Rooibos Chai

A Little Bit of Everything (short story)

New story complete - to be posted on Scribblehub relatively soon!

So I actually wrote a good chunk of this story six months ago, based on a tossed-off joke by the inimitable blake1 (support her stories here!!: https://www.patreon.com/c/blake1/ )
2025-03-17 17:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Xmas Story

Hey everyone! Merry Christmas!

So if you've been following me for a while, you know that every year I do a Secret Santa story exchange thing, and typically publish my story as a part of a bundle. This year... I missed the bundle, lol. But here it is:
https://itch.io/b/2807/stwl-p...

Checking in (July 2024)

Hey everyone,

Regrettably, I don't have much in the way of progress for you. I've had some frustrating health issues (that I hope are maybe getting better now), and have been pretty firmly stuck on TDB. I figured I might talk a bit about that though, maybe sort out my thoughts.

(CW for discussion of depiction of acute transphobia below)

As you're probably aware, my rewriting a...

TDB Check-in (1-27)

Hey everyone!

Don't have that much new for you, but wanted to let you know how things are going. I've more or less got my edits done for what will now be chapters 1-27, which takes us through the end of the presentation. All of that is available in the linked document, and this corresponds to the original chapters 1-24. The most recent edited chapters don't have a lot fundamental...

Teenage Dirtbag edits (11-14)

Hiii all,

Progress is continuing, and going well! I know this looks like only four chapters of edits, but it actually includes effectively 2 1/2 entirely new chapters within that, like over 7000 words of added content! I've put them in the same file as before, so take a look to see even more of Josie being stupid (affectionate) and accidentally helping people out.

This is meant to f...

Teenage Dirtbag 1-10 revised w/ new

Hey all!

As mentioned, I've been re-editing the beginning of this story, as I always felt like it was kind of the weaker part of it, and not everything fit with the later elements that I thought of as I went. This wound up including quite a bit of new stuff, with some extra parts added in the first couple of chapters, as well as effectively 2 new chapters near the end (8-9ish). I'm really...

Kiss & Tell

Hey everyone! I had a weird idea get stuck in my head over the weekend, and sat down for a few hours, and wrote a short story. So here you go: a 3600 word sapphic short story about schoolgirls and secrets.

Not sure how good and/or complete this feels, lol. Despite some elements of the ending, this is all there is, and I don't plan on there being more; just kind of an exploration of some c...

Progress Update 1/31/24

Hey everyone!

Just want to check in and let you know what I've been working on this month. My current focus is on Teenage Dirtbag, which I really dearly want to finish, but which has been lingering for a while and feels difficult to wrap up in a satisfying manner. In order to hopefully address some of the murky things that feel like they're getting in the way and blocking me on...

Secret Santa Bundle 2024

Hey everyone! We've just released the bundle for this year for the Secret Santa thing, which Chosen Family Tree was written for. There's some really good stories in here, and it's a great opportunity to support thirty different trans authors.

I've not had the chance to read everything yet (in total, there are more words among all these stories than in Moby Dick, lmao), but here are some h...

Chosen Family Tree (Secret Santa 2023 Story)

It's fully done now! And wow it turned out to be longer than expected...

Fun fact: this story has more words in it than John Steinbeck's acclaimed novella, Of Mice and Men. However, if you're going to read a story about the Great Depression, I'd like to note that mine has girls in it who kiss. So, y'know, do with that information as you will.

This story will be part of an itch.io bu...

WIP - Secret Santa Story 2023

NOTE: I don't think any of my followers here are, but if you're someone from the Lair who's participating in the event, please don't read this story!

Doing this a bit early this year... I've always found the yearly secret santa prompt exchange event on the private writing server I'm on to be a good way to get me to write (because I struggle to commit to finishing things, as I'm sure you'r...

WIP - Wrecked

Okay! Here is an in-progress draft of the story I've been working on, please read this whole post for some discussion about the circumstances and stuff:

My intention was to have this done a week ago, as it was originally written as part of a bundle thing with some writer friends. When thinking about this story idea, I got the thought to do it as a sort of interactive game-like thing... T...

Quick Update

I know I've been a bit quiet recently, but actually, I've had a really nice burst of creativity! I'm working very hard right now to put together a little something for a prompt/bundle that some friends and fellow authors are doing, and... Well, if it all comes together, I think people are going to find the result really interesting. In particular, I'm dealing with a hard deadline of Se...

Teenage Dirtbag ch. 30

Just like I promised! :)

Hopefully this all works well enough, because the latter half of this chapter is kind of an important moment that I've been wanting to make sure I included, but couldn't quite figure out how to fit in until here.

Can't promise the next chapter quiiite as quickly, but I'm working on it!

Teenage Dirtbag Ch. 29

As always, thanks for your patience. :)

Next chapter will be posted on Thursday. No, that's not a joke either. :) :)

Pausing for Another Month

Still having trouble getting things together, still feeling really frustrated about it. I'm pausing for a month and am going to continue to try to work through that month to get back to a place where I can write again.

If for some reason someone is reading this who is new and who was interested in pledging to read my backlog of stuff, you won't be able to make a new pledge during a pause,...

Check in / update

Hey everyone!

So it's been a frustratingly long bit since I've had anything for you. ...and I say frustrating because I've really really wanted to write, but had a lot of things get in the way recently. Some of those were good (I finally got a couple of surgery things done that I've been trying to get for years! My girlfriend came to visit for a couple of weeks!) and some were bad (A leak...

Teenage Dirtbag ch28

Heyyy here's that chapter I promised. :) It's chapter 28, and I've put it in the same document as the rest of the chapters in the back half of the story. It's a pretty hefty one, too! I could maaaaybe split it in two at the break? Not certain - something else to think through once it's all done.

I am really hoping that this doesn't feel too far out of left field, but I do really like the...

Brief February Update

Hey everyone,

As is unfortunately typical for winter for me, I've gotten a lot less done than I would have liked this February. I had really hoped to have some chapters for you today, but it looks like that's not going to happen quite yet, so I'm pausing billing for a month as I try to get things together and get more caught up.

Right now my main goal, and the thing taking up real e...

Lifestyles of the Lich and Aimless

Happy holidays everyone! I've got a gift for you: it's the story I wrote for Secret Santa this year! And it's just what you asked for: a 30,000 word lesbian romance starring a skeleton. 

This is sort of a weird story... on one hand, it's a rather serious look at processing grief and learning to live with the loss of a romantic partner. On the other hand, I guarantee there will be at ...

Charm & Charitability (ch 1-3)

(Note for $2 patrons: As soon as I totally finish this, I'll have a second post with access to the full story for you)

Okay, this is one that I started a bit ago and figured would be easy, but then the scope blew up and I got stuck on it for a bit. Stop me if you've heard _that_ one before... But eventually, after restructuring and rewriting the third chapter a few times, I've gotten arou...

Story Directory

I figured it might make sense to have a post with all of my stuff in it together in an organized fashion, in case anyone might have missed something that they would like to read. So here you go!

On Scribblehub under Rooibos Chai:

Trolls & Tribulations
2022-10-20 20:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Teenage Dirtbag Ch. 27

Guess what? I'm not dead!!!

Here's another chapter of Teenage Dirtbag, because a friend of mine threatened the life of a fictional inflatable reptile. It's in the same file as the rest of the chapters! THERE'S KISSING!!

Also, for the time being I'm going to go ahead and have TDB also available to anyone in the $2 and up tiers (along with works that I've fully completed), because I t...

Pausing payment for a month

Hey everyone! 

Just a quick note: As mentioned in my last post, I've been busy with a new job, and I think I'm also hitting a lull in terms of creativity and writing production. This is pretty natural for me... I tend to go periods where I feel really stuck, but then at some point I'll get inspired and kick out some new stuff pretty fast.

But I feel bad about potentially taking...

Important Life Update

Hey everyone!

TL;DR summary: I got a new job! That might mean less writing in the immediate future as I get used to a new schedule, but I'm still working on everything I'm working on. Feel free to alter your pledges if you need to!

Okay, and now a longer discussion of exactly what's going on with me...

For the past few years, I've been in grad school and worki...

Mario Tennis - Courting Disaster!

Hey, surprise new short story!

I know someone who's putting together a Bowsette zine thing, and I got an idea and whipped up a story that would fit. The project itself is in the early stages, and so I'm not sure when it'll be published, but I wanted to post the draft here because I'm quite happy with how it turned out. (also if you're an artist/author who wants more info abt maybe contrib...

Teenage Dirtbag 25-26

Two new chapters, added to the same document as before!

There's a CW for transphobia at the start of 25 - I'm trying to strike a balance where I don't dwell on it too much and reinforce its harms, but I still feel like it's important to the overall story to make it clear exactly what Josie is dealing with here. Hopefully that works well enough (and it's clearly marked such that you can sk...

Teenage Dirtbag chs. 23-24

Hellooooo! Got some words hot off the press, and I know some of you have been waiting for these particular ones for quite a while now.

Here's chapters 23 and 24 of TDB--and chapter 24 is the big presentation! Please note that this isn't the end of the story yet, because I've got several more chapters to finish writing and more than one plot thread yet to resolve. But it's a pretty big sce...

Kaoru & Hana ch. 8-11

Well, I've been dealing with some turbulent life events recently (things never get easier, do they?), but on the brighter side, I have continued to be productive in terms of my writing! I just finished up another few chapters of Kaoru & Hana, and these are some notably long ones that I feel proud about! (particularly the last one?)

As an important note, the chapter that had previously...

Minecraft GFs story posted!

What If We Were Both Girls and We Kissed (In Minecraft) is now fully up on scribblehub! I wouldn't normally send a whole patreon update for that, but I wanted to note that I did a minor bit of rewriting to add to the ending.

A few of y'all who left me comments on the original were correct in that I still didn't entirely close the loop on the whole apology thread. I couldn't figure out how...