Zeke sat on the balcony, his feet dangling over the edge as he leaned back on his palms. Pudge’s domain was a truly idyllic setting, complete with a perfect sunset that cast the sky in shades of oranges and blues that looked like the work of a master impressionist painter. He was forced to shoulder his perception of the threads aside just so he could take pleasure in the beauty of...
2025-07-15 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostImperative.
It was a simple enough word, and one Elijah keenly understood. He felt it bearing down on him like the weight of the world rested upon his shoulders. Yet, he knew that he couldn’t act with haste. There were too many balls in the air, and if he moved too quickly – or too slowly – it would create a cascade of problems from which he could never hope to rec...
2025-07-14 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostEagle-eyed readers might notice that we're starting the eleventh book in the series here. I can't tell you all how awesome it feels to finish ten books in the series. It's super gratifying to know that people are still enjoying the story, and I just want you all to know that I've still got tons of plans for Elijah and friends. In fact, it still feels like we're just getting ...
2025-07-14 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Zeke could have simply willed himself to another location, but, for two reasons, he chose to ride with Pudge. The first was that he wasn’t entirely certain where they were going, but the second came from a desire for connection. However, his attempts to rectify that were met with stony silence.
Pudge still loved him like the brother he was, but he’d clearly moved on....
2025-07-14 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostElijah was alone, but he could feel every single person he’d inducted into the grove. It wasn’t just his locus, either, though he’d come to recognize that it was difficult to tell the difference between the two sensations. Instead, it was something akin to what he felt with Miguel, though it was different from that as well. His nephew’s presence was like a candle in th...
2025-07-13 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMore than two hundred people sat before Elijah. On some faces were expressions both reserved and reluctant. Other expressions ranged from awe-struck to haughty. And still others were almost entirely blank, and Elijah could only determine their emotions by the feel of their rapidly beating hearts.
For his part, Elijah was incredibly anxious. Combined with the ...
2025-07-12 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostMoving the double chapter from Sunday to today because I think it fits better. Enjoy!
Leaves fluttered in Elijah’s mind, echoing the morning breeze sweeping through the grove. The balcony of his treehouse gave him a spectacular view of the ancestral tree, which sent a wave of contentment through him. As he took a sip of his coffee,...
2025-07-12 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel felt his uncle well before his actual arrival. The feeling wasn’t overbearing, but he had a vague sense of the grove and its master. Still, when Elijah poked his head above the surface of the strait – in the form of a giant sea turtle – he couldn’t contain his relief.
“Welcome back!” Elijah bellowed, though it clearly wasn’t intended as a shout. ...
2025-07-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTime.
The word was a ubiquitous constant, and for every creature in existence. For the unthinking beasts, it was as simple as “time to eat” or “time to sleep.” But for sapient entities, it garnered much more meaning. It marked the passing of days, lending weight to any event. A one-year anniversary was a joyous occasion, but one celebrating fifty years was ...
2025-07-11 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostElijah awoke on a bed of moss, but it wasn’t in his treehouse. He opened his eyes to see a canopy of blue leaves above him. Motes of dust and pollen danced in the rays of light peeking through as the chirp of various birdcalls filled the air. He took a deep breath, smelling fresh rain and earth.
It was home.
“How long?” he asked.
Nerthus stood nea...
2025-07-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe very concept that reality was made of threads was a bit misleading. From Zeke’s perspective, it was true. That wasn’t to imply that what everyone else saw was any less real, though. Rather, it was as if everything existed on multiple planes, and the threads were a representation of the underlying truth of all reality. The other expression – the one everyone els...
2025-07-10 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe cave swirled, a storm of ethera, water, and vitality. But it couldn’t compare to the formless tempest his mind had become. Without those facets – or even the partition that came with his very first step on the path of mind cultivation – he was very nearly overwhelmed with the sheer volume of information that came from his locus. He could feel every single cell of eve...
2025-07-09 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post“How’s it going?” Alyssa asked as she stepped into the room. She kicked aside a pile of old clothes. “Gross.”
She looked identical to how she had back in high school. In fact, the longer he looked at her, the more he realized that she was wearing the same outfit she’d worn the day before he’d left for Hawaii. A black Soundgarden tee-shirt, ripped jean...
2025-07-09 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was nothing.
Zeke existed, and yet, he ceased to be.
The silence was deafening, the nothingness blinding in its lack. There were no thoughts. No senses. No stimuli of any kind. Even the threads were gone.
It might have lasted for an eternity or a second, but suddenly, it all came rushing back. Zeke felt himself being ripped ...
2025-07-09 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostFloating in the center of the cave, with huge strands of kelp tickling his skin, Elijah focused on the facets of his mind. For the most part, they were identical. Nine incarnations of the same diamond-like gem. He knew that representation was all in his imagination, but he also knew it was real. The metaphysics of it were beyond his understanding, but one certainty was t...
2025-07-08 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI apologize. I had something come up, so this morning's Death: Genesis chapter is delayed until tomorrow. I hope this doesn't cause any issues for anyone!
2025-07-08 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Elijah left Argos, he stopped by Atticus’ store and emptied his Arcane Loop and Ghoulhide Satchel and sold anything he couldn’t use. As it turned out, the stakes he’d taken from the war elf encampment were nearly worthless, and the only thing that made them special was that they functioned as foci for the powerful Wardwrights. Without their input, they were practically ...
2025-07-07 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostReality imploded.
Zeke blacked out.
And when he opened his eyes, there was nothing. No strings. No cavern of splintered wood. It was as if he’d broken through to a different plane of existence, and it was entirely empty. No sound. No smell. He wasn’t even sure if what he saw was due to a lack of visual stimuli or if there truly was nothi...
2025-07-07 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostNo - this isn't a third chapter for today! Instead, I wanted to make a quick announcement. I'll be removing the chapters for book two of Path of Dragons on 8/15/2025. As I'm sure you all know by now, this is a necessity forced upon authors who want their work to be included in the Kindle Unlimited catalogue. I do, which means I need to ensure that the content is exclusive to Amazon. Thus, the r...
2025-07-06 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What am I going to do with you?” Elijah asked, pacing back and forth at the foot of the bed.
Gunnar, still bound to the headboard by ethera-sapping handcuffs, let out a long-suffering sigh. “Whatever it is, can you do it elsewhere? I don’t mind the…equipment in here. Even the knowledge of what it’s for doesn’t bother me. What really gets to me is the...
2025-07-06 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Uh…this is not what I expected,” Elijah breathed as he watched Atticus cuff Lindstrom to a bed. He glanced around, unsure what to make of his friend’s basement. There were no bars or cells.
“Don’t worry. It’ll hold, my friend,” Atticus said, looking back with a broad grin. “I’ve tested it myself.”
Through Soul of the Wild, Elijah ...
2025-07-06 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostKurik leaped aside, narrowly dodging an oncoming veinroot. The fleshy tendril changed direction at the last second, wrapping around his ankle and fouling his maneuver. Panicked as it dragged him toward the wall, he hacked at it with his new hatchet. The bone-handled axe bit deep, but the rubbery veinroot was anything but easy to sever. Thankfully, with his recent influx ...
2025-07-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stared at on Gunnar Lindstrom, his expression betraying none of the conflict in his mind. The man was beaten, in pain, and wholly drained. He posed no more threat. And yet, Elijah still wanted to kill him.
Part of that came from the notion that, if he let him live, he might just find a way to complete the contract for which he’d been hired. But Elija...
2025-07-04 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostZeke struggled.
No matter how hard he pulled, the threads that comprised Aja’s tree form refused the budge. The first few had resisted as well, but he’d managed to pry them loose. Severing them took a bit more effort, but in the end, he did it. However, now that he’d moved on to some of the thicker strands, he couldn’t force them to obey his commands.
Just a quick note that I've made a couple of changes with Gunnar's perspective in previous chapters. The first is a mention of the skill he used to hide his traps. Fittingly, it is called Conceal Trap, and it is a ranger ability acquired at level seventeen. The second is the origin of the venom, which was originally acquired by Gunnar himself. Now, it has been changed to...
2025-07-03 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Aja screamed, her voice echoing across all of reality. Zeke’s eardrums burst, and his body began to unravel. A quick pulse of [Hand of Creation] held it together, though not without a good amount of pain. Meanwhile, Zeke sensed one of the moons shatter entirely. Vaguely, he was aware that he’d lost hundreds of thousands of worshippers, all in a single second. 2025-07-03 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Exhaustion gripped Gun, body and mind. He felt like he’d been running for years. His store of ethera was all but depleted, with only a shallow puddle remaining in his core. Even that only remained because of the constant effort of his Regeneration. Without it, he would have long since run dry.
His muscles were both tense and powerless, while his mind was a ...
2025-07-02 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah leaped high into the air, narrowly avoiding the bullet, which slammed into a nearby tree, shattering its trunk in a shower of splinters. The tree tipped over with a creak, catching in the branches of its neighbors. Elijah barely noticed it because he was too busy dodging darts and dancing between other traps as they activated.
As it turned out, Shape of the Master...
2025-07-02 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I just wanted to make a post letting everyone know that Death: Genesis 9 is now available on Kindle and Audible. Here's the synopsis:
2025-07-01 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Zeke Blackwood wields mana beyond imagination. A human/demon hybrid, he walks the path of arcane destruction, slaughtering monstrous and m...
It was all a show.
Elijah was well aware that everyone was watching, and he also knew how they would react to the Shape of the Sky. After all, it was still the most visually impressive form he had available, if only because of its resemblance to most people’s picture of a true dragon. No one on Earth could look at that form and not feel a note of awe.
His choice to lea...
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