Chapter Nine
With four women down, Tabitha was over halfway through the challenge, and while so far it had felt like some of them had been trickier than others, the entire ordeal had also somehow been less difficult than she’d expected it be when she’d started. That could only mean that there were much more herculean t...
2023-06-26 07:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostMax Brewster – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 6:48 pm
The last few hours had been somewhat overwhelming for Max, but he liked to think he’d handled himself somewhat well, despite the intense amount of pressure there seemed to be on him to perform sexually. Still, he felt like he’d availed himself decently, having orga...
2023-06-26 00:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
Arkady kept having dreams.
Of people he’d failed, those whose souls he’d been forced to commit to eternal destruction, unable to release their souls in any other way beyond the cruelest of form, the only one available to him, all other options exhausted and his path chosen, inescapable, like gravity...
2023-06-22 10:18:41 +0000 UTC View PostFriends, am I right?
So let's skip back to a little over a week ago. A very good artist friend of mine (whom I've collaborated with before in DayJobStuff, and have an upcoming collaboration in the works with now) calls me up and says, "Hey I need a favor. I had someone bail on me last minute. Can you come out and man the vendor part of my ...
2023-06-22 01:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo just a heads up - story updates for the next couple of weeks will be coming at erratic times, but I'm going to try and see how I can push through. I have some work to do over the weekend that's timed (and isn't even really writing based) that's going to tie up most of my weekend, so I'm going to do what I can to squeeze in writing time whenev...
2023-06-15 00:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five
Will still wasn’t entirely sure how they’d talked him into this, but both Lacey and April had convinced themselves that Dr. Dina Getschmann would be throwing herself at him within a matter of weeks. He wanted to argue that the entire idea was absurd, but the last several months had taught him that...
2023-06-12 22:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ten
December 15th, 2020
“Andy, we need you to get up,” Niko’s voice said to him, pulling him from his slumber. “We may have a problem.”
He never liked to hear that, especially as he was waking up, but he knew trying to go back to sleep and ignore the problem would probably only make t...
2023-06-11 01:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostLesson learned: I shouldn't go six months between chapters of anything. It took quite a while to get back into the Threadbinders voice, so I'm going to make sure that if it gets to a point where we haven't touched something in six months, I'm just going to do another chapter of it, which means I'm going to try to do cha...
2023-06-07 21:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo I put together an archive Zip file that should give you all the content that's been posted here for the Tier 2s and up as PDFs, including the full book versions of QTB1 and the novel, Nothing Beats Rock, that I recently gave away for free, as well as basically all the PDFs I think I have to bring you current on everything we've got.
... 2023-06-07 19:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
They were somewhere over the Nomadic Sea when Sophia decided to approach Yasha. “Have… have I done something to offend Arkady?” the human asked the elf, trepidation in her voice. The dwarf was asleep in the back of the chamber atop Quiesh as they flew through the moonlight. “He’s been… a little curt...
2023-06-07 01:13:52 +0000 UTC View PostNo! I'm not still crying over the Ted Lasso finale, you're still crying! (Okay, maybe I am still crying. Goddamn that landed hard.)
Seems like people really liked our first chapter of Amor Ex Machina, and while I do imagine that story has a set number of chapters ahead of it, I wasn't comfortable calling my ...
2023-06-01 04:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostPart Two – “This guy”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona realized as soon as she stood up that she desperately needed the five-minute break to let her muscles work out their kinks, to get her body moving again and get her blood pumping. Her left leg had practically fallen asleep having to hold the same pose for...
2023-05-31 00:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostSo here's the poll for June's profile choice. Mali had already been done, so Sarah, who finished second, got the profile instead. Now, that means THIS poll should have nobody who's already gotten one. (I hope!)
2023-05-29 22:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostAmor Ex Machina
A Devin McTaggart story
Chapter I
Nobody likes going to funerals, but it’s especially hard when the person whose funeral it is was a lot younger than you when they die. Mustafa Jacobson was only 32 when he died, but he’d affected quite the collection of people in hi...
2023-05-29 07:16:34 +0000 UTC View PostMick
There were a lot of things Mick had been prepared for when Len had come to him and pitched the gig of them finding and breaking this mystical, mythical island prison for spies and covert operatives, but to find his wife, alive and unharmed, certainly wasn’t one of them.
Len had wanted to wait until t...
2023-05-27 03:55:56 +0000 UTC View PostHow's your week been going? Pretty good? Me? Oh, the usual chaos and carnage, but it's all good. I went and saw Fast X over the weekend with a friend of mine that I've seen the last five with (6, 7, 8, Hobbs & Shaw, and 9) and, well, I really wanted to like it, but it mostly felt like a cove...
2023-05-24 23:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nine
December 14th, 2020
When he woke up in the morning, he was surprised to find that nearly everybody but him had been up for at least an hour with one exception, as dear Emily had wrapped her arms around him in the middle of the night and snuggled in against him as hard as she could, not letting g...
2023-05-21 06:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostMax Brewster – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 2:37 pm
“Okay,” Max thought to himself. “This is starting to get ridiculous.” He’d just basically hooked up with yet another woman completely outside of his league, and if he hadn’t been suspicious before, now he was starting to really wonder what the hell was...
2023-05-19 00:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully everyone's been enjoying the free novel I released last week, Nothing Beats Rock. Some people have asked if I'd be interested in revisiting that world, and for those of you who have finished it (no spoilers!), obviously I left my...
2023-05-17 22:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
Despite how overwhelming it had been at first, Sketch found the feeling of being back around people extremely comforting. He gotten so used to just spending all his time on The Praeteritus that getting accustomed to random sounds happening suddenly around him again had required some adjustments, but ...
2023-05-14 06:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostWell, the counter says it's 500, and while I'm sure the number will probably drop back below that once the month ends, it's still quite the sizable marker, and deserves to be celebrated. The next chapter of Before The Storm will drop either tonight or tomorrow, but until then, this should keep everyone busy for a bit. ;)
A...
2023-05-13 01:27:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis won't be a long one, because I don't want to just write the word "FUCK!" 500 times, but you still deserve to know what's going on. So, in addition to all the other stuff with DayJob(tm), Windows Update decided to reboot my writing machine early this morning without asking me, and in doing so, killed the nearly finished chapter of Be...
2023-05-10 20:37:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
Although she could’ve just tried to lean forward and invite Emily over, it seemed more polite to go over from their box to her box next door, as if they were keeping a formal meeting appointment, which they were. Just as Veronica was about to knock on the door to the suite, it opened and a familiar face met...
2023-05-06 01:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis happened.
https://twitter.com/jonrog1/status/1653291358562684929?s=20
FWIW, I stand with the WGA, and if you're at all wondering what writers are on strike about, you can read loads about it, but thank you to our SAG-AFTRA brethre...
2023-05-04 01:16:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
December 13th, 2020
They were wheels up a little after five, just around sunset, so they got a gorgeous view of the city sprawling out beneath them, Oakland and the Bay itself just behind them as they started their 2500+ mile flight. Andy had never flown in something so small before, and it fel...
2023-05-03 21:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostAttached is the profile for Nicolette for April. Who'd you like to see a profile of for May? You've got a week or so to decide. This time I'll try and not include anybody I've already done a profile on in the options. Ha ha!
2023-05-01 22:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostQuaranteam: Aisling’s Antics
a 10-part commissioned spin off from Quaranteam
Part One – “Pogue Mahone”
December 11th, 2020
Most times, brunches were joyous affairs and a chance for everyone to get caught up on what they’d been up to for the last day or two, but this mor...
2023-05-01 06:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostPart Five – Sophomore Year, Fall Semester
Whatever I expected out of my sophomore year, that isn’t at all what happened. Between the events of the fall and the events of the spring, I started to learn just how much not only I was changing but my outlook and perception on life itself was changing.
I’ve mentioned...
2023-04-29 22:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostMax Brewster – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 10:42 am
It was remarkable how much better Max felt after a long night’s sleep. He hadn’t realized how happy he was when it started raining the night before, forcing them to close up shop long before they normally would, but the last several days had been so overwhel...
2023-04-28 07:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo stuff that may or may not be tied to DayJob life has continued to be severely complicating my week, and I can only apologize for that. I'm hoping to have the first of two Brewster's Brood chapters up late tonight, but it might well be tomorrow. I'm going to try and get a second one out this month, but I still need to do the c...
2023-04-27 01:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post