A/N: I apologize for this delay. I had a cash crunch, people coming in do rebuild my house, some work pressure and other things besides. I really, really appreciate your continued support for Smol. <3 Y'all are why I keep doing this, and I truly to love u.
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A half-dozen curious faces peered down ...
Sreshec’s work room hung suspended over Gentle Expanse, the blue-green world hanging like a chandelier in the glass observatory. She liked to work at the “bottom” of the station-resort she owned, partly because the views were usually uncluttered, partly because the “top” had the sameviews but you could charge 10x to put a clie...
2022-02-11 03:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Elder” Ti’miquek - who mused that he could now actually carry that title if he really wanted to get a senior’s discount at the supermarket - chirped softly as he waited for his youngest hatchling to respond to him. After decades of serving his local community, he knew enough not to trust little-needs-protectings when they were in such a...
2022-01-28 02:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostWell howdy everyone! We are back to a brand new book of Smol, which takes us back to Gentle Expanse! There's gonna be laughter, surprise, suspense, betrayal, intrigue, and everyone's favorite emotion: vindictive knife-twisting pettiness.
It's one of the smollest emotions in the galaxy!
Also side-author's not...
2022-01-14 03:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post... it's a christmas movie! So here's a christmas oneshot!
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Michael ‘Mick’ Valleris was a born pioneer, a likely lad who faced the unknown with a human’s typical and somewhat mis-placed confidence. He needed that attitude, since he was one of the very first humans to be stationed onboard a Karnakian ship. T...
Hey everyone! Hope y'all are doing well! I wanted to give you an update on all the good stuff that's going on, so you can start the hype train rollin'.
First, THE BOOK. It's going to be a re-write of Arc 1, the self-named They are Smol - but that's not all. It's going to be about 2x the length, wi...
2021-12-06 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHsh'narat'nth ducked in her (relatively small) hood in against herself as she made her way amongst the throngs of warmcuddles about her. This entire outing, not to mention even setting her tail on this world went against every single one of her instincts; while she was very much what most termed a ‘cold-climate’ Jornissian, her natu...
2021-12-06 03:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostI still haven't forgotten about the other vote. It'll be a one-shot, don't worry.
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more than one kink in the story. If it doesn't flow, it won't be...
2021-11-19 00:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
not too big, not too small, but just right.
2021-11-09 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAt every fast food joint, no matter how far into the future you go, there’s always a secret menu. Corporate will never acknowledge it, regional will attempt to tamp it down, but if you go to the fun fast food joints that have lax management and say the secret words, you’ll get the best bad food your money can buy. These could be bur...
2021-11-06 05:07:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! We're kicking off the podcast series again, y'all. <3
2021-10-27 13:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh hey now what’s all this then there, bud?”
The secret is, of course, that Mike Callaway already knew exactly what was going on. As soon as the main doors opened up to Rec Room 12-B and he had a good look around, he pieced together the exact type of shenanigan that was unfolding before him. It wasn’t his first rodeo, and...
2021-10-22 01:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostRrsn’sspri was content, if not a bit bored. The older Jornissian mechanic had finished the first half of his shift, which now consisted of curious younglings asking him a bunch of questions about ‘saving a warm-cuddle’ and ‘going on adventures’, to which he responded in the appropriate half-truths of a father who knew just wha...
2021-10-15 04:40:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe holding cell was a glorified aluminum box. It was machine-brushed metal on all sides, with heavy sealed doors on either end, and it screamed “transitory”: There were no chairs, no beds, desks, water sources, heat sources - nothing. Brains hummed to herself as she studied her pen - the lights were recessed into the floor, ceiling...
2021-10-08 04:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostExploration can be just as much about explaining weird phenomena as it is about finding the weird stuff in the first place. As it turns out, we humans have two such interesting and unexplained worlds right in our own solar system; as a bonus, both orbit the same ringed gas giant. One is Saturn’s large moon Iapteus, with its peculiar ridge runn...
2021-10-01 21:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Well I hope y'all enjoyed Book 5 of the smol series. There's going to be some epilogue chapters, some more bleppy love, and some loose ends tied up really nice for some feel good feels.
After that, what with it being holiday season, we'll probably swing over to Zephyr Station 8 again and see how they're...
2021-10-01 15:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostStart to finish, when it was all said and done, the entire adventure- as Nate would call it - took around a week. For humans in general, a week is both incredibly long and very short, but for people who lived over a millenia, a week sometimes felt like a day. The Jornissian who sat against the cool nickel-iron wall reflected on...
2021-10-01 04:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey.”
SP03 twitched lightly in their suit as the unknown, unfamiliar voice broke into their chanting. As the voice was not joining in with the chanting, and was not an infidel who was being destroyed for the New World Order, it was promptly ignored.
“Hey! Listen!”
SP03 frowned, somehow harder than normal, as h...
2021-09-17 04:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn most movies whenever there’s a military anything going on, the camera usually pans around a war room, all the top brass wearing concerned or thoughtful expressions. Suddenly, data starts pouring in on futuristic blue screens (of course they’re blue cause they’re the good guys) and they start making snap judgmen...
2021-09-03 03:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! We're picking up where we left off, and we're gonna get it out to you early too!
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more than one kink in the story. If it doesn't flow, it won'...
2021-08-30 22:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostKill Team Spite blocked the corridor with their bodies, #09SP and #04SP standing ramrod straight before an unsuspecting door behind the body-shield wall of their brethren. It was the fourth stop down the long hallway, and those who were innocent - or scared witless - had long since departed for greener pastures as the shooting drew closer. For K...
2021-08-27 05:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was called The Battle Bus.
Everyone hated the name. I don’t mean “only those who designed on the Kinetic Mid-Impact Boarding Platform Mk.IV”, I don’t mean the engineers and mechanics who kept it up - I mean, everyone hated it, including the soldiers on it and the commanding officers who know of the colloquial n...
2021-08-13 05:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostSpace Exploration!
That’s a phrase that brings up a lot of imagery, right? You imagine Neil and Buzz, two of the OG steely-eyed missile men, looking out the window of the ‘Eagle’ and realizing that their computer is steering them right into a boulder field and they need to take manual control. You could also picture Kirk and company ...
2021-08-10 14:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone.
I know it's been an unusually long time between chapters, and there's been some stumbling of getting smol out on time. One thing that I don't like to do is... really start drama, cause like, creator drama is some bullshit and can get a life of it's own.
That being said, however, I uh. Kind of accidentally poiso...
2021-08-06 04:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I know, it's very last minute, but I did not forget about the lewd for this month! We've had a lot of things going on, so, it's gud.
Rember new thing: For Optional Kinks, vote on the one(s) you would like to see and we'll try to incorporate them into the story. There can be more th...
2021-07-27 14:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
They say there’s no honor among thieves.
That is, of course, a gross oversimplification, and not totally correct. Sure, thieves do not fight for King or Country or for any greater good than their own selves. The fight for self-determination, however, does have some nobility to it - and anyone who’s ever paid t...
2021-07-21 05:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Daydreaming can give you the same dopamine hit as actually doing the thing you thot about.
So how do you fall in love with - and execute on - the process that gets you from here to there?
2021-07-20 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe two old station workers sat, rambling to each other during their third hour of a 15 minute lunch.
“[And then they broke down my door!]” Rrsn’sspri said, raising his arms in a big sweeping motion. “[And I thought someone was going to steal that little guy, so I pulled out my old service pistol and-]”
A grey’d muzzle Do...
2021-07-14 06:10:37 +0000 UTC View Post.... I hate that name.
ANYWAY. I know this is a bit of a divorce from what you usually get from me, but I'm trying my best to make Smol my main job. Part of doing that - of growing something from a side-project into a main business - is to know your audience and know more about the people who support you.
I've put together...
2021-07-12 20:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostIMPROVISE. ADAPT. OVERCOME.
Nate leapt off of Bleppy, his friend recoiling from the flash of light and the cacophony of sound that his suit systems so helpfully filtered out from his helmet. The unfortunate but apparent truth is that his homemade grenades were little more than flashbangs - if that was due to an underwhelmi...
2021-07-07 04:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post