Aside from a bit of midday activity that consisted mostly of people retu...
2023-03-02 18:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post“You didn’t open your other presents,” Hannah remarked, peeking over the lip of the bucket in Tabitha’s room. “Are they for Christmas?”
“No,” Tabitha admitted, turning from where she was laying on the bed. “They were for my birthday.”
Tabitha had been too quiet this morning, and Hannah once again felt like she was...
2023-02-20 21:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostOminous quiet filled the cab of his truck as it rumbled down the Springton roads and brought them back down the hill into their trailer park. Alan knew his wife was cross at him over the whole Tabitha and Lisa hoo-haw, but if he didn’t stand up for his sister-in-law, then who would? It rankled how Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Macintire were so quick...
2023-02-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLosing Brian, even temporarily, was bad enough—it was as if Kelly had been shown a glimmer of hope and then immediately had it snatched away. She’d only just really come to terms with having him in her life, of him becoming her rock, someone that she had deep feelings for, a guy she would openly admit to being in love with....
2023-02-10 18:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostTabitha carried the bucket into the Macintire house without more than a cursory glance at the other gifts resting inside. Mrs. Macintire hadn’t seen fit to comment on the bucket, and Tabitha didn’t want to go through and examine the presents her parents had chosen until she was in a better state of mind.
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2023-02-08 16:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostStephanie wanted to fold over, hugging her knees, and have a messy, sobbing breakdown.
The guilt and frustration roiling off of Kelly was so heavy it might as well have been distorting the air between them, and the way Emily was trapped within the suffocating confines of anger on one side and fear on the...
2023-02-06 16:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post“He’s back from CT scan, and it’s not as bad as it looked going in,” Officer Judy assured them. “He has an orbital fracture on the left side of his skull just beside his eye, but it didn’t look like there were any ruptures or serious damage to the actual eye. There was a little bit of bleeding there, and there was a...
2023-02-04 15:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe long drive back from Florence was quiet, wi
2023-01-31 11:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post// Picks up right after that pt A bit, this time. Sorry I can't post anything in order! My writing process bounces all over the place worrying away at sections until they hit the way I want them to, and stuff never finishes in order.
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2023-01-26 23:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe long drive back from Florence was quiet, with Tabitha conceding the Acura’s passenger seat to Elena so that she could sit in the backseat with Alicia and Hannah. The girls were all tired, and Hannah immediately leaned her head onto Tabitha’s arm and nodded off. Aside from a few softly spoken remarks, both of her friends...
2023-01-23 12:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Expect to see it start up sometime this year! Will keep everyone posted.
2023-01-18 15:28:53 +0000 UTC View Post/// Going to use lettering rather than numbering this time because these probably won't wind up as linear, sequential chapter segments. More likely to be iterative new versions of the same content that expand or extrapolate out from the same basic content, that's how a lot of complex conversations with 5+ participants wind up evolving as I work ...
2023-01-05 19:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostGot hit pretty bad by that winter storm, spent five days with insomnia / power outages / no running water / through some pretty extreme cold temperatures. Just got back above freezing today and arrived home from the grocery store (making one or two walks out there a day, no running water so can't use bathroom here unless just to pee) to discover...
2022-12-29 22:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostJoshua’s rented skates clunked across the la
2022-12-09 22:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post7 Months Ago
After Ashlee had herself a ‘clumsy accident’ in the first week of bouncing on their big new trampoline together with Erica and Brittany, their parents had instated the rule that only two girls were allowed up on the trampoline at once. For safety, of course. Ashlee’s protests h...
2022-12-06 19:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post“...Are you Chloe, or are you Christine?” the pink-haired girl asked.
“What the fuck is going on?” Christine demanded, holding up her hands and staring at them. “What’s happening to me?”
“How bad is Brian hurt?” Emily asked. “What happened?”
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2022-11-28 15:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re really on Tabs’ case about the whole time travel secret thing,” Alicia griped as she skated next to Elena. “But, like—it’s her story to tell, right? She can do what she wants.”
“Honestly?” Elena stared off into the distance. “I’m just getting real sick of it. It...
2022-11-24 19:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post