Super 5.2
The door to Sasha’s room opens with a hiss and Taylor slips inside. She moves slowly for once, avoiding noise.
The overhead lights glimmer just low enough to fuzz the edges of the furniture and the loosely grouped wires running along the wall and floor. A computer chair, high-backed and neon, still sits in its plastic wrap at the wide desk, and on the be...
2025-11-17 14:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostSuper 5.1
About an hour after clearing the scav den in the basement, David tells Taylor a story.
His mother chimes in at points, growing visibly more upset as she comes to terms with how much danger David was in as part of Taylor’s crew. That comes second though, to the part Gloria played in another story.
“David.” Taylor leans back on one of the horrend...
2025-11-03 21:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude: Choosing Beggers
“That’s a nice chair,” Becca says.
David nods. “Thought this was more of a scav ‘outpost,’ yeah?”
Taylor sighs, pinching her nose. “That’s the thing about scavs. Always digging in deeper.”
“Hey, we found the other elevator, didn’t we?” Becca replies.
They did find the other elevator. It lies in ...
2025-10-21 18:45:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: The Path to…
“That concludes my report,” said Obi-Wan.
Dooku’s jaw clenched at the knight’s carefree smile. Qui-Gon was always so relaxed with his pupils—even young Skywalker. That was not the source of his disquiet, however.
Dooku was ensconced in his study with Qui-Gon and Anakin, communicating with Obi-Wan over a secur...
2025-10-06 21:32:37 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller Arc Finale
“Pop the bottle and kiss it up to whatever god you believe in, chooms!”
Becca puts words to action, breaking off the neck of the champagne with a deft flick of her revolver. Glass tinkles against the quick tarp they threw down right in front of the elevator, a designer table was dragged over to hold whatever cups and glasses they could fin...
2025-09-30 00:25:22 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller 4.6
Bravado covers a multitude of fears, especially those a man can’t even speak to himself.
Aaron Lombard isn’t afraid.
He watches the ‘Saka bitch who hacked his car—his car—for any sign that she’s afraid, and she must be, overstepping like this. The pause, noticeable, the twitch when Aaron calls out Yorinobu Arasaka by name p...
2025-09-24 00:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostRefugee 3.1
“Becca! Time to delta!”
Scarlet slides around the corner, placing the barrel of her gun against of a gangoon creeping up on her friend. One round sends his headless corpse tumbling forward. Time to retreat.
Becca grins over her shoulder. “Find your little lamb?”
“She’s not my anything,” Scarlet snaps. Becca has the most pieces o...
2025-09-17 04:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostRefugee 3.2
“Get the fuck out.”
Maine sits hunched forward, fists clenched tight.
“I—” The words tie knots in Taylor’s throat.
Maine stands, couch tipping backwards, fists trembling. “I said get the FUCK OUT!”
His roar sends Taylor flying backwards in null time. She slips out the door, into the hallway leading to the rest of the bui...
2025-09-17 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller 4.5
<Target is move-moving>
Taylor straightens, hand ghosting to her new revolver. The grip feels sinful in her palm, a shame she only now has cause to use it.
“Is he leaving?” Taylor asks.
Sasha doesn’t reply for a long second. Then she sighs over the call.
<Negative> Lucy says. <Just taking a...
2025-09-16 20:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller 4.4
“Welcome to Casa del Becca!” The woman throws her arms wide, electric-alice blue skin shimmering in the mood lighting. “Mi casa ass su casa. So, pop a squat, chooms. We got shit to do!”
Becca’s apartment is like Becca. Small, messy, and full of life. Gun bits—receivers, casings, firing pins—lie scattered around the floor between dirty l...
2025-09-09 19:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller 4.3
Taylor and Emma stare at the eviction holo blocking their door.
“You have got to be fucking with me,” Emma says.
Taylor sucks in a deep breath, eyes flashing red. “It’s never the hit you see coming…”
Emma shoves her shoulder. “Don’t start. We’re locked out of our apartment!”
The two of them stand on the ...
2025-09-01 23:37:02 +0000 UTC View PostShot Caller 4.2
“Scarleeeeeet.” Sasha smirks at Taylor from her bed. “I didn’t know you named yourself after your old spark.”
Taylor slaps the door shut with a groan. “Becca got to you. And she’s my old nemesis.”
“Mrrow.” Sasha smiled, catlike and satisfied. “Friends to enemies to lovers?”
“If you’re just gonna make f...
2025-08-19 01:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post4.1 Shot Caller
Lucy’s voice buzzes in Taylor’s ear. <I h-have cameras>.
Taylor rises, pulling her lab coat snug over her shoulders. “We’re in. Becca on me.”
“You got it, boss!”
Over her agent, Taylor adds, “David, you’re on the back door.”
<Got it,> he replies.
They exit the bombed-out store ...
2025-08-11 21:42:19 +0000 UTC View PostRefugee Arc Finale
Two girls stumble back into their first-floor studio apartment.
The TV bolted to the ceiling blares some nonsense commercial before flicking over to two minutes of news at the top of the hour. Taylor sinks onto the couch. The remote sits just out of her reach. She would just download the digital remote, but according to forums the code for this mo...
2025-07-29 00:34:37 +0000 UTC View PostRefugee 3.5
Lucyna Kushinaga hates Arasaka.
“I told you to bring a third,” she says. “Not to bring a baby corpo.” The little boy at Scarlet’s side glares, but he keeps his mouth shut.
Scarlet turns to Lucy, eyes flashing red, and it’s all the netrunner can do not to flinch. She sits, back straight, perfect relaxed, like the teashop they’...
2025-07-22 01:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostRefugee 3.4
Refugee 3.4
You can corner little rats easily in Arasaka tower. Taylor knows that, the lessons written on her skin with bruises.
She feels dirty, physically unclean, when she places a hand on the freshie’s chest and shoves him into the empty break room. She picked this one because the cameras don’t work. Emma cleared it for her with a winsome s...
2025-07-14 23:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: Nobody Special
Chapter 24: Nobody Special
“And that’s how my trip to Rivira ended,” I said.
“So you didn’t get to the 20th floor?” Hestia didn’t even try to hide her relief. “Phew—I mean, i-it’s good that my beloved daughter knows when to turn back.”
“Favorite child,” Lili murmured.
In response, Hestia tackle-h...
2025-07-07 17:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude: Who’s Ready for Tomorrow
You cannot feel the rain.
It pings off metal, trailing in rivulets down the channels and divots. With each stride, it sprays, kicked high like wisps of breath off of too broad shoulders.
Accelerate.
The ground pushes up through your feet. Cracking, brittle strength. Lights flash, horns blare.
Dip shoulder. Acce...
2025-06-23 23:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostYou can catch up on this story HERE
I will be uploading any missing chapters and organizing the Patreon collection this week (6/17/25).
A/N Reminders:
The Storm—The name for Maelstrom’s doomed rampage across Night ...
2025-06-17 15:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was edited by J4Numbers and commissioned by Everdusk.
Please enjoy!
Chapter 17: A Mask of Iron and Bone
Bo’s glare could boil the Living Waters.
“You told my sister.”
“You told me to make a choice.” I tilted my head towards Satine.
The three of us, plus one anxious but increasingly fascinated metalogist, stood in ...
2025-06-07 00:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Taylor vs Goliath
The towering monster pushed itself to its feet. Between gargantuan limbs, I could see flashes of Lili’s worried face.
I twisted the hammer in my hands, steel fingers against steel haft.
The Goliath’s arena formed a rough circle, with walls of jagged rock leading up to a domed roof. I stood just where the walls started to curve...
2025-06-03 02:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was edited by Maji and Commissioned by Everdusk! Please enjoy
Chapter 16: Ask and Ye Receive
“Thank you,” Padme Amidala said, “for the meeting.”
“Of course we must have a meeting.” Satine looked out of the long windows lining the hall, over Mandalore, her home. “I doubt you came here to stare at plinths.”
After their first da...
2025-05-30 16:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Is it Wrong to Bossrush the Dungeon?
I smashed the orc into the ground with a smile.
After planning this dive for so long, it felt good to finally make progress.
The monsters on this level moved so slowly, and my new war hammer felt so light in my hands. With a spin, I sent another pair of orcs flying back into the bone white trees that fi...
2025-05-26 21:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe return to this story after four years, in a more uncertain world than once had been. I dedicate this next arc to Hestia, and being kind to those who come to us with nothing. Please enjoy.
This chapter was edited by EVASaiyajin
Interlude: Cruelty Has a Human Heart, The Human Form Divine
Freya had many plans in motion.
She walked now in the gutters of O...
2025-05-24 21:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was beta'd by Maji! Hope you all enjoy a return to one of my longest ongoing projects
Episode II Chapter 15: Worlds Near and Far
The bright Serreno sun cast evening shadows across the valley, a tapestry of brilliant greens and deep darkness that drew my eyes from the balcony. My hand dangled on the edge of the warm adobe, loosely holding a holopad with ...
2025-05-20 00:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was edited by EVASayajin and commissioned by Georgio
Chapter 4: As Way Leads to Way
I woke feeling well rested.
My feet still ached, and my mouth tasted like dead and dying things, but for the first time since waking up bound in the back of a cart, I felt ready to face the challenges that stretched out in front of me. The first, being a bath.
<... 2025-05-13 01:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This is a backpost. This chapter has already been posted on other websites that I am adding to the collection here for convenience
Chapter One: Hey, You
I woke up in the back of a cart, to the sound of hoofbeats against cobblestone.
“Hey, you,” a rough voice said. “You’re finally awake.” A pause. “Guards sure worked you over....
2025-05-09 16:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was edited by EVASayajin
Chapter 3: The Dragonborn Comes
I peered through a dense thicket, ignoring the thistles poking against my skin.
“What do you think?” I asked Brutus.
He shifted, pulling against my grip with a whine. I had a hand buried deep in his scruff, or else he’d already be halfway up the hill. I saw hints of a wooden watc...
2025-05-09 15:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone!
I'm happy to announce that Balm in Gilead has officially won the story poll I posted a few weeks ago. Thank you everyone for participating! Even if your story didn't win, I'll keep the results of this poll in mind for next time while I work on finishing Balm in Gilead.
I have a few chapters of commissioned work to share with you all over the next few weeks, but I've ...
2025-05-06 17:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter was edited by Maji and commissioned by Georgio!
Chapter 2: Fangs and Foes
It would be the second time I took a dragon’s eye, which I felt was twice more than most.
The heat of the dragon’s breath licked at my feet, rushing over the snow-covered ground. Those baleful red eyes tracked me through my leap, and I brought the sword in my hands down ...
2025-05-06 16:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post