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Amazon release day!

Hello everyone! Not a chapter (yet), but I wanted to share this important announcement. The first book of String is now available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible!

You can grab a copy here: 2025-10-27 18:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post

String - Interjection 13.4

When the void shook, I knew Anomaly was about to throw us out.

“Twenty minutes, not bad,” Copycat mused as he stretched his arms out and cracked his knuckles. “I wonder what he’s been up to? Must’ve run into some trouble on the way...

String - Interjection 13.3

Gaea.

The name rang relentlessly like a bell in my mind. Seer perceived a connection between her and the earthquakes, and he wasn’t even awake to elaborate on it. 

The car was left in stunned silence after the hysteria ...

String - Interjection 13.2

The walk back to the car was unnervingly quiet.

Our task was clear: remove Mercury and do the same to Liberation before Pandora had a chance to retaliate. Unfortunately, the method was much less clear. We had no weaknesses to exploit and no ...

String - Interjection 13.1

“I never imagined I would be inviting the likes of any of you into my home.”

Prometheus regarded each one of us with a wary eye. Her old, tired eyes lingered on me the longest, but she made sure to make everyone feel a tad more uncomfort...

String - Identity Interlude: Eleanor

“In other news, relations between the general public and the ECU break down further as a lack of relief funding for the homes, businesses, and families affected by Grim’s rampage in Bayside continue to pile up—”

Eleanor swit...

String - Identity 12.10

With the danger gone for the time being, we all took a moment to catch our breath and nurse any wounds.

Copycat, Seer, and Prosperity had stepped away to converse privately, while Madhouse grouped around me. The exhaustion finally became too...

String - Identity 12.9

4000 Words

I surged into action, my movement systems launching me forward with a hiss of compressed air. 

Prometheus would back me up, and it wouldn’t be long before the rest of my team and the ECU Rookies would be joining the f...

String - Identity 12.8

Danger.

Every sense and survival instinct screamed at me as I watched more Pandora Supers emerge from thin air. I didn’t know who was responsible, but there was someone within their ranks who was capable of transporting them here ...

String - Identity 12.7

We didn’t know where Lucy was, but it didn’t take us long to find her.

I deployed two drones that had fit comfortably in the truck of my car, and they had done most of the heavy lifting in terms of scouting.

Having lost all my orig...

String - Identity 12.6

With a fight imminent, we prepared for the worst.

Anomaly transformed, and Vigil’s statues bled out of his gelatinous body. We wanted to be ready in case a fight broke out, so we had Anomaly absorb a few of her statues. Vigil could create ...

String - Identity 12.5

“So we’re heading out of town when things are about to get a whole lot worse, to find Lucy, who may or may not be out of her mind after getting dusted by her dad—and we’re somehow supposed to convince her to come back wit...

String - Identity 12.4

I found myself at the center of an endless expanse.

I felt… strangely at peace.

I observed the space before me—a nebula that grew and shrunk at the same time, defying sense and logic. The knowledge came quickly, plucked out of the ...

String - Identity 12.3

My suit was doing all it could to stabilize me, but despite that, my condition worsened the closer we got to my workshop. 

To my displeasure, it seems as though I had yet another thing added to my list of projects. I would need...

String - Identity 12.2

The warm red light thrummed with a power that resonated with me. I felt drawn to it like a man desperately searching for warmth in the middle of a blizzard. 

All I could think of was Lucy.

I couldn’t focus; every thought felt li...

String - Identity 12.1

I waited for the inevitable chaos to erupt. 

My mind was already racing, trying to figure out the best way to get Mom and Lucy to safety. I could trust Abby to try to separate Wildfire from the rest of us, but that wouldn’t save us fr...

String - Interrogation Interlude: Cyberspace

The last time humanity made another step toward the abyss was in early 1989. 

Early that year, the world watched as the sparks of an inevitable fourth World War flickered. The Pandora Initiative was gearing up for its ascension, set to ...

String - Interrogation 11.9

Dinner preparation was simple.

Roast chicken with some vegetables and gravy. I wasn’t trying to win a cooking competition, so I didn’t feel the need to go all out with something extravagant, especially not for Wildfire of all people. The...

String - Interrogation 11.8

All I wanted was some peace and quiet to focus on the things I wanted to work on.

Unraveling Richard’s power was going to take some time because I needed more data, and like Sam said, it wasn’t going to be an overnight process. Switchin...

String - Interrogation 11.7

I inhaled sharply as I splashed water on my face.

I repeated the process half a dozen times simply because of how refreshing it felt. I had spent hours inside my workshop and I was starting to get claustrophobic. Usually, I could lose days i...

String - Interception 11.6

When I woke up, I found Lucy sitting on the couch in our common room.

Her attention was fixed on the TV, so she hadn’t noticed me yet. I was on my way to my workshop to start unraveling Richard’s power when I stopped to see what she was...

String - Interrogation 11.5

Finally.

It felt like time slowed as a mixture of relief, satisfaction, and excitement washed over me.

Despite the danger of the situation, after months of worrying about what Mirage was capable of, I found a mea...

String - Interrogation 11.4

“Warning. Low Power: 20% remaining. Recommended power saving: Disable Cloaking.”

I blinked awake as adrenaline coursed through my system. I coughed and sputtered as I rolled onto my stomach, my chest feeling tight. It took me a ...

String - Interrogation 11.3

As Anomaly’s nightmarish scream echoed through the night, I knew the countdown had started.

“Warning. Sudden change in Walker and Sweeper pathing. Likely Cause: Local Disturbance.”

Yeah, the one I just made.

String - Interrogation 11.2

I strode back into the room, carrying two doses of sedative for the old couple.

For something so mundane, creating the syringes proved to be quite difficult. I tried to find some, but as it turns out, most people don’t own syringes, so I w...

String - Interrogation 11.1

Something inside me changed.

All unnecessary distractions were washed away by a surge of anger. This wasn’t a white hot rage like when Mirage duped me for the umpteenth time. No, this was a new kind of anger.

It was cold and silent.<...

String - Interception Interlude: Seraphim

Putting a content warning here for obvious reasons. Implications of sexual and physical abuse. General messed up psychopathic behavior from the character we all love to hate: Richard.

//----//

How was it possible to lo...

String - Interception 10.10

When I finished up my session, I came out to see that Abby was gone.

I was met by a soldier who explained that she was called away to an urgent meeting. Whatever it was about, I wasn’t privileged enough to know, but I sounded important at ...

String - Interception 10.9

Stars.

Thousand of glittering dots, all connected by a wispy thread.

I focused on one star and I was pulled in, zooming past all the others.

It was a simple computer outfitted with fancy ECU hardware. Its software wasn’t anythi...

String - Interception 10.8

I was ushered out of my last class at the end of the day to see a blacked-out SUV parked in the school parking lot. It was remarkably similar to the car Francis had driven Lucy and I home in.

Climbing inside, I was able to get a feel for the...