Jordan Alex Green

Living Magic and Dead Mages: Chapter 2

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 bought twenty copies!”

Mike grabbed the broom and started sweeping the wooden floor. “And did...

Web of the Weaver: Chapter 19

The 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 wireframe, letting me know where I was, and how fast I was moving, all the time.

I lik...

Finally fixed scrivener.

Which 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's the kind of thing that should be caught long before you roll your update out. 

I'm get...

Living Magic and Dead Mages: Chapter 1

Oh  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 people were happy to buy a book cheap online and read it on their phones or tablets. Most of the people ...

Web of the Weaver: Chapter 18

There 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 refrigerators and other items around.

Why?

I’d never heard of them doing anythin...

Web of the Weaver: Interludes of Plots and Love

“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.

“So, uh, can I have a reason for this?”

“Of course. Recent events at Winslow have bulked lar...

Web of the Weaver Chapter 17.

Slightly 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 out where your daughter is” with another comment talking about keeping track of the wife.

Fai...

School a coming.

Just 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. 

Web of The Weaver: Chapter 16

I 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 could type with my bugs…

And that meant I could work with my body. It turned out that jogging an...

Minor Delay

Tomorrow 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!

Web of the Weaver: Chapter 15

I 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 money was small, a few hundred a week, but more than enough for me, especially since PHO had a thread...

The Doomsday Archive, Part I

(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 library is important.

Now, I’m going to discount things like Earth gets hit by an Eros-sized aste...

Interlude: Stories of Light and Darkness

Wade 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 the right attitudes, and if they got caught…

Well, after a few years in juvie around the rig...

Web of the Weaver: Chapter 14

Content 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 originally just assumed my power was to control insects, but it seemed to be so much more.

I’d sat...

The Web of the Weaver: 13

I'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 test.

Dad was waiting for me at the breakfast table, and we ate in silence for a little while. 2023-05-17 07:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Quick note

I 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. 

Interlude: From Villains' eyes

“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 envelope with the USB holding the interview with the former Merchant.

Used a power to dete...