Part Six – “This Is Penance”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been th...
2023-10-22 22:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixteen
December 21st, 2020
Los Angeles around Christmastime was an odd place to be. Normally, everyone went home for the holidays, and it left Los Angeles a mostly empty area, because the old adage wa...
2023-10-20 07:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostI'm about halfway through QT2:16 right now and will have it either before I go to bed tonight, or sometime tomorrow midday. We've got Andy in LA! So I do want to get that right. We'll have a timeskip coming up relatively soon in t...
2023-10-19 00:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostWith only a few weeks until the wedding, Kevin was so glad his responsibilities ended with attending the wedding. He’d offered to contribute as much or as little as Fatima wanted, but it turned out that wh...
2023-10-17 00:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Garney – 3/11/2017 – Sunday – 05:35 am
“Christ,” Danny said to himself, looking on with binoculars as a mysterious figure left Max, disappeared behind the house and walked off into the underbrush aro...
2023-10-12 10:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm doing my best to get through this, but some weeks, the muse is against you, and it's like pushing into the wind. I'll get through this Brewster's Brood release tonight before I crash, and will try and blast through Bre...
2023-10-12 06:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostMan, literally nothing is where I left it. Heh. So Patreon sprung a redesign on us, and I'm still figuring out where everything's at. There's a "collections" feature which I'm going to try and fiddle with at some point over the next few days - I s...
2023-10-05 06:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostIntermission Three – Kai
December 20th, 2020 – Hamburg, Germany
The snow was lightly drifting down from the sky, and Kai Schumann stepped out from the Emilienstraßestation headin...
2023-10-05 01:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: The Devil In Me (Felicia)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
In the period of time between when Starfall arrived and when my next wife-to-bed was scheduled to arrive,...
2023-10-01 20:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, formi...
2023-10-01 20:17:41 +0000 UTC View PostPart Six – “This Is Penance”
December 11th, 2020
Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been th...
2023-10-01 06:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post(UPDATE: Apparently I didn't a
2023-10-01 06:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three – “Willful Manchild”
Here’s a bit of Bay Area trivia you probably don’t know – Treasure Island has a smaller island a couple of miles to the north of it. You won’t find it on any maps. In fact, no...
2023-09-30 06:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two – “Goddamn Apples”
It wasn’t the first time I’d found myself in the checkout line of a Safeway a few hours after sunset with a bag of apples, a package of carrots and a bag of sugar cubes, and I was qui...
2023-09-28 06:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a pretty crazy week. Maybe you've heard? As such, there have been a shitload of da...
2023-09-27 23:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
For the next several hours, Ali chatted me up with questions designed to fill in the one thing all the data about me couldn’t justifiably reveal – motive. It was the hardest thing for data analytics to fill in ...
2023-09-27 00:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostBack from vacation, and California's on fire all over again. It's been a wild couple of days, with me having to provide a bunch of rides for friends to SFO, which has eaten up a ton of the last three days, as several of them either go out...
2023-09-21 05:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
When Will woke up, the first thing he felt were cold iron shackles around his wrists and ankles, but those weren’t the only bindings that he had. There were bands around his forearms, his biceps, his...
2023-09-20 03:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
“You knew my father?” Will asked as the massive wall of a man sat down across from him in the Burger King booth. He was just a solid rectangle of flesh beneath the heavy cloth, and it made Will jus...
2023-09-20 03:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
November 2nd, 2020
The Monday following the party, Phil had gotten into the office extremely early, wanting to be around before the majority of people had rolled in. He wasn’t a morning person by ...
2023-09-19 08:43:54 +0000 UTC View PostSo it'll be pretty light this week, because I'm in the middle of vacation, writing this update on WiFi in a cabin at a resort lodge in the middle of the central north forest.
A few days left in the next poll, but the current leader is ...
2023-09-13 21:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nine
To call the planet where Cola’s daughter was incarcerated backwater would’ve been extremely generous. There were heavy duty automated ships and mining robots trafficking through the area, but actual people s...
2023-09-11 14:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifteen
December 19th, 2020
Sleeping had been difficult, but before they’d crashed for the night, things had looked like they were stabilizing in New Zealand, even as disastrous as it was. Current es...
2023-09-08 07:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe world is a crazy place. I'm in the back half of QT2:15 and will have that tomorrow afternoon. Friday or Saturday, Before The Storm won out the T4+ votes so it'll be the first You Decide! of the month.
Ne...
2023-09-07 06:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)
A “Detachable” story
By Devin McTaggart
The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, formi...
2023-09-05 06:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostDanny Garney – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 10:47 pm
Danny ended the call and walked back towards the backyard deck where all the action was going on. They’d gotten Max into three different new partners over the las...
2023-09-02 09:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostYou'd think I'd remember lessons I've learned before, but no, sometimes I still let writer's block get the better of me. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Brewster's Brood, and anticipate dropping that probably tomorro...
2023-08-30 23:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Note: I generally don’t do ‘content warnings,’ but I feel like in this one particular case, I need to make an exception. The following chapter is meant to be highly reminiscent of the events...
2023-08-26 08:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis heat is brutal, my dudes.
That said, I also realized that sometimes writer's block means I should adapt and shift to other projects. I took a break and wrote the first 2k words of Neon Stonehenge 2 (rel...
2023-08-24 09:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two – “Goddamn Apples”
It wasn’t the first time I’d found myself in the checkout line of a Safeway a few hours after sunset with a bag of apples, a package of carrots and a bag of sugar cubes, and I was qui...
2023-08-24 01:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post