Tibs sipped his ale, enjoying the stares and Cynta’s glare. “I thought,” she said, “that the point was to not be noticed by the Master’s
Tibs sipped his ale, enjoying the stares and Cynta’s glare.
“I thought,” she said, “that the point was to not be noticed by the Master’s people.”
He smiled. “If we’re careful, we won’t.”
“I’m…” Char...
2025-04-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTrainer Brelendrirano Karotirekfrem came at him with quick strikes, and this time, Jeremy blocked enough of them to get an opening as she
Trainer Brelendrirano Karotirekfrem came at him with quick strikes, and this time, Jeremy blocked enough of them to get an opening as she stepped back, and he tried to take advantage of that gap when she regained her breath. He realized she’d planned ...
2025-04-24 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Home, familiar, alien. Answers?
Tristan returns to the one place he never expected to go to: Samalia—home, dragged there against his will by Alex, who believes its people hold Tristan’s cure.
What Alex discovers is that a corporation is taking over the planet, bit by bit, and simply returning a Samalian artifact isn't enough to complete the ritual.
Can Alex stand st...
Brother, captor, torturer. Executioner?
Tristan is back on the Sayatoga, but this time his brother is in charge, and intent on making Tristan suffer.
Alex wakes to the realization that he has lost his love again, but this time he knows that there is nothing he will not do to get Tristan back.
While Tristan fights to keep his sanity, Alex uses everyone he can, but can he...
Medication, solution, salvation, annihilation.
After years of working together, Tristan and Alex now know what to expect from one another. Tristan has molded Alex into a weapon, and Alex accepts his place is at Tristan’s side.
It starts with a rescue mission, getting an old man out of a medium security prison, but gets complicated when it’s revealed the old man knows a sec...
Child, victim, pawn, trap.
Alex has found Tristan, but things don’t go as either want.
Refusing to leave Tristan's side, Alex is forced to work with him on a job: kidnapping a child. Alex is torn between proving his worth and protecting the child from Tristan, while Tristan his torn between his own feelings and keeping up his control.
When the job goes wrong, the thre...
Coercionist, lover, prisoner. More?
Alexander Bartholomew Crimson only ever wanted a few things out of life: a good job, friends, and a man to love—no, an alien man to love. He got the first even before he was done with school, the second not long after he started his new job on a new planet.
The third he'd given up, on until he'd met Jack: a tall, handsome, funny, loving, f...
Researcher, mercenary, thief, killer.
He wakes up to find out time has been taken from him. He doesn’t know who did it, but he suspects where it began. Now he has his sights set on taking his revenge.
Taking on the prison that holds him, the people who set him up, and even the bounty hunter who once caught him doesn’t worry him. No, it’s the pawn he decides to use that c...
“Today will be a good day!” Tibs yelled from the low roof once he undid the darkness etching. It couldn’t hide him in the daylight, but away from where people looked, it made it easy to ignore him in the corner of their eye.
The people gathered in the square turned to look, and he posed in Fleet Finger’s green and black. With his hood up, they wouldn’t be able to see the half ma...
2025-04-23 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran crossed his legs, leaning back in the seat while the pack worked around him. The calibration for the recording equipment as well
Gralgiran crossed his legs, leaning back in the seat while the pack worked around him. The calibration for the recording equipment as well as the comm had been done before he’d arrived in the room Zorfiel had prepared for the interview. She and her p...
2025-04-22 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a dozen turns, Tibs decided they were far enough. While he hardly felt the earth he’d encased himself in, anyone else doing that could only stand it for a limited time.
He stopped. “I need to get out of this.”
Charlie raised an eyebrow at the earth that fell out of the glove Tibs pulled off. The same happened with the other one. The fighter chuckled when more fell as he ...
2025-04-21 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt—they? Don’t answer. I’m not sure how to think about them. Base is a him, because he told me so when I was old enough to understand the difference, but are all military bases like that? Or is he unique?
I’m also not sure how to proceed. I hadn’t thought beyond confirming my suspicions. Especially if they didn’t cooperate.
Still, they didn’t outright kill us, which th...
2025-04-20 13:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe view was magnificent from the top of this hill, El thought, as he looked down at the unending green of the grass interrupted only by the copses of trees dotting it. Birds flew high overhead, and he could sense animals among the trees, many of them. He couldn’t believe that after more than a decade of wandering, such a peaceful sight had the power to take his breath away.
Those first...
2025-04-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy let the hot water fall on him, relaxing his sore muscles. “How are you doing?” his instructor asked, and her voice brought with it
Jeremy let the hot water fall on him, relaxing his sore muscles.
“How are you doing?” his instructor asked, and her voice brought with it the other sounds in the gym’s shower room. The running showers. The conversations.
The presen...
2025-04-19 13:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s something rotten in the Jungle
Marlot has Trembor back in his life, but why is he growing distant? The lion’s legal problems force him to make hard choices when others involve make demands of him.
The body Marlot investigates points to something rotten happening in their city when he finds out it was paid for years before, while dying only hours ago. And...
2025-04-18 14:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a hunter in the jungle
Marlot is determined to get back with Trembor. Trembor wants nothing other than to put the wolf behind him and move on with his life. A third party might have an unhealthy interest in the two investigators’ love life.
Marlot’s obsession with showing the lion his actions were justified is compounded by the distraction a glitch in ...
2025-04-18 14:55:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Out of the Jungle
Forced to return home to investigate a death, Marlot finds himself confronted with all the reasons he left. With council more interested in getting him to close the case quickly than getting the real killer to pay, his family expecting him to stay and having to deal with the male while killed his first love, and is now the town’s Enforcer, is it any wonder all his inse...
2025-04-18 14:49:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The Law of the Jungle rules.
When the only animals around are people, they must hunt each other for food.
When bodies are left unclaimed and unpaid for, it's a Registered Investigator's job to find out who did the killing so they can be made to pay the tax.
Marlot is such an investigator, and when he is on the case, looking for the killer of one of the larger ...
2025-04-18 14:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Thibaud of Arteron,” the older man said, walking around Tibs. “You have certainly made arranging this meeting…interesting.”
“That was never my intention.”
Tibs’s intention had been to ensure it never happened. Losing the tails had been simple enough, he’d expected to manage it until he was done and had moved onto another city. Unfortunately, he’d come across Ald...
2025-04-18 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain,” the female said, over the comm as he continued to look over the tallies for what they had taken on while at Thuruksamian’s Reach
“Captain,” the female said, over the comm as he continued to look over the tallies for what they had taken on while at Thuruksamian’s Reach, “there’s a civilian here asking to speak with you.”
“Refer them to the civilian disp...
2025-04-17 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Derrick went to the wilds to find himself. But his enemies keep him on the move. He finds a place that shouldn’t exist, and as he grows comfortable there, someone from his past return.
Derick’s maker is in trouble again, and his help is needed. When Claws makes it clear he will go help the army by himself, Derrick agrees to go and is reunited with old friends and enemies.
Deri...
Derick has left behind Amanda, Jason, and the organization they represent. He's even left Claws in the Dark behind, in an attempt at figuring out what he is.
He finds a place to settle in and try to be human, to be normal. He tries to leave hunting demons behind too, but he finds he can’t. He can’t leave humans to die, even if sometimes he wants to kill them himself.
Still, he...
Derick hunts demons. He has been doing it for as long as he remembers. He does it because protect the people in his city is his duty.
It’s always been a straightforward job, until a demon saves his life.
What does it mean for Derick that a demon wants him to live? What does it mean for the world he knows? The people he is supposed to protect? When the most basic fact his life is...
Tibs had come across her in another office, while looking into the types of papers the university considered a referral.
There had been little of her behavior to notice. She’d fit in perfectly among the other merchants, waiting to reach a clerk, and then engaging them in pleasant banter, slipping in suggestions among the smiles.
It was that he’d picked up on.
Tibs couldn...
2025-04-16 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sent to run a dungeon, instead of losing a hand for stealing, Tibs needs to make use of everything the street taught him to survive and advance Tibs survived by picking pockets; until he’s caught. Instead of losing a hand, he’s sent away and told he must now survive a dungeon. How is a kid who knew nothing more than his street supposed to survive a dungeon that changes each time he goes in ...
2025-04-15 18:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostHow was the trip? Productive. Ran into an old friend when I landed, but work kept us from catching up. Hopefully, the next time we’re back
How was the trip?
Productive. Ran into an old friend when I landed, but work kept us from catching up. Hopefully, the next time we’re back here.
Why not just go back down? The ship isn’t leaving for another day.<...
2025-04-15 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Sent to run a dungeon, instead of losing a hand for stealing, Tibs needs to make use of everything the street taught him to survive and advance
Tibs survived by picking pockets; until he’s caught.
Instead of losing a hand, he’s sent away and told he must now survive a dungeon.
How is a kid who knew nothing more than his street supp...
2025-04-15 10:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostFinding out what he needed to enter the university proved simple enough. He acquired the finest clothing that had the added quality of not
Finding out what he needed to enter the university proved simple enough. He acquired the finest clothing that had the added quality of not making him memorable, and stepped to the doors. When the guard barred his way, he asked why.
He had to repe...
2025-04-14 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back, welcome back. Yes, yes, take a seat all of you. My, we’re drawing in quite the crowd today. I didn’t expect as many of your parents to listen to my stories. This is a little intimidating. No, no need to worry, I’m going to continue with it, but let’s give them time to bring more seats, we don’t want them to miss anything, do we?
So, last time, I finished with El an...
2025-04-13 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAutomaton Patrol, Level 10
Because humans proved unexpectedly stubborn and refused to die off, the computer had to spend resources into protecting the cities it controlled.
Perception check failed.
The six of them make us work for it, but we take them down. As we rest, I look over the description, trying to figure out what bug...
2025-04-13 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post