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Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.17 - Legwork And Calls

Loren has never been to Yurilao. To be fair, he’d never been to much of the other parts of Selurong. When he’d been younger, he’d been too busy going back and forth between home and school, and keeping Harmony out of trouble. They’d gone t...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.16 - Free To Good Homes

Loren hadn’t actually had a plan for what to do after all the plamo figures started raising their hands. He also severely underestimated how creepy it would be to see so many seemingly-inanimate dolls simply start moving. All over ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.15 - Just Ask

“Loren, Harmony, Malory, can I talk to you three for a second? Just a quick word, don’t worry,” Steve said as Loren was packing his lunch containers into his backpack and was about to go buy some softdrinks. As the one who didn’t mind walk...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.14 - A Slice Of Life

The next morning, Loren woke up to the sound of the alarm on his phone ringing from under this pillow. He groaned, keeping his eyes closed as he groped for the treacherous slab of electronics. Fumbling as his phone continued to play the theme of a...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.13 - Not A Visitor

Nancy Bayan was someone Loren had only heard off from hearsay, mostly from Harmony being fangirlish and slightly stalkery. A Symbol of Honor—as they were called these days, since ‘Righteousness’ was pretty long and not as well regarded anymo...

3/11/24 Update

So, just some announcements. We're coming to the end of the year, and just like everyone else, IRL gets pretty busy for me. So unfortunately, I have to announce some weeks where I won't be posting anything because Christmas and Christmas prep. To ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.12 - Plague

In his 22 years of life, Loren had been in his share of fights. Most had taken place before he’d turned twelve, back in grade school when the consequences for them weren’t, in hindsight, very dire. Parental disapproval, revoked privileges, get...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.11 - Keres

The cars on the road were already at a dead stop when Loren stepped out his building and into the cool, predawn gloom. The sky was already turning blue from the sun just over the horizon, and he could feel the sun’s energy just over the horizon ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun and Profit! S.01 - The Symbol Of Despair

Set a week after the first chapter

It was a perfectly normal day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and Harmony Riana Adlawan—Hari to her best friend, because once upon a time b...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.10 - Emergency Day Off

The next morning, Loren was in the middle of packing his lunch—he was at the worksite today—when his phone started blaring its emergency alert tone. Sighing, he picked it up, even though the alerts almost never applied to him. Still, if a kere...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.09 - Dolls And Spirits

Loren had thought that finding corroborating evidence for the idea of figurines becoming tsukumogami outside of Amatsushima wuld be difficult. After all, if it was a thing that happened, surely he’d have heard of it as being common before now, r...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.08 - Preliminary Assessment Meeting

“Well, we know we’re dealing with a real haunting,” Malory said as she daintily used a knife to cut her muffin into neat little pieces. “I didn’t see anyone hiding, although there are a lot of those toys under the chairs that they must h...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.07 - Mrs. Halili’s Story

“It took us a while to notice it happening, because at first we thought it was just someone locking the screen door. Normally we leave it open so people could get out fast, but that month, whenever I tried to go outside to tend to the garden or ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.06 - The Bright Little House

“Hey, you okay, Lor?” Harmony asked as they sat in Steve’s car.

Loren clutched at his backpack, reminding himself he had two bottles of oil in there. Also his lunch and a change of clothes, but he wasn’t going to use those for fuel u...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.05 - A Job To Keep

It turned out that Sara was quite willing to take a little time from her morning to press the button on the rice cooker, provided he’d loaded it with rice and water the night before. She was also quite happy to taste even simple corned beef if t...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.04 - The Construction Worker Diet

It had been some time since Loren had needed to explain what his magic was like. Fortunately, Sam listened more attentively than his little cousins, and didn’t interrupt him ask is he could shoot lasers from his hands (yes, but he didn’t know ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.03 - Cement Mixer

Not everything worked so smoothly as that. For example, it took Loren a while to realize that he’d need a lot of cooking oil for this little bit of alchemy, and the bottles he’d brought with him wouldn’t be enough. He had less than a liter o...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.02 - First Day At Work

Loren woke up to the sound of phone ringing from under this pillow. He groaned, keeping his eyes closed as he groped for the treacherous piece of electronics. He fumbled as his phone continued to play the theme of an anime he’d liked seven years...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.01 - Useful Skills

Loren woke up to the sound of his alarm on his phone ringing from under this pillow. He groaned, keeping his eyes closed as he groped for the treacherous piece of electronics. He fumbled as his phone continued to play the theme of an anime he’d ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.9 - Now We Get To The Central Premise

“Thank you for your help,” Loren said as he shook hands with Steve and then Malory, pocketing the receipt he’d just been given.

“Glad to see a happy client,” Steve said with a smile as they stood next to the car that had brought th...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.8 - Bargaining with Spirits

“I’m sorry for bringing it up,” Steve said, sounding like a kindly grandfather—well, uncle—when the ghost finally looked up. “But there’s something we need to talk to you about.” There was a thump as he set down the one chair Loren...

Demesne Snippets 12: Fatherly Thoughts

Lying in bed next to his wife and children, Orris started feeling for the water bowl out of a lifetime of habit before he recalled where he was and he didn’t need to wash the colors from his eyes before he opened them. He still gently patted at ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.7 - Necromancy for Non-Necromancers

Maybe he should have paid more attention to Harmony’s flowchart.

Loren watch as Steve carefully used the key to unlock Apartment 409. He and Harmony stayed well away from the door lest the ghost react. The spiritualist cautiously opened th...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.6 - Preparations

The next morning, Loren once more found himself in Happy Homes. It wasn’t as unreasonably early as last time since he wasn’t commuting with Harmony so she could show him how to get there, so he wasn’t feeling half-asleep, so he was able to u...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.5 - Deductions

After the first guy—who’d never given his name and kept his answers brief and concise—they’d moved on to room 408, whose residents had been a young oni couple. The two had been far more vocal and friendly than the other guy, introducing th...

Demesne Snippets 11: Stone Setting

Trees sometimes had uses. Maybe.

“Is this what you need?” Shana said, holding out a broken branch. It was slim, the bark still soft and the wood inside wet and pale. The stump was a brush-like mess, as the little girl—who...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.4 - Starting The Investigation Procedural Sequence

With the arrangements made and most of the work officially foisted off on Harmony, Loren had to deal with the rest of the consequences of technically being homeless again. He finally went back home—it was the middle of the day, so his parents we...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.3 - The Consequences Of Isolation

“…and then Harmony suggested I speak to you,” Loren finished. “She said you could help me find a way to use the apartment by… well, finding a way to live with the ghost.”

Steve nodded, taking a sip of his coffee. “I see.” He ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.2 - Welcome To Happy Homes

Fortunately, Auntie Ganda and her husband Mang Tetsu were cool with him staying over another night. It wasn’t the first time they’d had Loren overnight, though the last time he’d stayed here had been when he and Harmony were eighteen and the...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 0.1 - The Lease Didn't Mention This…

In the middle of his first night sleeping in his new apartment, Loren Abo woke up from troubled dreams to find himself shivering violently from the cold. He gasped, arms flailing as he instinctively tried to swim out of whatever cold water he was ...