I want to fly like an eagle,
Let my spirit carry me”
- The Steve Miller Band
“’Cause I’m free as a bird now,
And this bird you cannot change”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
“I wanna free fall out i...
2024-12-02 14:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert Head, Victoria, British Columbia - June 16, 2043, 11:23 PM
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The wooden floorboards creak under my feet—I can practically smell the unholy mix of body spray and thirty te...
2024-11-30 14:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostLocation Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Reality mends itself.
My Stability’s still shot. The Voiceless Singer’s still here. The magma-colored thing has consumed half th...
2024-11-29 14:48:21 +0000 UTC View Post[Anomaly] PROVISIONAL Entity - Voiceless Singer
[Status] Uncontained
[Type] Unknown
[Danger] ...
2024-11-27 15:08:41 +0000 UTC View PostAlice has always been the smartest girl I know.
But Sora’s a genius.
She got really into Sun Tzu last year—into maneuver and strategy and how to apply them to get to her goals. Not that she knows what her goa...
2024-11-25 14:16:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
A long time ago, in eighth grade last year, Sora and I got caught smoking under the bleachers.
We didn’t exactly get caught, really. We started a fire. The end result was the same, though.
But we di...
2024-11-23 14:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostMath was always my favorite subject.
It didn’t lie. It didn’t play favorites. If you understood how to divide, you could divide anything—except zero. If you knew the quadratic formula, you could graph parabolas. If you—
You get...
2024-11-22 14:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostLocation Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Twenty minutes later, I’m back in Provisional Reality ARC, without Alice this time. She’s on her way back to her room in SHOCKS Headquarters to slee...
2024-11-20 14:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostLocation Unknown, Provisional Reality ARC, Time Unknown
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Lieutenant Olivia Rodriguez hit the far side of the merge portal on her hands and knees; she’d learned from last time, and her unbuckled helmet and fa...
2024-11-18 15:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostSHOCKS Headquarters, Victoria, British Columbia - June 15, 2043, 9:41 PM
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Alice pulled on her pajamas in Claire’s bathroom, even though the night was still young. It wasn’t like she had anything else to do...
2024-11-15 14:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostI actually tried out for the middle school soccer team at Landsdowne.
That was the first time I met Alice’s best friend, Candice. She was a year younger than my sister. Maybe she still is; I don’t know if she’s survived this or not. Tr...
2024-11-14 15:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be two additional chapters over the next two days as I work on the first deadline for Writathon. Enjoy the chapters.
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Downtown Victoria, British Columbia - June 15, 2043, 8:04 AM 2024-11-13 16:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
[SHOCKS Internal Communications Log] EVG Control Zone, August 13, 2032
Trooper Sarah Evans; Director Zoltan Carroll
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Carroll: Status report. Now.
Evans: We’ve su...
2024-11-11 14:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe amount of free processing power shocked James.
He hadn’t realized how much of his attention was on Claire and SHOCKS Victora/Vancouver Island until the girl vanished. Thousands of free processing loops had just appeared out of nowhere,...
2024-11-09 14:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostLocation Unknown, Location Unknown, Time Unknown
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Strauss’s feed to his drone cut off instantly. One second, he could see the red-lit room he’d been investigating near the ship’s stern. The next, half hi...
2024-11-08 14:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostOn my nature trip up to Ucluelet, we spent a lot of time on the beach. My friends—or at least, my classmates—wanted to find hermit crabs. I tried to tell them that hermit crabs were more tropical, but they didn’t listen to me.
Hello Readers,
I am participating in both NaNoWriMo and Writathon this month with this story, so expect more frequent updates (between 3 and 4 a week, ideally). We'll return to a slower posting rate next month.
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2024-11-04 14:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostI know a few things now.
When I’m in over my head, for example. That one’s easy to figure out; all I have to do is look around. But I also know from trying to fix things that Alice is the only reason things are even as okay as they are. ...
2024-10-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostVictoria, British Columbia - April 13, 2033, 4:23 PM
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Dinner’s going to be chicken nuggets, ketchup, and frozen veggies.
And probably prunes.
I’m busy sitting in Alice’s lap ...
2024-10-21 13:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Truth Club used to listen to music under the bleachers.
It only happened on days when the soccer team wasn’t practicing, and only once we were done sharing our truths. Keith provided the music most of the time, and he had the weirdest ...
2024-10-18 13:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostRobert Pendleton shivered in the armchair.
Everything was fucked up. Everything was wrong.
Everything hurt.
This wasn’t his La-Z Boy, and the can he was sipping on tasted too sweet. The hint of Budweiser mixed in the a...
2024-10-14 12:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt wakes up.
The world around it is null and void. An empty space. Not black, not gray, but truly colorless. Just like it’s always been. It swims in the void; it is the void, and the void is it.
It’s been waiting a long time in thi...
2024-10-07 14:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Readers. Today, Magical Girl Undergrad's second book came out on Audible and Kindle. If you're curious about some of my other writing, but couldn't get started before it all stubbed, this is a great time to jump into it. You can find it...
2024-10-01 14:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello. Due to forces beyond my comprehension (but also entirely outside of my control), Monday's chapter will appear on Tuesday instead. I'm going to be traveling, and while it's written, I won't have time to edit it the way it needs to be edi...
2024-09-27 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe sickest I’ve been was in fourth grade.
Mr. Clyde sent me home. Of course, Dad couldn’t come pick me up—we didn’t have a car, and he couldn’t have found the keys even if we did. Even so, it was pretty obvious that I had chicken ...
2024-09-23 13:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostFired this one off a day early. Whoops. Enjoy, though!
The toughest part about Alice’s Mom mask isn’t that it’s a lie.
It’s that she’s only three years older than me. With that kind of age gap, you can’t use...
2024-09-19 18:32:46 +0000 UTC View PostI should never have taken Mom’s dress.
SHOCKS probably has my cargo pants somewhere, too. And my shoes—but they can keep those, or, hopefully, burn them. They were holey, and they stank. The ones they gave me with the oversized RST armor...
2024-09-16 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostSHOCKS Headquarters, Victoria, British Columbia - June 6, 2043, 11:37 PM
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“Three. Two. One.”
The window exploded, and Strauss swung on his rope, rolling into the room before the glass had even finish...
2024-09-13 15:48:54 +0000 UTC View PostOne thing I haven’t figured out about thinnings, merges, and reality-hopping is why it always smells so funky.
It’s roses and machine oil, or daffodils, or lavender and rot. And I don’t know why. James doesn’t pick it up except passi...
2024-09-09 13:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostSora, Keith, and I were always careful about the single cigarette we’d smoke under the bleachers.
No smoking when people were sitting over us. No smoking if it hadn’t rained in a couple of days. Put the butts out when we’d finish. Keep...
2024-09-03 13:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post