Mick
“Run me through it one more time,” Mick said to Rin, despite the fact that he was almost certain a third time hearing it wasn’t going to clarify matters any.
“You’re our technical specialist, Mick!” Rin was worked up, pacing back and forth constantly, as if the idea of sitting still made ...
2023-08-23 02:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post
NEON STONEHENGE
Book One of The Druid Gunslinger Legends
A Blake Conrad tale
Chapter One – “There Is No Beginning”
I’d fallen out a window and was somewhere between the 15th and 14th floors when I realized that this latest case I was mixed up in ...
2023-08-20 09:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ten
“Hello mother,” Tabitha said, looking across the room to lay eyes on her mother for the very first time.
The saying was ‘better than devil you know than the devil you don’t,’ but other than the facts that this woman was Lucifer and that she was Tabitha’s mother, she didn’t know much of anyth...
2023-08-18 08:00:08 +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....
2023-08-17 07:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
“What do you mean, ‘you want in?’”
“What the fuck do you think I mean, Will?” Dina said to him, amusement in her voice. “April’s made it clear that she and Lacey need help keeping your sexual impulses in check, because you’re a fucking animal in all the best ways. I can...
2023-08-17 07:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostSome weeks are better than others. I know things have been off this past week, and that's on me. Late last week, word came down the pipeline that a former coworker of mine had died, suddenly and quite unexpectedly. He wasn't much older than me, and reports are that it was a stroke. They also aren't sure how long he'd been dead when he'd been fou...
2023-08-16 23:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostThree days later, early in the morning, Miriam was out jogging on the beaches and found a leather wrapped package left for Kevin up behind some rocks, to prevent it from washing back out again. Inside was a large necklace made of some kind of seashells that Kevin couldn’t recognize along with a note in large,...
2023-08-16 10:16:10 +0000 UTC View Post
(Author’s Note: This will be the only publi
2023-08-11 07:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostLots to talk about that those of you not hanging around the Patreon may have missed. Lots of people have asked about writing spinoffs of Quaranteam and while there's some rules that have to be followed for me to give my blessing on them, I think all the rules are reasonable, and so does everyone who's working on them. But peopl...
2023-08-10 00:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post(Author's note: The attached PDF for this post is of Chapters 1 through 14, but includes several revisions to make the timeline flow together. I realized I did a lot of this work back with the edit pass of Book 1, but never released it publicly. Keep in mind, the dates at the top of each chapter are simply the date at the start of the chapte...
2023-08-05 09:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirteen
December 17th, 2020
The next morning, he was up earlier than most of the women were, something that caught him off-guard, but he found that Melody and Lexi were both up, although none of his fiancées were. He hopped through a quick shower then moved from the bedroom into the little foyer wh...
2023-08-03 10:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostWeird handful of days. Didn't have poker night because a couple of the guys I play with came down with Covid, so here's your free reminder that it's still out there and you should still exercise caution now and then.
I put out Before The Storm 8 yesterday, and QT2:13 will drop sometime tonight before I got...
2023-08-03 06:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
While Sketch had certainly spent plenty of time in highly populated systems before, this was the first time after coming out of the long chill that he would be able to get off his ship for more than a couple of minutes. The atmosphere was so unlike the sort of backwater remote outposts he’d spent most of th...
2023-08-02 00:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostLen
He very much wasn’t looking forward to the conversation he had to have with Mira, but he also knew that the longer he tried to avoid it, the more it was going to suck for him. Fundamentally, he knew that he had to try and talk her into getting off the island, but he knew exactly how she was going to react...
2023-07-29 05:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostUgh, this was not where I wanted to be at with this stage of the week, but here we are. So, to give a short version of a long story, Friday I went out to dinner with some folks who were in town. They'd heard from a mutual friend about a restaurant (which will remain nameless) so we all agreed to try it. Come Saturday morning, all six of...
2023-07-26 22:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostPart Four – “You and me”
December 11th, 2020
They were on their break walking around the basement when Aisling dropped a bombshell on Fiona. “I take it the next part of your story’s going to be about Lauren,” Fiona said as they stopped to pet Muninn, who’d begrudgingly settled down long enough ...
2023-07-23 06:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostNews flash: It's fucking hot.
That should come as a shock to no one. But I'll manage, just with fans running at full, doing what I can to stay cool.
The reaction to moving all commissioned content to follow the pattern for how I'm doing the Blake Conrad stuff, where it'll be out for Tier 3 and up a month before it's available to all ...
2023-07-20 01:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostPart Six – Sophomore Year, Spring Semester
By the time the spring rolled around, things were already feeling both on total lockdown and completely spiraling out of control. I was blazing through my classes and felt like I was being challenged but also rewarded. The classwork wasn’t so much that it was out of control, b...
2023-07-20 00:07:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twelve
December 16th, 2020
A few hours with Mama Rook had put everyone a little more back at ease, although Ash had immediately commented on how Andy had gone straight for getting a drink, when he was known to dabble with drinking alcohol only occasionally. He’d asked for a Coke with a heavy splash...
2023-07-17 10:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostKelly Coleman – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 8:28 pm
Coming out of the bedroom, Kelly felt her head was spinning, but there was something wild and exciting about all of it that she hadn’t anticipated. She’d come into this whole thing with a clear cut game plan and somewhere along the way, the plan had been jetti...
2023-07-15 06:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostHow I'm going to release commissions moving forward: this one will be out for all patrons next month, and publicly 6 months after that.
Chapter Six
“What do you mean, ‘you want in?’”
“What the fuck do you think I mean, Will?” Dina said to him, amusement in her voic...
2023-07-14 08:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostNEON STONEHENGE
Book One of The Druid Gunslinger Legends
A Blake Conrad tale
Chapter One – “There Is No Beginning”
I’d fallen out a window and was somewhere between the 15th and 14th floors when I realized that this latest case I was mixed up in ...
2023-07-12 22:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostAll sorts of fun things to talk about this week. First and foremost, the next thing coming is a Brewster's Brood chapter, but it's probably going to be tomorrow. I'm doing some foundational work with the story, sort of mapping where I think things are going for the next bit, which means a lot of writing and rewriting, building s...
2023-07-12 22:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eleven
December 16th, 2020
Andy hadn’t had the heart to tell any of the girls when they’d crashed the night before that they weren’t technically sleeping in his home state of Ohio. In her effort to avoid them staying at a place with Covington in the name, Niko had missed that the Embas...
2023-07-09 23:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: Cheeky Chappy (Ciara/Nina)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
It sounded so good, didn’t it? Beating the Secret Six, having two epic victories under my belt, and six beautiful women scheduled to get married to me, but there were two things I didn’t really take i...
2023-07-06 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo, hundred-degree temperatures blow, but thankfully it's cooled back down a bit here. I just got the latest part of Breakpoint up and I'll post the second part of The Fertile Grove here today as well, while I'm working on the next part of that for that story's commissioner, and you can see where it's starting t...
2023-07-05 22:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostHarry
It had been two days since Calisto had died and Stella had not, and during that entire time, the two of them had barely spoken at all. The information that Stella had killed his only brother was still lingering in the air between them, as was Management’s taunting last message that Harry had never had a ch...
2023-07-05 21:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostPart Three – “Don’t Break Him”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona and Ash took a walk around the lower floor of the house, the two of them stretching out, even taking a few minutes to jump on the trampoline in the large playroom. The basement floor was still the least active of the three floors, but over the ...
2023-06-30 02:11:09 +0000 UTC View PostIntermission Two – Billy
December 16th, 2020 – Athens, Georgia
William “Billy” Monteiro was on the verge of losing his goddamn mind. In the spring of 2020, most of the students of the University of Georgia had been sent home, and the college temporarily shuttered to try and ...
2023-06-29 07:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostI'm nearing completion on QT2:10.5 and will have that up before I go to bed tonight, but I thought I'd swing by and give everyone an update on how things are looking for everything. I'm banging out commissions this week, so I've got a couple left, which means expect new chapters in some of those over the next week or so (Fertile Grove, Q...
2023-06-29 03:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post