Howdy. I'm still alive, as you might've guessed.
Long story short, a mosquito got cute and dengue fucked me up.
I didn't have to go to the hospital more than two times, but it left me with little stamina and slight health comp...
2024-03-19 06:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostFarah had been kind enough to drop me off at my apartment building.
After two days of constant driving, I was beyond exhausted. Some of my bruises from the heist had yet to finish healing, and I could swear my bones creaked when I moved. I t...
2024-02-23 21:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post“AAAAAAALL BYYYYY MYYYY-SEEEEEELF!” I sang, as loudly and as off-tune as possible, along with the radio which I’d just turned to max volume.
Farah, who...
2024-01-31 22:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twelve
Michael sighed with relief.
Now that they had left arid sands behind in favor of dry dirt, the air was turning cooler. Soon, they would be surrounded and shadowed by flora. In his mind, it was worth the ...
2023-07-12 06:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eleven
After a while, John, Chris and Moss got bored of playing futbol and came over to fetch Luke and retry their attempts at making him feel better.
They found him sitting next to Sawyer, eagerly talking her ...
2023-07-04 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ten
It was about three hours later when the Council meeting ended.
The matter of adopting Kingston Hill’s research was revisited and argued multiple times during the meeting, once a topic was exhausted, but t...
2023-06-27 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nine
The Head Councilman’s office was in the borough of Gilgamesh, as the previous Head Councilman — the original Head Councilman — had decreed. The main Council Chambers were there as well, but on the...
2023-06-20 13:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
Consciousness arrived with no merciful transition. One moment there was the darkness of peaceful, dreamless slumber, and the next moment Lucas was awake with the sticky feeling of dry blood on his face and a ce...
2023-06-13 21:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostDid some restructuring of the story, nothing major, but updates should happen more often now that I'm not making 8k words per chapter on average.
2023-06-11 01:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seven
There was an abomination against good sense standing outside the window.
Quadruped with wings, it had the head and wings of a pigeon, but the body and grubby paws of a possum, all tied together in grey fu...
2023-06-11 01:32:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Six
“Well,” said Crane. “Shit.”
That summarized the situation pretty well, in Luke's opinion.
Devonte Crane was a man in his forties. Black-skinned, bald and clean shaven at all times. He was tall...
2023-06-11 01:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five
Three minutes and forty seconds later, Doctor Phan and Zero went their separate ways. The good doctor had to report his progress to his superiors, meaning Zero had the rest of the day to go about his business. 2023-06-11 01:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Four
Gibson Heights, to the unprepared, was a nightmare that bordered on the Escher-esque.
The DeRose apartment was the only actual living space in their building’s thirty-fourth floor. Everything else had fa...
2023-06-11 01:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Three
The world had been made untamed, left wild and scarred.
The road the caravan crossed was unstable and shattered, a line of concrete put together from what had remained after the tungsten rain had ended. T...
2023-06-11 01:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two
The light, filtered through the fluids inside the glass tubes that ran throughout the room, dyed the room in a deep red glow. They ran across the walls and just under the ceiling, barely leaving room for the lamp...
2023-06-11 01:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
24 Hours Earlier:
Twelve-year-old Lucas DeRose woke up to the ringing of his alarm clock.
With trained motions, he immediately slammed his hand down on the device before he fully woke...
2023-06-11 01:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while.
The crowds of onlookers, originally just a smattering of children watching from across the street — eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest — had evolved int...
2023-05-28 00:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post24 Hours Earlier:
My alarm clock woke me up at eight thirty in the morning, half an hour before my mother woke up.
As was my routine, I immediately turned off the alarm and waited with an ear open in case I heard the c...
2023-02-01 17:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe bodies were cold, and they had been for quite a while.
What had previously been a collection of school kids watching from across the street — eyes wide, expressions blank and knees drawn up to the chest — had evolved into most of the...
2023-02-01 17:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Billy, Farah and Yua all burst into Alice’s clinic, they found her sewing up a gash that cut diagonally across my chest, having just finished with Steph. Cass was already there, sitting in the corner, fuming and doing her best to not distra...
2022-11-05 05:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe windows were fogged up, the driver’s seat was inclined all the way back, a song was playing through the speaker, and the lights of the city could be seen through the w...
2022-10-05 01:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostThey were six when they met.
But the firs
2022-10-05 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t a long wait. I’d barely had to struggle for a minute that felt like an hour before Batman, flanked by Nightwing and Robin, showed up in front of me again.
I was leaning my full weight against the wall, using my Stick ‘Em powe...
2022-09-17 15:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostSam Reyes/Spider:
The so
2022-09-04 15:17:43 +0000 UTC View PostRevolution: 1.4
She’s just a Johnson, I told myself, swaying in place as I held onto a handrail. You meet her twice at most. You do the job, you get paid, you never talk again. There’s nothi...
2022-07-09 05:47:45 +0000 UTC View PostRevolution: 1.3
Dami’s apartment was more or less exactly what I expected.
There was a thick layer of dust, dirt and grime covering the floor that seemed to prescede my brother’s disappearance. Sim...
2022-07-09 05:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostRevolution: 1.2
“You look like hell.”
It took me a minute to process that I’d been spoken to. After hearing my alarm, I’d sat on my bed before my body moved without input from my mind and carri...
2022-07-09 05:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostRevolution: 1.1
The small company bus was not designed for metahumans, despite the high amount of elves, orks, dwarves and trolls employed by MCT.
For some godforsaken reason, the whole thing was desig...
2022-07-09 05:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostSamuel Reyes/Spider:
We had gathered in Butcher’s office, slightly cramped but managing.
Farah was nervously sipping at what had been, at the start of the meeting, a pretty full glass of scotch that Butchie had offer...
2022-06-08 19:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostWalking into Farah’s apartment was like stepping inside her brain.
Her door was metal, had a camera on the outside and opened with a buzzing noise a little after I rang the bell. It was far different than all the other doors I’d seen on ...
2022-05-15 20:19:39 +0000 UTC View Post