Corrupting Power

Weekly Update - 9/4/24

Weird few days. I started coughing on Sunday, and Monday was phlegmy enough to wonder if I'd actually contracted the fictional disease I invented. But I slept for 12 hours last night, and that left me with energy when I woke up this morning, although still this barking cough. I'm halfway through getting the next chapter of A Pack Of His Own to the commissioner and halfway ...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Intermission 6

Intermission Six - Sofia

            May 8th, 2021 – Andorra la Vella, Andorra

            Despite the magnificent view she had looking down Meritxell Avenue towards the mountains Colonel Sofia Ramirez couldn’t find herself relaxing al...

A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 15 (alpha)

Chapter Fifteen

‘What the hell am I doing here?’ Will asked himself, not for the first time since the Spring Gala started, and most likely not the last time before the night would be through. He wasn’t entirely surprised to see most of the people sitting at tables in tribal lines, although it wasn’t as widespread as he thought it might have ...

A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 14 (all)

Chapter Fourteen

Will glanced at The Prodigal before turning back to look at Silversmith, desperate not to stare at the newcomer, but it turned out not to matter anyway. From the sudden ‘oooohs’ and ‘aaaahs,’ it was clear The Prodigal was marching right over towards their location.

“Ah, Alistair, I see you’ve decided to join us this year,” Sil...

Weekly Update - 8/28/24

So, there's CARP 11 done. There's only two chapters left in that storyline. One will essentially be a finale and the other will be either an epilogue or also a finale, make of that what you will. Whenever CARP wins the next vote, it'll be a two-fer, so I can wrap that storyline up.

It's not the only one nearing completion. There's...

C.A.R.P. - Ch. 11

Part Eleven – Senior Year, Fall Semester

It’s easy to think of what happened over our senior year and get distracted by the terrorist attack that occurred in March of 2001, but we’ll get to that in time, because the fall of that semester had a lot going on to keep us distracted. It was the last autumn I would be coming onto a campus as a student, although I would ev...

Quaranteam: Book 2 - Ch. 30

Chapter Thirty

            May 8th, 2021

            As much as he used to love travelling, he was finding that getting around in the post DuoHalo world was a lot more complicated than it had been before. Of course, he had nearly two dozen...

Weekly Update - 8/21/24

Well, this is a joy - our internet is out and has been for the last hour or two, so this will probably go up on 8/22 rather than 8/21. Bleh. I'm already halfway through QT2:30 so that'll go up Thursday or Friday, and it looks like C.A.R.P.  will het another chapter Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I didn't expect Neon Stonehenge 11 to...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 11 (alpha)

Chapter Eleven – “Not My Doing”

            Bella’s reading had shaken me, no doubt about it, and now I understood why both my father always seemed so rattled when he visited her, and why my sister came by regularly. There was a lot of foreboding about what she’d told me, a sense that this case ran much...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 10 (all subscribers)

Chapter Ten – “Not the Dial-A-Bullet Hotline”

            The vampire in question was named Viktor Kolmach, and he was from eastern Europe. In accordance with the Hunter Accords, he’d checked in with the Hunt Captain of the Vampires, but hadn’t been incredibly specific about where he’d be staying whil...

Weekly Update - 8/14/24

I've been advised to start taking daily walks again, so that's maybe resulted in both a slight grumpiness and an uptick in energy, as I'm trying to get more done, although I spent all of today editing other people's stuff. I'm most of the way through Quaranteam: Selected Servicing 2, which will be send to its commissioner within the next day or so. I dropped the first chapter o...

Quaranteam: Selected Servicing - Ch. 1 (alpha)

Quaranteam: Selected Servicing

(A 10-part Quaranteam tale)

by Devin McTaggart ( http://www.patreon.com/CorruptingPower )

Part One - “I Became Interesting”

December 29th, 2020

  ...

Quaranteam: Phil's Tale - Ch. 21

Chapter 21

            November 15th, 2020

            “What’s on the agenda for the day?” Phil asked Linda with a smirk on his lips.

            “You k...

Smokeland Slumdance - Ch. 1

Smokeland Slumdance

By Devin McTaggart

Chapter One

            Rain is supposed to wash away the pain and filth of our misdeeds, but all it ever seems to do is get me wet. The neon forest around me gets diffused by the fog and it’s almost impossible to see more...

Weekly Update - 8/7/24

Yesterday's post will go up sometime tomorrow, and I will have a post out on Friday for QT: Phil's Tale even if it kills me. I lost some time getting the next chapter of QT:UM to its commissioner, and we'll see what people think of that when they see it in the next couple of months.

The thing that's dropping tomorrow is something new and differe...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 29

Chapter Twenty-Nine

            May 5th, 2021

            “You think this is a good idea?” Nathaniel asked Andy as they both tried to sit and wait patiently, glancing at their phones checking yet again for a message that still hadn’t...

Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 5 (alpha)

Chapter Five

July 15th, 2020

Despite the fact that he’d had time to watch the changes, Joe absolutely couldn’t believe the transformation he’d been witnessing for the last few days. The first day, he’d been down for his own regeneration, which had only been a few minor readjustments here and there, nothing had taken the sort of chunk of time that re...

Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 4 (all readers)

Chapter Four

July 12th, 2020

Joe had been forced to sit and wait for a number of things in his life, but the time when Liv left him and when she and the others returned felt like it might as well have been a thousand years, even if it was only an hour or two at best. Tom had taken his girls’ things back to his room and Joe had taken his girls’ things ba...

Weekly Update - 7/31/24

Tonight! News Flash! No poker for Dev! AAA has a complete failure! Tesla Roadside Assistance is actually amazing! Here's the details!

So, I got Breakpoint 16 out there finally, and I have QT2:29 and QT:UM (6 to the commissioner, 5 to the Alphas and 4 to all Patreons) to do in the next couple of days as I'm still working on getting ca...

Breakpoint - Pt. 16

Part Sixteen

Len

“I swear to Christ, if I find out someone built this island on purpose, I will spend the rest of my days trying to figure out how to control how this time travel bullshit works, so I can go back and put my foot through the brainpan of that guy,” Len grumbled as he was shaving in the mirror while talking to Harry and Stella, Mira s...

C.A.R.P. - Ch. 10

Part Ten – Summer Break (Junior → Senior Year)

            The last free summer I was ever going to have. That was my line of thinking going into the summer break between junior and senior year. I wanted to relax. I needed to destress and not focus on what chaos I’d seen just a few short months ago. I wante...

Weekly Update - 7/24/24

I'm still working on the next chapter of C.A.R.P., but we're basically getting close to the endgame with that story now, so I have to be very careful what I do with the story, especially to make sure it's all consistent with what I've written so far. It'll be coming as soon as I finish it. There's only three chapters left after this one - the two for the senior year, and the l...

Brewster's Brood - Pt. 38

Part Thirty-Eight

Mrs. Churchill – 3/12/2017 – Monday –8:44 am

            “Boss, I don’t think you’re going to be happy about this,” Lynne said to Mrs. Churchill as she walked into the office for the morning. “A couple of hours ago, someone pinged the Rachel Williams identity, Max’s mom, looking into her ...

Weekly Update - 7/17/24

Look at that, we're actually on some sort of schedule again. Crazy dog. I mean, crazy crazy dog. Before The Storm won our poll, and I'm always happy to return to that story - I think it's one of my favorites, just because it lets me tap into my sci-fi pastiche love. I've tried to sort of straddle my favorite sci-fi things - my love of both Star Wars and Firefly comes throu...

Before The Storm - Ch. 13

(the previous version of this chapter switched two characters around - it has been fixed. Apologies. -cp)

Chapter Thirteen

Sketch was starting to get used to waking up being blown, and he wasn’t entirely sure if that was a thing that should bother him or he just accept was now part of his life. But this seemed a step beyond. He opened his eyes to find Ser...

A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 14 (alpha)

Chapter Fourteen

Will glanced at The Prodigal before turning back to look at Silversmith, desperate not to stare at the newcomer, but it turned out not to matter anyway. From the sudden ‘oooohs’ and ‘aaaahs,’ it was clear The Prodigal was marching right over towards their location.

“Ah, Alistair, I see you’ve decided to join us this year,” Sil...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 10 (alpha)

Chapter Ten – “Not the Dial-A-Bullet Hotline”

            The vampire in question was named Viktor Kolmach, and he was from eastern Europe. In accordance with the Hunter Accords, he’d checked in with the Hunt Captain of the Vampires, but hadn’t been incredibly specific about where he’d be staying whil...