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...
2024-04-26 18:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
July 10th, 2020
“You know, if Lucy was here, she’d be chewing our asses out for being nice to you,” Meg laughed, leaning back on the couch.
“Who’s Lucy and what the hell did I do to offend her?” Tom asked.
“Lucy is one of the members our volleyball team, and what you did wasn’t to her, but to her boyfriend,” Mel add...
2024-04-26 18:07:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20
November 13th, 2020
The last thing Phil wanted to do today was to deal with the fucking press, but there was no getting around it. He’d agreed to provide as much information to Katie Couric as he could ...
2024-04-26 05:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: The Little Things (Olivia)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
There’s an expression about pixies – little bodies, big trouble.
To call this an unders...
2024-04-25 03:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to a palindrome date! As of midday today, I'm on a writer's retreat, away from my usual writing office, house sitting for a friend of mine for a couple of days. It also means I can't get distracted by Dota or any of the other things that are on my desktop. I just have my laptop, my iPad, my phone and my little JBL portable speaker to play my music while I write. So the next few days sho...
2024-04-25 02:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostA few months later, Kevin Bishop had what had to be the strangest day in his entire life. When he’d woken up in the morning, he and Fatima had realized they both had an appointment on their calendars that neither of them remembered making or agreeing to.
&n...
2024-04-21 01:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostI know they're necessary, but good Lord do taxes blow. I'm STILL working on the next chapter of Morgana's Gift and maybe I'll get it done before I crash tonight, but until then, I've posted the two latest chapters of A Pack Of HIs Own, one for everyone and the most recent one for Alpha readers. We're nearing the end of MG 2024-04-17 23:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 should be dressed ...
2024-04-17 22:43:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twelve
A few days later, Clayton called to schedule an appointment with Will and Lacey to let Will get his full wolf on, and Will found himself waking up from a nightmare the morning on the day of that he couldn’t get his transformation under control and had mauled one of his partners.
The sudden shift from sleep to consciousness had woken Lacey, ...
2024-04-17 22:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Four
April 28th, 2021
“Can you not kill us on the way to the hospital?” Andy asked with a little bit of a nervous laugh. He trusted Alexis with his life, but she was putting...
2024-04-13 19:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis goddamn week.
So I have a theory. Everyone has a friend who is habitually doing favors for everyone else, trying to do anything they can to help out and make things better for those around them. And those friends are notorious for never, ever, ever asking for help... until one day they do.
My phone rang on Friday afternoon, and I answered it accordingly: "Well, you've ...
2024-04-11 07:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Part Fifteen
Len
“After you eliminate the improbable, whatever remains is what happened, no matter how unlikely it may seem,” Len said to himself, glancing around at the jungle that surrounded him in all directions, with no sign of the village, the path, the barrier or any other landmark he ...
2024-04-10 07:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully people had fun with my April Fool's story, The Stacked Deck, which I didn't want to tell anyone about in advance, because I wanted to be sure to get it done. Also, for those of you who read the story, I made a small correction to the cards in one of the later hands and that's in the post, but not the PDF. (It'll also be corrected when the story goes live on public sit...
2024-04-04 04:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Stacked Deck
(a Jonas Silversmith story)
By Devin McTaggart
“In my line of work, being tense and nervous just sort of comes with the territory, being that making a mistake can cost dozens, if not hundreds, of people their lives. My name is Steve Hayes, also known as the Three of Clubs. I’m what’s known as a Sanitizer. The Head S...
2024-04-02 01:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe next thing coming is QT2:23, which I'm hoping to have done tomorrow sometime, but I want to have some of the other Quaranteam writers take a look at it before I put it out publicly. There's a lot of strange shit happening over at Valhalla Shores, and so it's important to make sure I'm not getting too crazy too fast, especially with 2:25 2024-03-28 00:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Part Thirty-six
Jenny Westinghouse – 3
2024-03-23 04:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostWithin the next 24 hours or so, the next chapter of Brewster's Brood will drop, and it will be around 5k words, plus the descriptions of the Golf Group, which is partly why it's taking so long. I realize it's been a while since we visited in with Max, but I also had to figure out the next several steps of keeping Max in the dark. It's a lot harder than it looks...
2024-03-21 05:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostPart Nine – Junior Year, Spring Semester
Good, excellent. That was our attorney, and she insists this deal of yours is good down to the letter, granting not only me but my family and associates complete and total immunity for all things past, present and future relating to our time as C.A.R.P. students, ...
2024-03-20 02:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Two
April 28th, 2021
What a week it had been. Andy had spent most of it on set, helping polish and rework scenes so they played better, as he’d been trying not to think about the Men’s Protection Act going into law. He and Phil had also been playing phone tag, so he’d been unable to get clarification about what was going on in terms of ...
2024-03-16 06:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostUgh. Hadn't we agreed that we weren't doing this "Daylight Saving" bullshit anymore? Wasn't that the thing we'd conclusively decided was too much of a pain in our collective asses that we actually pushed for it to end? Oh. Right. We can't get people in Congress to agree that attempting to overthrow the government is bad, so why should we expect them to get their shit together on anything ...
2024-03-13 22:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
July 10th, 2020
“You know, if Lucy was here, she’d be chewing our asses out for being nice to you,” Meg laughed, leaning back on the couch.
“Who’s Lucy and what the hell did I do to offend her?” Tom asked.
“Lucy is one of the members our volleyball team, and what you did wasn’t to her, but to her boyfriend,” Mel add...
2024-03-12 23:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
March 11th, 2020
Senior Airman Tom Holt-Hodge looked out the window of the plane he was on and frowned as he noticed the plane’s wing tipping upward, meaning the 737 he was flying commercial on was turning off the expected path. He reached over to his right and shook his best friend, Joseph Barton, who was asleep next to him in their first-cla...
2024-03-12 06:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 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 different plans in mind for me, and nobody ever lets me just concentrate w...
2024-03-09 09:12:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twelve
A few days later, Clayton called to schedule an appointment with Will and Lacey to let Will get his full wolf on, and Will found himself waking up from a nightmare the morning on the day of that he couldn’t get his transformation under control and had mauled one of his partners.
The sudden shift from sleep to consciousness had woken Lacey, ...
2024-03-09 06:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eleven
The day after Will had encountered Mister Silversmith, a notice was dropped off at the diner, marked personally for him, one which Billy seemed a little annoyed by as he waved it in Will’s face. “If you think this means shit’s going to change here for me, you best think again or have my replacement lined up,” he said, finally slapping the e...
2024-03-09 06:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostY'all should go see Dune 2 if you haven't already. If you have, maybe y'all should consider going and seeing it a second time. I'm actually considering making the voyage up to San Francisco to see one of the 16 super IMAX versions that's on show in the entire world. Might not do it. Then again... it was very damn pretty.
I dropped the last chapter of Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics 2024-03-07 01:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Part Ten – “An Army of Battle-Hardened Bitches”
December 23rd, 2020
Fiona was glad to be home from the trip, and Ash certainly seemed to echo the sentiment. The last week had been difficult and challenging in nearly every sense of the word, between dealing with her parents, as well as the gunshot outside of one of the signings. There had been highligh...
2024-03-05 09:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six – “Seems Too Ordinary”
You’d think that after my time spent running down mysteries and trouble, I’d have gotten used to the smell of corpses, but I don’t believe it’s a scent anyone can get used to. Nobody human, anyway. It’s a sort of rancid, acrid odor that cuts down to the bone marrow, pierces right into your soul as sharply as it can and re...
2024-03-04 08:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
November 10th, 2020
“You had to know this was a possibility, babe,” Linda told him as she brought the car deeper into New Eden, heading more towards the residences and away from the military buildings. “When you eggheads discovered that pairing people resulted in locking them out from others, it was always going to come to this, one way or ...
2024-03-02 12:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post