Corrupting Power

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 9 (all readers)

Chapter Nine – “Cali vamps tan”

            “You know, when people on the force told me they thought you might be a jinx, I had hoped they were kidding,” Detective Gao said to me. “But no, I should have heeded the advice of my elders and been more wary of the sort of mayhem and carnage you bring in yo...

Weekly Update - 7/10/24

I swear to you, at some point things will either get back to normal or I'll die, although I make no promises about which will happen first.

On Wednesday of last week, I started feeling the occasional bouts of nausea, like I was about to throw up, and never did, but they were rare and fleeting. My appetite dwindled over the next few days, and I was trying to drink as much water and fruit j...

Captains' Days - Ch. 3

Chapter Three

            Tommy certainly wasn’t used to being woken up in the middle of being blown, but this was the third day in a row he’d opened his eyes to see the elvish princess bobbing her head up and down on his cock. There was a sort of wild enthusiasm to how she did it, like she had something to p...

Weekly Update - 7/3/24

I'm back! I'm alive! I feel mostly better! Aaaaaaand it's a fucking heatwave. Great. Juuuuust great. It's currently... 102F outside? Oh fuuuuuuuck this... Yeah, I'm typing this offline from a Chili's right now where I'm getting lunch and I'll post it as soon as I get back to the house. Most days I don't care that we don't have A/C. When it gets over 100? Yeah, I dip out for a few hours.

H...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 28

Chapter Twenty-Eight

            May 4th, 2021

            “General Bonner, forgive my bluntness, but you’re fucking kidding me, right?” Andy asked the General as he stood in her office, with Lexi, Melody and Fiona waiting just outsi...

Weekly Update - 6/26/24

Spoiler: I'm not dead.

I want you to know - this was not a given. Most of the last week, I've been mostly lying in bed, trying to sleep, fighting off the heat, desperately trying to rediscover how to breathe easily.

It wasn't Covid. It was one of the worst head colds I can recall having in decades. My flatmate jokes that when I'm sick, it can be judged on the SoupCon scale. Soupcon...

6/19/24 - Weekly Update (ish)

Those of you who are members of my Discord probably have noticed I haven't been online basically for more than a few minutes since Saturday. I cobbled together the public submissions last night, but other than that and firing off the most recent Neon Stonehenge, I've barely been online at all.

That's because I have been basically in bed since Saturday, shivering, sneezing...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 9 (Alpha readers)

Chapter Nine – “Cali vamps tan”

            “You know, when people on the force told me they thought you might be a jinx, I had hoped they were kidding,” Detective Gao said to me. “But no, I should have heeded the advice of my elders and been more wary of the sort of mayhem and carnage you bring in yo...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 8 (all readers)

Chapter Eight – “Enemy dance card”

Despite the fact that there wasn’t much of a connection between the Lady of Tides death and my runaway bride, I couldn’t help but feel like the two cases were connected. The Atlantean thread was there, but it was flimsy, at best. And as much as I wanted to get back to Detective Gao with some positive news, so far, all I was get...

Quaranteam: Book Two - Ch. 27

Chapter Twenty-Seven

            May 3rd, 2021 – 9:47 p.m.

            “You can’t mean to tell me our best option is to just sit here,” Andy said, pacing uncomfortably around the room. “I understand it’s a panic room, and that ...

Weekly Update - 6/12/24

This heat is fucking killing me. I've got the next chapter of Quaranteam Book Two just about done, so it'll get posted before I crash tonight. I need to nail the ending right, and hilariously enough, it's both a cliffhanger and yet not at all. You'll see when it drops, and I hope you'll like it.

Very short weekly update this week, just because I'm swamped. But I'll ...

Weekly Update - 6/5/24

So much writing to do, so little time. I had a Day Job project spring up that ate up a little bit of the week, but thankfully, it was expected to just be 8-12 hours of work, and for once, the person pitching me the gig wasn't lying, and I finished it in under 10.

You can see from QT2:26 that while I did some time skips early on, we're also going to have sections tha...

Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 4 (alphas)

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...

Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 3 (all readers)

Chapter Three

July 12th, 2020

It was almost a full day after Tom woke up that he heard Meg and Mel waking up, so when he heard them starting to stir, he sprinted into the bedroom, closing the door behind him so that he could fill them in when they gained consciousness.

The first few hours he’d been awake had been frustrating as all hell, because he�...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 26

Chapter Twenty-Six

            May 3rd, 2021 – 7:23 p.m.

            They hated to leave it at that, but Andy and Phil had agreed they both needed to take some time to think, and while Andy had promised he wouldn’t go around talking ab...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 8 (alpha)

Chapter Eight – “Enemy dance card”

Despite the fact that there wasn’t much of a connection between the Lady of Tides death and my runaway bride, I couldn’t help but feel like the two cases were connected. The Atlantean thread was there, but it was flimsy, at best. And as much as I wanted to get back to Detective Gao with some positive news, so far, all I was get...

Weekly Update - 5/29/24

I'm most of the way through the next chapter of Neon Stonehenge, which I'll finish up after I get up tomorrow and post for alpha level readers then. It's most of the way done now, but I'm super goddamn tired and I want to have some time to visit it under the light of day and make sure it's both lining up the way it needs to and doing all the things I want it to. But it'll be do...

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 7 (all readers)

Chapter Seven – “What We’re Calling ‘Penancewear’”

            I wish that anytime I took a case that all the rest of the daily shit that goes on in day-to-day living would simply drop by the wayside and I could just focus on whatever it was I was working on exclusively. Sadly, life, as always, had di...

The Turn At Sin River - Ch. 1

(This is Chapter One of a small-scale story. I imagine it'll be 5-10 chapters long, but we'll play it as it lies.)

Chapter One

              There are only two schools of thought about the desert – either that it has no memory, or that it forgets nothing. I would love to believe...

Before The Storm - Ch. 12

Chapter Twelve

            The trip back to the planet was completely uninterrupted, something Sketch was convinced boded ill fortune for their dealing with the Harbormaster. There weren’t any signs of Y’bari cruisers or Starless Dominion battleships, and the automated docking system recognized them as a retu...

Weekly Update - 5/22/24

I'm in the process of finishing up the next chapter of Before The Storm, which was voted upon by the Voting Tier. I do love getting back into writing Sketch and the crew of The Praeteritus. They're one of my favorite stories to circle around to. That said, I want to get it right. So, expect it sometime tomorrow.

Lots to do over the next week and change, but I as...

A Pack of His Own - Ch. 13 (all readers)

Chapter Thirteen

            A day before the Spring Gala, a note arrived at the diner for Will, informing him that it was semi-formal attire, but that he wouldn’t need a full tie and blazer, simply a nice shirt and slacks, not jeans or shorts. Silversmith had also stressed that Will shoul...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Intermission 5

Intermission Five – Sergei

            May 3rd, 2021 – New Eden, California

            “You look exhausted, Sergei,” Dr. McKenna said to Sergei Petrov as he entered the room, his partner Andrei having headed down to the c...

Weekly Update - 5/15/24

Last week, I made the decision to return to Captains' Days, a story I hadn't touched in months, simply because it hadn't won any of the monthly votes, but Tommy's voice had been plucking at the back of my skull for a while. I've tried fighting those stories before. They end up slowing everything down until I give them voice, so I let Tommy step into the forefront and wrote anot...

Captains' Days - Ch. 2

Chapter Two

             It had never occurred to Tommy that complete and total honesty would play such a big part in his life moving forward, but in the days since he’d captured Kaya, their inability to lie to one another had built the most impressive foundation between the two of them.

  ...

Brewster's Brood - Ch. 37

Part Thirty-Seven

Jenny Westinghouse – 3/11/2017 – Sunday –11:27 pm

            Some people got off on the idea of anonymous sex, but it was clear that Max was getting a little nervous by the fact that he’d just ejaculated inside of a woman who hadn’t even introduced herself. They were going to keep getting presse...

Weekly Update - 5/8/24

I'm most of the way through the next chapter of Brewster's Brood, so I'll try and get that done tonight before I head out to my concert. I'm seeing The Mission UK tonight, and this time actually in San Jose.

I've told this story to a bunch of people, so forgive me if I've told it to you folks as well. I went and saw The Chameleons and The Mission UK up in San Francisco l...

Before The Storm - Ch. 11

Chapter Eleven

            The idea of having a baby in transport was something that had happened countless times over the span of humanity, but it never got any easier, and Sketch didn’t care for the idea of being short-handed on the ship as he was.

         &...

Weekly Update - 5/1/24

Read anything interesting lately? ;)

With Quaranteam 2:25 dropping yesterday, I know a bunch of people are in shock, but all I can tell you is that this has been on the cards for a long time now. When I was on vacation a few months ago and I met face-to-face with the author of QT: 808, I gave him the broad strokes of the coming chapters up to the end of 25 2024-05-01 23:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post