Elijah lay beside Sadie, his fingers tracing the line of her latest scar. Before she’d decided to delve into the Primal Realm known as the Eternal War, her skin had been smooth and unblemished. She’d endured plenty of injuries in h...
2025-05-18 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sadie had entered the Primal Realm known as the Eternal War, she’d had ten thousand people behind her. Now, nearly half of those people were dead. At last count, they’d lost three thousand, nine hundred-and-eight-two people, a...
2025-05-17 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen bent down, her face only an inch from the surface of the metal, as she inspected the engraving. Courtesy of Precise Eye, she saw every imperfection as if she was looking at it under a microscope. Unfortunately, she couldn’t us...
2025-05-16 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTalia stood at the head of the boat, her stomach twisting in knots as she saw Zeke disappear into the void. She knew he would come out just fine, but still, she worried for his fate. After all, he was on his way to challenge a greater ...
2025-05-16 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI've mentioned this before (regrettably), but there's a certain type of person that will read the first few chapters of this series and become enraged at the inclusion of a lesbian couple. Or maybe it's the nervous banter that makes them angry (th...
2025-05-15 16:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post“He really is damaged, isn’t he?” Carmen said, mopping sweat from her forehead. “Like a lost puppy.”
“A lost puppy that could probably level this entire city if he wanted to,” Elijah pointed out as he sat in Carmen’s of...
2025-05-15 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“How much longer?”
“A few hours,” was Iris’ response to Zeke’s question. Her attention never wavered from whatever she saw through the grey mist. Zeke had learned that she had some skill that let her navigate the void...
2025-05-15 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“And that’s the frozen glade,” Elijah said, grinning as he watched the dogs chasing foxes in circles around the Frozen Oak. All except Sophie, who looked on impassively, almost as if she disapproved of her packmates’ antics. Pe...
2025-05-14 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostOscar was drowning – not in water, but rather, in the dense sea of ethera that hung so thick in the air that it felt almost solid. It was invigorating and suffocating, both in equal measure.
But the dogs loved it.
He coul...
2025-05-14 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing?” came Oscar’s voice from the other side of the room.
Elijah looked up to see that the other man had cleaned himself up – at least a little. His hair was still matted and unkempt, and his beard fell to mid-c...
2025-05-13 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLayers.
That was the word that kept popping into Zeke’s mind, though he couldn’t really understand why. Certainly, the notion that reality was comprised of one tier after another wasn’t new. He’d known it since the very b...
2025-05-13 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostGun’s name was well-earned.
Technically, he was Gunnar Lindstrom, but even going back to his middle school days when he’d preferred to spend his days out in the woods and hunting whatever he could find, everyone had called him Gun. ...
2025-05-12 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You might not want to stand so close to the edge,” came a voice from nearby. Zeke turned to see Tucker leaning against the deck’s inner railing. Improbably, he still chose to dress like a stereotypical pirate, complete with a tr...
2025-05-12 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostElijah nearly stumbled as he stepped through the portal and back into the real world, largely due to the incredibly sparse ethera in the area. The sharp decrease in ethereal density stole his breath, leaving him feeling like a fish out of wa...
2025-05-11 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNara Eski tel’Amoris sat on the beach, staring out across the waves at the world she had adopted as her own. She could feel everything around her – at least within a few feet – courtesy of One with Nature, and the sensory overload was ...
2025-05-10 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel leaped backward, using Protection of the Forest. A giant hand of twisted roots and mud erupted from the ground, wrapping its six-fingered grip around the troll. It squeezed – not nearly hard enough to kill the durable creature...
2025-05-09 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostZeke sat across from Talia, his elbows on his knees as he stared intently at her. Only a few feet separated them, but to him, it felt like an eternal gulf stood between them. For her part, Talia remained silent as she stared at the flo...
2025-05-09 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the trip back to Stillstone was representative of what they’d come to expect from the desolate landscape. Elijah wasn’t certain if they’d killed all the native beasts in the area or if they’d simply fled the destruction.&...
2025-05-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostZeke clenched his fists as he stared out at the battlefield. Initially, he’d thought that the fight had been fairly one-sided, with his people coming out on top. However, when Simeon fled, his army had gone wild. That increased...
2025-05-08 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Elijah felt upon the completion of the spell-driven transformation was that the new form was roughly bipedal. Not like his human or cindrandir forms. It took a moment for him to recognize the difference, but when he did...
2025-05-07 15:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostA quick announcement first...
We didn't quite reach the ranking goals in the first day, but I think that can be explained by two factors. First, I honestly didn't expect to reach either of them. It hope...
2025-05-07 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Elijah’s ears rang, the high-pitched sound drowning everything else out. He shook his head, the motion emitting a cloud of dust before he planted his palms on the uneven ground and heaved himself upright.
Or that was what he tried to...
2025-05-07 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe world shuddered, and Chelsea Callahan struggled to keep her feet as everything was thrown into upheaval. In the distance, thousands of dead giants carpeted the ground, but as disturbing as that was, she was far more concerned with the ba...
2025-05-07 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Elijah wanted to move, he could really move. He’d known that for a long time. What he truly found interesting was that the dogs could keep up. Maybe that shouldn’t have been surprising, given that dogs had always been fa...
2025-05-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The day is finally here! Protector of the Grove (Book One of Path of Dragons) is now available on Kindle, Audible, and Paperback! I'm very much hoping for a big release (presale numbers look strong), but if anyone wants to help out, slap a ratin...
2025-05-06 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe world erupted into an explosion of water and force, sweeping through the army with far more kinetic energy than the tidal wave that they’d barely managed to endure. The shields shattered, and everyone was thrown from their feet.
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2025-05-06 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to remind you all that Protector of the Grove (Path of Dragons 1) is releasing tomorrow on Kindle, Audible, and Paperback!
Also, r...
2025-05-05 15:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you want to do?” asked Jari, his hands on his hips as he scanned the battlefield before them. There were thousands of combatants down there – mostly hobgoblins, but enough ogres to keep them honest. But none of them had ...
2025-05-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few weeks, Zeke tried his best to be there for his friends and family, and to some degree, he was successful. He knew he didn’t fit. He could feel that with every fiber of his being. Everyone around him was made o...
2025-05-05 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostElijah fell.
Instinctively, he shifted into the Shape of the Sky, but it wasn’t long before a rock smashed into his back. It sent him cartwheeling into a glassy hunk of pyramid, which in turn knocked him backward into what was left o...
2025-05-04 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post