An hour. She sat here and argued for an hour. Mike felt exhausted. That had been in the morning, and now it was late afternoon, and he stillfelt exhausted. He propped the door open, letting the warm afternoon air enter the stuff bookstore, while he got ready to close up.
“But these are comics and they’re collectibles,” he said in a high-pitched voice. “My son bou...
2023-06-29 00:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe baseball hit the target. It wasn’t hard, since I had a bug on the ball and on the target, and I had bugs on my own body. So now I’d be working on little throwing weapons, from flash bombs to actual throwing daggers—although I didn’t expect to use those, unless it was literally life and death.
Though I did have some other ideas for disabling weapons.
It was like a w...
2023-06-27 19:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhich is to say, ripped out the new update, put in the old version, had to recover all my files...
Long story short, we're back on track and the next chapter should get out tomorrow.
Also, while I like Scrivener, I am very, very annoyed at LIterature and Latte. Breaking "past while keeping format" is not some arcane malfunction that hardly anyone will notice, and it...
2023-06-26 06:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostOh hey! Look, it's an original! Don't worry, Weaver's Web is still continuing, but I'm also gonna be releasing this story here.
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One nice thing about a book store—it doesn’t open early. Mike shrugged as he flipped the sign from CLOSED to OPEN.
Not that many people would show up. Far Horizons was a used bookstore, and more and more peop...
2023-06-24 03:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere will probably be another chapter soon--this one is short, mainly because I can't find a good way to link it to the next one.
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The Undersiders were rampaging through the lot, causing an ever-growing amount of chaos. Some men had pulled out guns, but more were just running. The big robot…thing, looking like some kind of steampunk nightmare was tossing ref...
2023-06-20 23:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Boss, I don’t understand. You want us to take on the Empire, after we lost Grue to Lung?”
“Tattletale, I have assurances that there will be no capes at this site. Only normal soldiers.”
Confident. Believes he has things under—Lisa got her power back under control. Of course Coil was confident, he wasn’t the one who was about to piss off the Empire.
“S...
2023-06-16 06:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostSlightly late--getting redy for school was a bit more difficult than we'd expected.
Getting ready took a while. I stayed up late that night working on my cameras, and something else—a tracker. It turned out that burner phones couldn’t be tracked—unless you paid for it, but you didn’t have to give your address.
As a utility it had been advertised as “find o...
2023-06-12 08:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostJust to let everyone know the Gdaughters summer school is starting on monday.
Oh Lord, yes!
the Gdaughter loves school and has been getting up at 5AM to ask use old folks to get ready, for every day this week. That's why there have been a few delays, and the next chapter will drop tomorrow.
2023-06-10 05:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostI ached as I got on the bus. All of me. I had all the aches.
I’d studied, working on books on unarmed fighting, how to do it, reading the instructions… and then went in the backyard and started practicing. I’d done it before, working with my quarterstaff and escrima sticks, but this time, I didn’t have the excuse that I had to get to other things. I could read with my bugs. I coul...
2023-06-05 07:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow is my god daughters graduation from sixth grade and I must be up, so the next chapter may be tomorrow night or Friday morning.
But regardless, for the next two days plans are in fluctuation. Hopefully, I'll have one by tomorrow night, but Friday might be the day.
Bye!
2023-06-01 06:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostI had bought two more monitors from Lords Market. Both of them damaged, but not irrecoverably.
One had a damaged HDMI port, and the other had some corroded wires. Nothing I couldn’t fix.
Now, at least.
I’d been working with my ability to read more than one thing, to hear more than one thing. My patrols were mixed with exterminating bugs in various businesses. The flow of m...
2023-05-29 04:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post(this is the script for a youtube presentation, so it's a bit rough, but it's hints of things to come in my non-fiction work).
Well, here you are. You saw the “doomsday” library heading and got interested. I thank you. But before we talk about the nitty-gritty of our doomsday box and doomsday archive, we need to talk a little bit about doomsday, and why a doomsday libra...
2023-05-26 21:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostWade Green snarled at the paperwork in front of him. He’d let those three idiots go out, because they’d make good disposable punks. The Empire didn’t take anyone who came in the door, and they’d last five seconds in front of Hookwolf, were too dumb for Krieg or Victor, and talked too much to be trusted with anything serious.
If they’d got the Darkie, good, it’d prove they had ...
2023-05-25 03:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostContent warning for racism.
Sitting in class, I was listening to Mr. Gladly’s lecture. We had fewer group projects, more individual tests. I was taking advantage of it to do something else—listen to four conversations at once. I’d decided to try my stunt with reading books with my direct senses…
And I could parse out several conversations if I tried. It was odd. I’d origin...
2023-05-21 07:18:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm holding to my promise, because as far as i'm concerned it's not tomorrow until the sun comes up.
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When I got up the next morning, my mind was literally buzzing with potential. I’d managed to quickly rig up a way to turn the pages of my book, and while I couldn’t read any faster, I found that I could keep track of as many books as had been able to te...
2023-05-17 07:30:20 +0000 UTC View PostI was planning on a new chapter yesterday, but the roomie I had to take to the ER last week is having some more problems, so there have been some delays. Hopefully it will be out tonight, or by tomorrow at the latest.
2023-05-16 02:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Tattletale,” the unwelcome voice was clear over the phone.
“Yeah, boss?” Distracted. Considers this a minor issue.
“You read the file on Squealer. What do you think about Orb Weaver.”
Lisa shook her head. “I don’t have a lot of information on it, but my guess? A Thinker, maybe focused on parahumans.” She let her power free, thinking about the ...
2023-05-11 22:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm at the hospital with a friend. Nohting major, but he needed a ride. The next interlude for Orb Weaver will thus be tomorrow morning. Or after noon. But definitely tomorrow.
Getting ready to talk to Mush during his drills was going to be difficult. I’d set up several listening devices, my cheap walkie-talkies, in the place, but in all honesty, I’d have to make certain Much didn’t move too far away, or I’d lose my ability to hear him.
I wasn’t on the property, of course. There was a little nook that wasn’t visible to any casual visitors. That was w...
2023-05-09 01:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Not quite there yet, I'm going to have to go into photoshop and add some more work to it, the buildings are supposed to be covered with vines and such. But for a first attempt, looking down a spooky street--not entirely bad.
The problem of working with Mush was that I couldn’t assume he was stupid. If he noticed I was only meeting him at night, never talking to him save by a creepy voice, he might start drawing conclusions I didn’t like. He might decide to strike out on his own again.
And given his previous decisions, it probably wouldn’t go well. But the books I’ve read stressed the importance of mis...
2023-05-05 01:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostRough preview of the first pages of my new original story--full first chapter should be up this week.
Once, the 91 freeway seemed like a never-ending parking lot,Maria thought as she zipped down the freeway, her jeep bouncing whenever she hit a pothole or chunk of fragments. Now it is. In front of her, dead cars littered the freeway, most of them stalled out ...
2023-05-03 05:25:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a while since I got something original, and this is going to be the start of a new story, Aether Wars, set on an earth invaded by strange creatures. Now, Just to let people know how this is going to go. It will, at the very minimum, have one chapter a week, with the patron getting it 3 days before general release on Royal Road and Spacebattles. There may be more, because I'm driving f...
2023-05-02 23:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostNote this interlude is taking place while Orb Wever is speaking with Squealer.
Mush sat down on the couch, bags of garbage around him. It was good to be armed. He lit up and turned the TV on, the flickering screen showing the most recent episode of “What Happened To Tommy!” a sitcom about a stranger cape who was always getting marked absent even when he was in school.
Mush...
2023-05-01 09:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostHow did pressure cookers and steam engines relate to each other? Find out here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleCoEcGWtc&t=170s
2023-04-29 01:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs the rest of the week passed, I spent time at Winslow, watching. Some of the most arrogant students weren’t so arrogant anymore.
More rumors were swirling around our new administrator. Oni Lee had shown up and he’d kicked him down the stairs. He’d killed Night and Fog.
He hadn’t done any of those things. He hadn’t even claimedto do those things, but the ru...
2023-04-28 02:17:00 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t certain if I was more annoyed that I was taking time out of my schedule to come to a tutoring meeting, or if the only reason someone was doing their job was because I’d been jammed into a locker.
Or the fact that Arcadia was so damned cleancompared to my school. The students were leaving labs as I arrived with Greg Veder and some other Winslow kids, including oddly e...
2023-04-23 01:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post“I haven’t heard of any parahuman with those powers.” Kaiser glanced at Brad. “Or let me rephrase, any parahuman who can make spooky noises.”
Brad didn’t rise to the bait. “Anyone talking like that, while we’re all there, has a reason to not be afraid. I figured you wouldn’t want to risk pissing off the new Eidolon.”
Not that he was.Brad had replayed the...
2023-04-20 07:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostResearching the Merchants was difficult. There were a thousand rumors. Skidmark and Squealer worked for the E88, they worked for Lung, they were actually the secret rulers of the bay.
That one, I could ignore.
There were arrest reports, and huh…
Skidmark and Squealer’s real names were out. That was…
I leaned back. Sure there were laws against revealing the identity...
2023-04-17 08:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I arrived at Winslow on Monday, I had no idea what was waiting for me. Just that there was a battered-looking VW Bug in the principal’s space. Inside, we were called into a schoolwide assembly, and one of the…
He might have been handsome at one point, but his face was marred by deep scars, pulling his mouth into an unnerving smile, his brown hair already showing streaks of gray.<...
2023-04-15 01:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post