I pushed out the most recent chapter of McCallister's Madness on Monday because I sort of knew I was going to be taking a little bit of extra time with the most recent chapter of Breakpoint because of research, so that'll be out probably very late tonight or sometime tomorrow.
It's been windy as the Dickens over here lately, and we had to batten down the ...
2023-02-23 02:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostPart four - “An object lesson”
They had finally brought him a meal, if it could even be called that. The soda was a flat Coca-Cola, although he was only going by the logo on the can. The paper plate had held a sandwich of some sort, although that term was more than a little generous for the excuse of a concoction they had laid on the table before him. The bread was ba...
2023-02-21 04:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostPart Six – Gold
When I went to start at Ordinary Exotic Games, the name that Marc had given to the game company, I almost expected that one of the g’s in GG would stand ‘gold,’ since that was on schedule for very soon, but as it turned out GG stood for Gilbert Guttierrez, and he was as cheerfully queer as the day is long. GG;s an openly gay Latino, with dyed blue ...
2023-02-19 23:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostSo you can't choose Morgana's Gift again, but everything else is on the table, so vote for what you want to see, because February's a tight month, so there's only so much space!
I haven't been able to get to profiles this month, so I'm letting the tier 3s vote on just one of the two You Decide's this month. You have until Monday to cast your vote!
2023-02-17 20:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for indulging me and letting me do another Silversmith story for Valentine's Day. I had a kernel of an idea rolling and sometimes you just have to let those things loose. I was very happy with how it turned out. Part of the fun of the last couple of Silversmith pieces is that the titular character of the series is sort of peripheral to the story -- oh, ol' Jonas plays a ...
2023-02-16 02:39:43 +0000 UTC View PostThree Days In February
(a Jonas Silversmith story)
Feb. 14, 2015
Maybe I’ve never told you this, but I truly hate Valentine’s Day. I get that it’s meant to be a romantic holiday and a celebration of love, but in thirty plus years, I’ve had someone to celebrate it with exactly once. But every year, I go out to a bar on Valentine’s Da...
2023-02-15 10:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostMuch of the next month of Kevin’s life was spent hip deep in work, although he certainly made time to enjoy himself here and there. The film was scheduled to be content locked in just a few days’, and that meant endless amounts of tiny twiddles. He was starting to lose his damn mind with the amount of slight decibel tweakage he’d done in the past we...
2023-02-13 07:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostIs it just me, or does it still feel weird writing "2023" on dates of things? I know there's a little bit of that every year, but this year feels particularly egregious. No idea quite why.
Spent most of today writing in things that either you won't see (i.e. internal reference notations for QT) or stuff you'll see eventually, but still a ways off (i.e. commissioned works that the co...
2023-02-09 04:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Garney – 3/9/2017 – Friday – 5:48 pm
He’d had to be keeping tabs on these kinds of events for weeks when they were doing early research and study on Max, but it was truly a security nightmare, and they never seemed to get any better. In fact, with this one, basically people could approach from any direction. Sure, there was a gate that people were sup...
2023-02-08 01:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Four
December 11th, 2020
Brunch had been about as tense as Andy had anticipated it would be, with many of his partners voicing concerns about bringing Melody Park into the family, but in the end, Piper laid them all quickly to rest by pointing out that if she could give the woman a second chance, then all the rest of them should be able to ...
2023-02-07 00:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostI actually feel pretty good about where I'm at right now, and how much I got done last month. I'm late on a few remaining commissions, but should have those done within the next week, will probably be late on Friday's post because of other obligations (I'm a judge for local Magic: The Gathering prereleases which will take up my Friday night and all of my Saturday) so if I don't have it done by ...
2023-02-02 01:24:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three
December 11th, 2020
It was incredibly uncommon for Andy to get up before dawn, but this particular morning his body just would not let him sleep, and he knew exactly why. He was going to have to have one of the more difficult conversations he’d ever had to have in his life. Skipping it, however, would’ve been endlessly worse.
The mor...
2023-02-01 22:14:55 +0000 UTC View Post(a commissioned work)
Chapter Two
The next week or so, he was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never really did. He figured since Lacey had gotten off with him, she'd fall back into her familiar patterns and distance herself from him as far as possible as quickly as possible. That was what she'd done whenever she'd gotten what ...
2023-01-28 21:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostPart Three – Freshman Year, Spring Semester
When spring semester rolled around in my freshman year, things were already starting to evolve and I wasn't entirely sure what to make of any of them. A handful of students had left CARP during the winter break and that meant the campus wasn't quite as packed as it had been before. We were told during our first assembly in Jan...
2023-01-28 01:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostI had fun writing the most recent chapter of 7 Secrets, so hopefully else had loads of fun with it as well. I'll have another chapter next month and then the final chapter in March, just so we have that one thread wrapped up. I also had a blast with the most recent Breakpoint which I know had a lot of people scratching heads. It's only going to get more insane,...
2023-01-26 08:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostPart Five – Silver
So, by this point, I think we can agree I'm not a complete idiot. I'd recognized there was a pattern in how long things were in between their occurrences and it was descending. That meant I should expect the fifth gift or secret or whatever to be springing up sometime in August of 2017.
There was something strange about knowing what the...
2023-01-26 01:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostPart Five
Rin
“It's a big fucking thing, innit?” Rin asked Len. “They aren't supposed to be this big, are they?”
“I'm not an etymologist, but–”
“Entomologist,” she corrected.
That seemed to throw him, because he paused for a long moment before he turned to look at her. “Wait, what?”
“Entomology is the study of...
2023-01-23 06:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostAh, an entire house to myself for a couple of weeks. The flatmate is away traveling, meaning I don't really even have to put on pants if I don't want to. I even have the fridge stocked with Mezzo Mix, so it's all good in Mr. McTaggart's neighborhood.
Yesterday I posted a previously commissioned one shot, Brass In Pocket, and as such I introduced a tag, "One Shot," w...
2023-01-19 02:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey, it's time for everybody to get to take part in a poll! So I was looking at scheduling today, and we are now officially 6 months ahead of public releases of my work.
As you fine folks are all supporting my writing endeavor, I want to ask you if we should hold here (i.e. make some public weeks 2 releases a week) or if we should extend our lead up to a year's worth. I could go eit...
2023-01-18 00:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostBrass In Pocket
a one-shot commission
He didn't realize it was going to be a particularly interesting day when he woke up in the morning, but today was going to be a day that Shawn Horley wouldn't forget any time soon. Shawn was in his third year of thaumaturgical engineering at Grimcandle University, and he'd been up studying late into the wee hours of the...
2023-01-17 20:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six – Always Saturday
The next few weeks passed relatively without incident before Kevin got the sort of one-two punch of a day like he couldn't possibly have anticipated. It started off relatively light, with him having a meeting with Alice Karteaux with a few final notes about last minute tweaks and adjustments to the score. He would've been worried that Emily...
2023-01-15 06:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostPart 25
Danny Garney – 3/9/2017 – Friday – 3:22 pm
It had been nice, hanging around the club, not having to worry about Max in motion, but all that was going to change in a few hours, as the food truck headed back out into the city with Max behind the cook's station. That was when things were going to be dicey again, but in some ways, it would be a nice change...
2023-01-12 23:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostNoah's Journal, Day 23: Very glad I didn't think God was joking when he suggested I build a big-ass boat.
So here's where we are, folks. I've been with off-and-on power for the last day or so, and the rain is still fucking coming. We're not in any danger of being flooded, but there's a distinct possibility I won't be able to drive much of anywhere for a few days if this keeps up....
2023-01-12 00:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
There was something incredibly lush about the entire surroundings as they descended from the main auditorium into the belly of the building that held the backstage meet and greet. The entire walk felt like being in the long tracking shot in Martin Scorcese's “Goodfellas,” with such a wild mixture of people all around them. They were by far the only people ...
2023-01-07 04:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostCutting it close, huh? Well, folks, what a crazy month it's been so far. Hopefully you all had great holidays, but believe me, I seemed to hit nearly every misstep I possibly could.
I headed back to the Midwest, and caught stuck in a hotel for a night since driving the last leg back to the family wasn't possible, since roads were closed. In addition to that, my laptop's battery finally ga...
2023-01-05 08:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
There was a certain level of expectation that had been building up around tonight for the past several weeks. While he and Jade had been sexually intimate several times now, they'd both sort of been dancing around the subject of her virginity, until last week she'd come to him with a proposal. They could have a nice dinner date, and then they could fuck and ge...
2023-01-05 07:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostPart Five
The surface of the planet was nothing but dead rock and mausoleums as far as the eye could see, and if Helen was to be believed, there wasn't another living soul basically within ten minutes flight in any direction. The defenses were all automated, and many of them were basically antiques at this point so Sketch wasn't especially worried about them, although the...
2022-12-31 01:35:57 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still working on Before The Storm 5 but travel has been massively complicated by two things: the winter storm decimating the Midwest, and the fact that my laptop's battery no longer seems to hold a charge for shit (some of this may also be attributed to cold weather). The laptop's an easy enough fix - I've ordered a new one which I'll have in a week or two, but the...
2022-12-22 06:54:22 +0000 UTC View PostPart Four
Harry
When he opened his eyes, he was in what could only be described as a 'clean room,' as the overriding theme of the entire place was white. White walls, white benches (including one that he was strapped to), white doors and an abundance of white lights all around the room to infect his view with diffused light, as if everything was seeped in a...
2022-12-19 01:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo here's the poll for the next person I'm writing a profile about from the QT universe. Also, here's the profile for Mali, who should start appearing in QTB2 within the next few chapters. Consider this your introduction to her!
2022-12-16 01:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post