NowhereStars

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-7

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It's here! Thank you all for waiting - I'm very sorry again for the delay! This week's password is 'cocoon'.

Chapter delay

Owing to a perfect storm of much-bigger-than-usual editing plans for this current set of chapters, travel, and sickness, this week's advance chapter will be a little late. My editor and I are currently doing our best to get it finished today, and ...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-6

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It's another one of these weird formatting chapters! Yay!

From now on, every patron chapter will be posted on th...

My Own and Only Light 4-5

“I’m not asking all these weird linguistics questions just to ask them, you know. Sure, the world isn’t gonna explode yesterday if we don’t figure them out, but there’s still important implications,” Isobel said.

“All your ques...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-4

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More weird stuff this week! Read it over here on the main site - the password is...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-3

(No weird formatting notes this week. Enjoy, everyone!)

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Who is this Keeper? They can clearly sense the Harbinger, but what exactly is it like for them? I couldn’t just tell them this is my kill and I’ve got it handled, could I?...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-2

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Same note as last time - this chapter contains weird stuff I can't do on Patreon!...

In The Dark, We're All The Same 4-1

This chapter contains some weird formatting that I wasn't able to manage in Patreon's woefully limited text editor. Because of that, rather than post a simplified form of it here, I've added it to the main site early! It's currently password-prote...

Where We Come From 3-4

The faint stench grows only slightly stronger as I follow it, but eventually, its trail does end. It’s on the outer edge of the Fields, the central urban district, centered in a single mid-sized craftsman house. I sense five mostly-healthy peopl...

Where We Come From 3-3

Esonei’s cluster of faces melts into the ground, and its ghostly voice grows louder. I reach out and draw my infection out from the quivering heap of its body, the way I ripped it out of Yurfaln, but it’s already too far gone. It’s dying jus...

Where We Come From 3-2

A dirt path winds through the field west of the hospital, where the spring flowers are well into withering and dying. The sickly-sweet smell of wilt is much milder than the way my senses interpret ill people, but right now, it feels like it’s 2022-06-29 04:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Where We Come From 3-1

New Claris is quietest on moonless nights, beneath the stars’ pale light, but a city is never completely empty and still. It’s never lifeless. I mean, unless it’s abandoned out in a wasteland with no plants or animals for miles or something....

Duet 2-7

“I’m heading out! Bye!” Shona shouted through her house.

“Don’t slam the—”

Shona was out the door before Mom could speak the last word. As she left, she turned around, pulled the front door all the way open, then smashed ...

Other Horizons 2-6

Life surges into me through pale green tendrils. Nothing could be less like my regular infusions. A dozen showers of warm rain fall through my body in all directions, pooling into my wounds until I can hardly feel them at all. Still it flows, fill...

Other Horizons 2-5

Irakkia’s presence fades into the background noise of the Wound, even as its voice lingers in my skull. Where is it going? With the way this place works, can I even trust that it even is going? What could it be doing?

None of that...

Other Horizons 2-4

Through blurred vision, I watch the darkening sky just above the tower start to crack. Glowing fractures arc through it  in a shifting rainbow of colors like flashes of prismatic lightning. Out and out they spike, each new fissure opening wit...

Other Horizons 2-3

There’s a pressure in the air inside the Soul Sanctuary. It's nothing harsh or really heavy, just… strange. It’s a faint phantom sensation of something like being underwater, if water only weighed a tiny bit more than air, and comes with the...

Other Horizons 2-2

“Well! It’s very very interesting that you should happen to call right this moment, becaaaaaause…” Shona says, then trails off into silence. “...as luck would have it, I’ve recently…” A longer pause. “Yes! Yes in fact I do! There...

Nowhere Stars is now on Top Web Fiction!

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Hi, everyone! Just a little announcement before today's update — I've added the story to Top Web Fict...

Other Horizons 2-1

Sunlight is just starting to flood through the gauzy curtains when I wake up choking for air. Hot, sharp pangs burn through my chest. My head spins as I try to sit up. I’m breathing the wrong way, I know I am, but it’s a losing struggle to cor...

Death Inverted 1-7

The floor’s charge nurse insists on all the poking and testing and measurements she can think of. They obviously won’t find anything, but I can’t really tell them that. I tried to think of any decent explanation I could use as an excuse, but...

Death Inverted 1-6

It’s too dark to see inside, and the eerie green glow shifting over my tarot spread isn’t enough to illuminate anything. The air here is somehow too humid and too thin at the same time. It clings to me as I move, its damp warmth a sudden shift...

Accelerated update schedule

To everyone who’s reading so far, hello! Thank you so much for your time and I hope you’re enjoying my work!

I’m eager to get the story to a point where there’s enough of a sample out for any new readers who happen by to decide if th...

Death Inverted 1-5

My vision twists in on itself, giving way to the sight of nothing at all. I’m hurtling downward through an endless, lightless black void — falling, but with no air rushing past me. My nerves prickle with the sense of being watched from afar, o...

Death Inverted 1-4

“That was… does everyone have the dreams?”

“Mostly. All of my children do.”

I look down at myself. No time seems to have passed at all during my dream, but it’s followed me back into the waking world. The regalia m...

Death Inverted 1-3

White. I look up at a blindingly white world. A medical monitor beeps, softly and steadily, from no source I can place. For a moment, I think I’m alone in a completely featureless place, but I’m not floating or falling — there is a surface b...

Death Inverted 1-2

The lectures only ever said that Harbingers were terrifying monsters and we’d know them when we saw them. That didn’t do them the least bit of justice. The thing in the halls was unforgettable and too awful to remember at the same time. Thinki...