Part Six – “This Is Penance”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been the first dinner since she had arrived in New Eden without Andy at it, and that definitely changed the...
2023-10-22 22:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixteen
December 21st, 2020
Los Angeles around Christmastime was an odd place to be. Normally, everyone went home for the holidays, and it left Los Angeles a mostly empty area, because the old adage was that nobody was originally from Los Angeles – everyone had come from somewhere...
2023-10-20 07:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostI'm about halfway through QT2:16 right now and will have it either before I go to bed tonight, or sometime tomorrow midday. We've got Andy in LA! So I do want to get that right. We'll have a timeskip coming up relatively soon in the storyline, and as expected, QT2:20 will probably be the only QT2 2023-10-19 00:08:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With only a few weeks until the wedding, Kevin was so glad his responsibilities ended with attending the wedding. He’d offered to contribute as much or as little as Fatima wanted, but it turned out that when her father’s show had offered to pay for the wedding, they’d taken on more than a little bit ...
2023-10-17 00:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Garney – 3/11/2017 – Sunday – 05:35 am
“Christ,” Danny said to himself, looking on with binoculars as a mysterious figure left Max, disappeared behind the house and walked off into the underbrush around the house. “I knew something was odd when the cameras blinked off. Did they think we weren’t...
2023-10-12 10:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm doing my best to get through this, but some weeks, the muse is against you, and it's like pushing into the wind. I'll get through this Brewster's Brood release tonight before I crash, and will try and blast through Breakpoint as soon as I can, but it's been a weird week, with the weather doing all sorts of f...
2023-10-12 06:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostMan, literally nothing is where I left it. Heh. So Patreon sprung a redesign on us, and I'm still figuring out where everything's at. There's a "collections" feature which I'm going to try and fiddle with at some point over the next few days - I suspect it's just going to do what I've been doing with using tags to sort things, but it'll take a f...
2023-10-05 06:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostIntermission Three – Kai
December 20th, 2020 – Hamburg, Germany
The snow was lightly drifting down from the sky, and Kai Schumann stepped out from the Emilienstraßestation heading north, heading towards Weihnachtsmarkt Osterstraße, a broad smile on his face, three lovely women...
2023-10-05 01:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: The Devil In Me (Felicia)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
In the period of time between when Starfall arrived and when my next wife-to-bed was scheduled to arrive, I had to do very specific homework and make sure my ass was covered, because I knew with the next w...
2023-10-01 20:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, forming a perfect couple almost immediately. Ciara also seemed to take great delight in putting Nina into...
2023-10-01 20:17:41 +0000 UTC View PostPart Six – “This Is Penance”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been the first dinner since she’had arrived in New Eden without Andy at it, and that definitely changed t...
2023-10-01 06:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post(UPDATE: Apparently I didn't a
2023-10-01 06:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three – “Willful Manchild”
Here’s a bit of Bay Area trivia you probably don’t know – Treasure Island has a smaller island a couple of miles to the north of it. You won’t find it on any maps. In fact, none of the boats really know it’s there – they just sort of drift around it. It’s not a very bi...
2023-09-30 06:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two – “Goddamn Apples”
It wasn’t the first time I’d found myself in the checkout line of a Safeway a few hours after sunset with a bag of apples, a package of carrots and a bag of sugar cubes, and I was quite certain it wouldn’t be the last time either, despite the shady looks the art school dropout stu...
2023-09-28 06:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a pretty crazy week. Maybe you've heard? As such, there have been a shitload of day job meetings happening since word broke on Thursday that writers were probably going back to work....
2023-09-27 23:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
For the next several hours, Ali chatted me up with questions designed to fill in the one thing all the data about me couldn’t justifiably reveal – motive. It was the hardest thing for data analytics to fill in when it came to human understanding. It could often jump to common causality – that is to say that...
2023-09-27 00:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostBack from vacation, and California's on fire all over again. It's been a wild couple of days, with me having to provide a bunch of rides for friends to SFO, which has eaten up a ton of the last three days, as several of them either go out of vacation or taking surprise trips in an effort to get aware from the bad air of the Bay Area rig...
2023-09-21 05:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
When Will woke up, the first thing he felt were cold iron shackles around his wrists and ankles, but those weren’t the only bindings that he had. There were bands around his forearms, his biceps, his calves and his thighs. They were pulled tight, affixing him to a giant steel X. He’d been strippe...
2023-09-20 03:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
“You knew my father?” Will asked as the massive wall of a man sat down across from him in the Burger King booth. He was just a solid rectangle of flesh beneath the heavy cloth, and it made Will just a little bit nervous.
“Not knew, but know, young William,” Pavel said....
2023-09-20 03:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
November 2nd, 2020
The Monday following the party, Phil had gotten into the office extremely early, wanting to be around before the majority of people had rolled in. He wasn’t a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes he needed to be able to work when the staff was at the...
2023-09-19 08:43:54 +0000 UTC View PostSo it'll be pretty light this week, because I'm in the middle of vacation, writing this update on WiFi in a cabin at a resort lodge in the middle of the central north forest.
A few days left in the next poll, but the current leader is Amor Ex Machina, with CARP and Threadbinders a close second.
Not sure what I'll put out ...
2023-09-13 21:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nine
To call the planet where Cola’s daughter was incarcerated backwater would’ve been extremely generous. There were heavy duty automated ships and mining robots trafficking through the area, but actual people seemed to be scarce, which meant this was a corporate town, one with significant financial backing, d...
2023-09-11 14:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifteen
December 19th, 2020
Sleeping had been difficult, but before they’d crashed for the night, things had looked like they were stabilizing in New Zealand, even as disastrous as it was. Current estimations were that the New Zealand population would end up somewhere between 15-20% of what it had ...
2023-09-08 07:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe world is a crazy place. I'm in the back half of QT2:15 and will have that tomorrow afternoon. Friday or Saturday, Before The Storm won out the T4+ votes so it'll be the first You Decide! of the month.
Next week, I'll be on a family vacation, and I'm not entirely sure how reliable my internet access wil...
2023-09-07 06:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, forming a perfect couple almost immediately. Ciara also seemed to take great delight in putting Nina into...
2023-09-05 06:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Garney – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 10:47 pm
Danny ended the call and walked back towards the backyard deck where all the action was going on. They’d gotten Max into three different new partners over the last couple of hours, and now he was exhausted, but still willing to entertain people, listening to som...
2023-09-02 09:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostYou'd think I'd remember lessons I've learned before, but no, sometimes I still let writer's block get the better of me. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Brewster's Brood, and anticipate dropping that probably tomorrow. The next release after that will probably be Quaranteam 2:15, and I'm expecting ...
2023-08-30 23:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Note: I generally don’t do ‘content warnings,’ but I feel like in this one particular case, I need to make an exception. The following chapter is meant to be highly reminiscent of the events of 9/11/01, and as such, may provide a challenge for some readers. I’ve written this chapter spec...
2023-08-26 08:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis heat is brutal, my dudes.
That said, I also realized that sometimes writer's block means I should adapt and shift to other projects. I took a break and wrote the first 2k words of Neon Stonehenge 2 (released in Alpha form yesterday) before coming back and finishing Breakpoint 12 (rele...
2023-08-24 09:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two – “Goddamn Apples”
It wasn’t the first time I’d found myself in the checkout line of a Safeway a few hours after sunset with a bag of apples, a package of carrots and a bag of sugar cubes, and I was quite certain it wouldn’t be the last time either, despite the shady looks the art school dropout stu...
2023-08-24 01:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post