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Brewing Bad Ch. 66

Next week I will do a bonus chapter which will give you the last two chapters of Book 1. I'm almost a dozen chapters into book 2 now, and pretty pleased on how it's coming out.

Ch. 66 - Blue Wedding (part 2)

As the group sat there and worked their way through the courses in that large, cramped dining room, th...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 164-165

Ch. 164 - Soon

“This is what I wanted to show you,” Jordan said finally, unwrapping the dirty cloth that covered the manacle that he’d kept hidden for so long and showing it to Taz for the first time. 

The archmage didn’t look at the cursed thing, though. Instead, he simply stared deeper into Jordan’...

Death After Death Ch. 131-132

Ch. 131 - Building a Legend

The first thing Simon did was escort the survivors to the nearest village. He left his mule there with them, along with most of his supplies, because it would only slow him down. It was only once they were safe that was handled, that he followed the centaur’s tracks back to see where they’...

Brewing Bad Ch. 65

Ch. 65 - Blue Wedding

The next few days were packed with preparations around the manor and the rest of the grounds, but Lucas did his best to ignore them. He only had a couple of things to do before the big day, and the hardest one of those by far was to pretend he was happy about this strange turn of events. He welcomed t...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 162-163

Ch. 162 - Awakening the Wolf

The battle lasted all day, and it wasn’t even clear until almost evening that Tenebroum’s forces would win. At this point, the outcome of the war was not in doubt, even if this desperate battle still hung in the balance. In the broadest sense, it wouldn’t matter if it took one ba...

Death After Death Ch. 129-130

Ch. 129 - Letting it Simmer

Simon was forced to live with the information that everyone in the north, probably even as far south as Slany, knew of him as the villain for months, and it ate at him. All through the cold winter and into the spring, when there was a sudden uptick in the number of people afflicted with the we...

Brewing Bad Ch. 63-64

Another bonus chapter. I've been doing a lot of writing lately because I've been inspired, so feel free to do a lot of reading! The next one will be in a few weeks when we get to... Well, you'll see.

Ch. 63 - This Changes Nothing

 The next morning, when Lucas sat down to talk with everyone else about w...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 160-161

Ch. 160 - Foreign Gods

The voice had known that Tanda was going to be wealthy before she’d ever set sail on this voyage. The northern trade routes were well known for luxuries that were very nearly unheard of in the South. Even her time spent off the coast, watching the city night after night, had not prepared her for th...

Death After Death Ch. 127-128

Ch. 127 - Complications

After that, Everything was a mess. He drew his sword, but only so that he could parry whatever was coming next. His Freya or not, he had no interest in striking her down, even though he was fairly certain he could without too much trouble. He didn’t even want to hurt the other members of the But...

Brewing Bad Ch. 62

Ch. 62 - Thriving

“If you can charge whatever you want, then you should be charging fifty dragons!” Hura’gh declared loudly while they were out chopping wood for the cider house fireplace and still one evening. 

The stairs to the basement were hidden behind the woodpile out back, and the weather was gett...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 158-159

Ch. 158 - The Undiscovered Land

When she traveled downstream for the last time, it was a languid affair, but Oroza no longer had the strength to swim. At this point, she barely had the strength to hold herself together as the emaciated shell of the river dragon she was. Even time spent among the ice at the peak of the mo...

Death After Death Ch. 125-126

Ch. 125 - The Way North

That morning, he went down to breakfast early to make sure he didn’t miss an opportunity, so he was still working his way through a mug of watered-down beer and a plate of biscuits and sausages half drowned in a peppered gravy when the other mercenaries came down. The gossip about last night sta...

Another Year around the Sun

Hello everyone. Tomorow is my birthday and I want to thank you all for helping to make this last year a good one. I was hoping I would have a completed version of Tenebroum to shill to everyone by this point, but that's still in Limbo as the publisher works out if/how they are doing audio. I won't bore you with those details.

Instead, I wa...

Brewing Bad Ch. 60-61

Another bonus chapter... because I can! No, seriously, I completed the ending for Book 1 last night, and started on book 2 and feel like celebrating in my own small way. How far in the future is it? Well, it's not long now... Less than 10 chapters to go.

Ch. 60 - Happily Ever After

 Lucas did not like...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 156-157

Ch. 156 - Widening Gyre

Once the Tenebroum’s forces had been pushed out of the valley that sheltered the dead city of Abenend on its third assault, it had never managed to get an agent close enough to investigate again. This wasn’t due to any ineptitude on the part of its servants, though. It was because of the talen...

Death After Death Ch. 123-124

Ch. 123 - Routine

What should I have done differently? That was Simon’s first thought when he felt himself return to life on his lumpy bed in the cabin before he even opened his eyes. 

It had been a great run. In many ways it had been his best run ever, but the ending left him feeling unsatisfied, n...

Brewing Bad Ch. 59

Ch. 59 - Through the Fire

Lucas remembered very little of the next few days. He woke up briefly, at random. It was just enough to know he was still alive, but most of the time, it wasn’t enough to figure out much else. 

He was still hurt bad, Adin was still trying to take care of him, and eventually, he saw ...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 154-155

Ch. 154- Unrecognizable

 Niama. That was the only word that they clung to as they were trapped in the Lich’s dark garden. Niama will save us, each of them whispered to each other, like the frightened sisters they were. 

No one was coming to save them, though. Only Lunaris tried to visit them th...

Death After Death Ch. 120-122

Bonus chapter for my dear Death After Death readers. I hope you enjoy it!

Ch. 120 - Round Two

Simon spent the next six months the same way. Every morning, he drank three helmets of water and caught something with a crude spear from the jetty while he still had the energy to do so. Then, he would fill his clay pot w...

Welcome Home

Hello everyone. After a few weeks on the road, I am back. I had some things in America that I needed to take care of and took the opportunity to visit a few people I hadn't seen in years. It was nice, except for all the coughing.

I was sick after the first flight, and though that quickly faded into the low-grade allergies of springtime in...

Brewing Bad Ch. 57-58

Alright, as celebration for my home coming, another bonus chapter of Brewing Bad. And not just because I need one of Lucas's healing potions in the worst way.

Ch. 57 - Roughing It (part 2)

Lucas had been expecting Kar’gandin to send someone with supplies, so he wasn’t surprised when he saw the mule emer...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 152-153

Ch. 152 - A Long Time Coming

At dusk Jordan received an invitation to dine with the man that the villagers called the Wise One, or more commonly, Tazuranth, the Great and Powerful. This struck Jordan as a little ostentatious, but then there were many Mage Lords at the Magica Collegium that insisted on such pomp as well.&...

Death After Death Ch. 118-119

Ch. 118 - Fighting Fire With Fire

“Nothing ends without bloodshed,” one man said, older than the rest. “Well, bloodshed or fire…”

The guy probably thought that he was being clever, but even as he shouted “Meiren” and used the word of fire to launch a barrage of flames at Simon, he was...

Brewing Bad Ch. 56

Ch. 56 - Roughing It

That night, Lucas took the watch because he didn’t trust Adin to stay awake all night. They lit a low fire just inside the treeline, and they didn’t even put up the tarp because the weather was nice, and making camp in the dark was miserable. 

Instead, they just suffered through it, an...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 150-151

Ch. 150 - Sanctuary

 The first day that Jordan had helped his charges travel east after first traveling to the west, he felt like a moron. Even knowing that something greater was at work, he felt like he’d immediately regret his decision to leave his childhood home. That didn’t change as the house that had alway...

Death After Death Ch. 116-117

Ch. 116 - Digging up the Past

Simon did some further exploring on the deeper level of the tomb. He would a few inscriptions that talked about holding back the tide, and one said they would rise again to once more protect their homeland if it was ever threatened again. Unfortunately, there was no indication as to what they�...

Brewing Bad Ch. 54-55

Ch. 54 - What Now?

He found the three of them, along with a few other toughs and laborers, in the cider house. It was obvious that everyone knew that something had happened, but they had no idea what. 

“Alright boys, drop what you’re doing and go grab some dinner,” Lucas said. “We’ll let you know if ...

Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 148-149

Ch. 148 - The Dark Garden

Even as it planned the assault and set its forge ghasts and its hammer weights to crafting magic resistant weapons and armor from the bones and armor of long dead dwarves, it turned its mind back toward more important tasks. When night next fell, it soared halfway across its domain from Rahkin t...

Death After Death Ch. 114-115

Ch. 114 - Beneath it All

The following day Simon felt like shit. This wasn’t just because the life energy he’d stolen from the would-be thief had faded to some degree. It was also because he’d done it at all. He was definitely looking and feeling better than before he’d dropped a nuke on the graveyard, but he was s...

Brewing Bad Ch. 53

Only one chapter this week. I plan on doing another bonus chapter next week or the week after.

Ch. 53 - Collateral Damage

Lucas thought about a lot of things on the way back. He thought about the messenger services. The Back Alley Whisperers had gotten into their business two times. Both were right after th...