Fae set the hammer down beside him on a bench. He did it as though the metal and wood weighed almost nothing, yet the gesture made the floor shake with the force. He tilted his head to one side, wiping sweat away from his face with the oth...
2025-06-25 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Interlude
Avery was small.
Of all the experiences in her life, this was new. In that regard, Quinn's tragic accident had given her an incredible gift. Humanity was so small a price to pay for e...
2025-06-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Grey-17 did not find out where she could acquire bits that day, or indeed the next several. When Time Turner tried to explain the subject, she found it so incredibly complex as to very quickly lose track of what he was trying to explain. T...
2025-06-20 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Julian left his tower not long after, before the warm jacket could make him start sweating. He walked, though floating would probably be faster. Maybe one day he would get around to learning.
The halls students used ...
2025-06-18 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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"I know what would do this," said a voice, from not far away. Quinn turned to look, staring through the broken trees and dead branches. A shadow lingered in the trees, floating at about his head level. Not alive, though not dead. Sable, ey...
2025-06-17 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Lyra had already seen at least a little of what the strange creatures of "Rome" were capable of. But to hear it from a changeling, and a bug with no prior exposure to what they were like in their natural state—that was something else ent...
2025-06-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Julian always got what he wanted.
It had always been this way, from his very earliest days. Back then, his world included only Aerie, his parents, and the house steward Ilene.
Every one of them...
2025-06-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It was a long way to the surface; a long way through twisting tunnels, confusing passages and abandoned buildings.
In another life, Quinn would've made that trip up slowly, exploring every inch of the strange facilit...
2025-06-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Thomas was in their makeshift library when the sound of many voices broke his fragile concentration. It wasn't a difficult task to get him to put the magic aside: Thomas hadn't ever been an academic—or able to concentrate on tasks requir...
2025-06-06 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The strange ruin was unlike anything Coraline had ever imagined. Its many stone and metal walls each bore the marks of fine craftsmanship, beyond anything she had ever seen in her life.
Yet there were many signs of v...
2025-06-04 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Quinn shifted, groaning as pain racked through his body. His head pounded, and distant voices magnified until they were shrill screams. "Just a little quieter, please."
He tucked his knees up close, wrapping his arms...
2025-06-03 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey pones! Brief one this week, not a lot changing, so I'll be brief.
Last month I had hoped to post New Way Home to fimfiction, but decided to hold off a little longer so it could get more art. It's one of those stories that's probably goin...
2025-06-01 21:28:07 +0000 UTC
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Kit was the last one left on the bridge. She stayed in her seat, helmet tethered to her by a short elastic cable. She was still there when they unclogged the coolant pump and air flowed back into the cockpit. She was still there after the ...
2025-06-01 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Coraline sat up in the dirt, holding Lamplight as close to her chest as she could. She spun in place, staring back at the person lingering in the doorway.
The lights were off behind her of course, and Coraline had li...
2025-05-28 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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It didn't take long to gather everyone together. Sickly Astrid and young Manny were both asleep, so not hard to carry into a clearing surrounded by false trees.
Quinn floated in the center of their makeshift circle, ...
2025-05-27 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The acceleration hit Kit far sharper than any blow she'd ever felt. She could still move—but every subtle twitch of her limbs felt like lifting a planet. Been on Mara too long. Got used to the low gravity.
But...
2025-05-25 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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What was Coraline supposed to do when her whole world ended? There were never any instructions for something so horrible—nothing her father ever told her could prepare her for it, and she had no other family members to do that important ...
2025-05-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Quinn was back in his apartment.
"His" and "apartment" were both exaggerations in this case. An impossible Silurian civilization of cat Pokémon had given him the space to live during his time at the "hospital" for t...
2025-05-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Kit was the last one to reach the launch elevator.
Maddie was waiting near the bottom, dressed in the full protection of her EVA gear. She waved as Kit approached, grinning wide. Despite the spotlights shining on the...
2025-05-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The secret of reading was, it turned out, very hard indeed.
There was so much more to be learned than one bug could puzzle out in a few hours, even with the help of a friendly pony who believed she was actually someo...
2025-05-16 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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If she could have, Coraline would've granted all her father's wishes.
She tried every day—rising with the sun each morning, before he was awake. She flipped through her mother's recipe cards, searching for somethin...
2025-05-14 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Quinn took a few minutes to catch his breath, there atop the upper balcony. There were no chairs or cushions here, just the rails and the security hardware facilitating the way back inside. He sat on the edge, not caring about the dirty lo...
2025-05-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The Institute was no stranger to parties. Even before Kit took the Director's office, she attended her fair share. On a planet with no other civilization, where nothing had happened for over ten thousand years, it was up to them to cr...
2025-05-11 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Lyra was no expert in war. There was little she could offer to the discussion of their siege, no secret historical mysteries she could solve or questions for her to answer. Mostly, she was there to watch and listen, and only occasionally o...
2025-05-09 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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For the second time since arriving in Alto Mare, Hayden crossed it in a canal boat. This one was even larger than the one Lord Moonstone used, with considerable space in the back for passengers.
There were four of them in total, though room ...
2025-05-07 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Quinn found a fully automatic door waiting at the upper balcony, made of a sturdy-looking metal. Lights came on as he approached, and a camera followed his movements, pivoting as his antennae twitched.
A second later...
2025-05-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Kit was on her back in the hospital bed, wearing only her underclothes. Even the suit’s inner layers would interfere with the procedure. Despite its name, the scan was far more than putting her through a machine to get a few readings.
2025-05-04 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Lin didn't mention the date to Thomas that night—or to anypony else, for that matter. Not because she feared him telling Winston anything about her past—if he'd honored her wishes this long, she had no reason to think he would change his mind ...
2025-05-02 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Today’s a huge day for me, one I’ve been waiting on for way too long. I finally published a book!
2025-05-01 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Hayden and Liz couldn't hide their nature during the trip through Alto Mare to meet with its ruling family. But even if Liz had somehow managed to master the illusions that quickly, she wouldn't want to. The entire point of this transformation was...
2025-04-30 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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