“Just look at us,” Olivia lamented with a groan. “Tabitha, look at us cripples. All alone. In pain. Suffering, in complete misery!”
“Don’t whine, dearie,” Mrs. Moreno reminded from the table next to them, not even looking up from her novel. “No one likes a whiner.”
As predicted, shortly after making a symbolic lap around the rink with her boyfriend, Olivia attempted to actually skate at speed and imme...
2022-11-23 18:28:31 +0000 UTC View PostOur AnimeCon Harem Volume 3 cover illustration finished this month! That one's planned to start off with Rebecca and Emily rescuing Stephanie in the alleyway and span all the way through the events of Saturday night of the convention:
Since I think the last time I was sharing images it was still a step or two away from completion, here is th...
2022-11-22 23:58:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Uh, hey,” Emily said into her phone. “We’re all gonna be at the hospital right here in town, Brian got hurt. Call me back or meet us, we’ll be at the emergency care thing. Bye.”
“She didn’t pick up?” Kelly asked.
“She didn’t pick up,” Emily sighed. “Probably helping someone haul the big stuff from their LARP thing down to the parking lot. I don’t know.”
“I got a text back...
2022-11-21 21:13:30 +0000 UTC View PostJoshua’s rented skates clunked across the laminated wood of the roller rink in steady strides as he built up more speed for rounding the far curve. Because the skaters all whirled about in a giant clockwise oval, there were two long straightaways where he could do a really cool long glide. With one last heaving pump of his legs, he hunched down low, imagining himself more aerodynamic as he traversed dozens of feet in a matter of seconds. This was, in his opinion, one of th...
2022-11-17 20:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Christine stepped down from the passenger’s side door of the ambulance, gurney wheels were already down on the pavement and Brian was whisked away into the depths of the hospital. They’d situated her in the front of the vehicle rather than in the back beside Brian’s stretcher like she’d grown to expect from seeing situations in movies, and no small part of her was surprised that she was asked to accompany him at all. They didn’t know who she really was ...
2022-11-15 21:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post/// The full chapter 46.
“Wait a minute,”
2022-10-30 20:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostJust made a patron-only post informing everyone that I'll be redoing pledge tiers at the start of 2023, but wanted to let everyone else know too. Subject to change, but right now it looks like I'll go with something real simple and straightforward with just three tiers like this:
$3 Returner Tier: Two or more advance RE: Trailer Trash chapters.
$3 Harem Tier: All advance AnimeCon Harem / Ren...
2022-10-29 12:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostEffective January 1st of 2023, I'll be redoing all of the tiers here, removing most of them, raising some prices, and changing up our Discord server. This isn't something I do lightly, and I haven't messed with them much since January 1st of 2019, when I changed this Patreon page from a tip jar to a $1 paywall for my writing content.
I don't value my own writing very highly. Whenever one of my author peers tries...
2022-10-28 18:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post/// Guess who can't sleep at all and REALLY wants to get these sections finished before November! :D
“Wait a minute,” Elena narrowed her eyes in suspicion. “We can’t be having your party here, right?”
“We are, actually!” Tabitha laughed. “What, bad choice?”
The building was a large, rather nondescript single-story edifice with a big parking lot, with a Florence Fundome sign the only ind...
2022-10-28 07:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Happy birthday!” Hannah cried out.
“Good morning Hannah,” Tabitha replied.
Today was the big day, and Tabitha felt pretty confident. The tickle of anxiety at having to deal with a lot of people in a public situation where everyone was focused on her was there, but it was manageable. Presenting herself to everyone with any kind of personable face wasn’t something she was capable of back during the start of hi...
2022-10-27 17:17:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe teens went quiet as the lights dimmed and movie trailers began to play, some advertising films Tabitha remembered from a lifetime ago, and many that she’d never heard of at all. In the illumination of one particularly bright screen moment she realized Bobby’s hand was casually outstretched and offering—with a small smile, she put her hand in his. It was… nice. On the other side of her, Alicia had leaned in towards her to occupy the armrest between their two seats...
2022-10-23 01:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post/// Another 'before the actual birthday get together' section finished, I think I have the fluffy comfy bits of 44 done, so time to start structuring in the layers of hurt.
“I could just be overreacting,” Elena frowned, looking down at her crossed arms. “I don’t know anything for sure.”
“Better safe than sorry,” Mrs. Seelbaugh said, keeping her eyes on the road.
Elena’s mother was tense; she was sitting st...
2022-10-18 17:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post/// Not a ton to this one either, but it's self-contained, it's a finished section, and it's not stuff I wanted to just gloss over completely.
“Open mine first,” Elena insisted. “Then you can do Alicia’s, and go through everyone else’s.”
“Save mine for last, actually,” Alicia grinned. “Mine’s—leave mine for like, the finale. I actually don’t even know if you’ll love it or hate it.”
The gift fro...
2022-10-17 19:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post/// The full chapter 45.
Tabitha’s bir
2022-10-16 20:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post/// The full chapter 44. Previous chapter renamed to Talking to a boy.
“I been sayin’ it and sayin’ it and sayin’ it. I’m innocent an’ I ain’t done nothin’, like I been done told y’all!” The bleached blonde woman hissed out and then spat a glob of mucus onto the carpet, narrowly missing the table. “So I ain’t gone talk ta nobody ‘til I getta lawyer!”
“Yes Ma’am, that wo...
2022-10-09 16:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The long anticipated/dreaded first book release day, that will somehow transform me into a real author.
This first volume comprises the first 39 chapters of the webfiction, weighing in at a chonky 818 pages, for nearly three pounds of book! Our audiobook is narrated by Amy Landon, with a runtime of 25 and a half hours! That's almost an entire day, pra...
2022-09-13 13:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Ten times the rains came and went—and still Mowgli lived with the wolves!” Hannah cried out. “Mowgli the man cub loved the pack, and thought of them as his brothers. But then, one day—everything changed! The tiger Shere Khan had returned to the jungle!”
“Very good!” Tabitha praised, glancing down at the Disney storybook page to confirm Hannah had the correct words. “But, remember what I said about the dramatic delivery?”<...
2022-09-05 18:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post/// B for Bridging Banter section, these sections aren't finishing to 'polished-enough-for-reading' grade in order, but pt A should be up in the next few days. Spoilers for the 1998 Pleasantville movie ahead.
The first stage of celebrations began at noon, with everyone meeting up at the Sandboro theater complex. While most of their large Team Tabitha group sat in and watched Pleasantville with Tobey Macguire and Reese Witherspoon in its final...
2022-09-01 15:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After a pretty grueling month of personal issues, and then what felt like speed dating... but for my author friends recommending me to cover artists, and then a half dozen of them rejecting my commission application outright or quoting me ridiculous $2k per cover prices, I think we're going with Deryl. Will be hiring him to do a series of AnimeCon covers, and likely will have him do a new RE: Trailer Trash cover to replace the erickefata one as well.
2022-08-30 18:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostA churning morass of anger, fear, and guilt seemed to darken Stephanie’s mindscape as she dashed down the escalator two steps at a time. The tiny pink remaining flame of hope within her guttered and flickered as though a candle on the verge of blowing out, and with it even the surety of the ground beneath her feet felt as though it was giving way. A sickening sinking feeling that persisted now. She was fully aware that most of this weekend was built upon the found...
2022-08-21 23:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I resubmitted with an appeal in the note to admin field, and after five days they just kicked it back to me with this same exact message. So... that's that. We're still up on MC stories, Questionable Questing, Royal Road, and ScribbleHub, at least.
2022-08-05 19:00:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe violence and impossible horror of the situation turned away just as abruptly as it had arrived. Alternating red and blue light from a police car washed back and forth across the expanse of the convention center’s cinderblock wall. The siren was painfully loud, but there was a kind of grating purity to that which bit through the chaos of the previous moments, because it prompted all of her assailants to turn and flee, running on down the alleyway.
&...
2022-07-30 18:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post/// Maybe don't even start reading this one until the following few sections are posted up over the course of the last days of July. These may be frustrating to read on their own now, when the conclusion isn't available yet. You've been warned!
She just—Kelly just KNEW something, knew I needed to be somewhere, Brian tried to collect his thoughts as he ran. Somewhere specific, apparently, or like a specific time and place, if I have to hurry like this. 2022-07-26 17:37:02 +0000 UTC View Post
/// The full chapter 42.
“Let
2022-07-10 17:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Fucking finally,” Chloe muttered under her breath as she lowered her phone. “Only took them for fucking ever.”
The spike of raw glee she felt in confirming her revenge plan was proceeding made that knot of silvery shards crunch and creak as the glass twisted inwards on itself. Her bizarro headache made her want to hiss out in pain, but even that wouldn’t distract her right now. She refused to allow it to, because her momen...
2022-07-01 04:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Well—well, you shouldn’ta fuckin’ trashed his phone, then!” Emily huffed out after a moment of hesitation. “He’s not even with us right now. So—”
“Rebecca said he was with you,” Chloe cried. “She said he was. Can I, can I just—please? Can I talk to him? I, I need to tell him, I need him to know, I-I’m sorry, how sorry I am, for all of this, for everything. Please? Please?”
“He...
2022-06-28 16:37:50 +0000 UTC View Post/// The full chapter 41! The previous teaser of
2022-06-08 15:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostAmidst the bustle of the LARP and battlegaming event wrapping up and closing down, Rebecca tilted her head back to face the atrium’s elaborate dome of glass and fought the urge to let out a scream of frustration. While the crowds were gone now, her remaining people were moving about with a purpose to and fro around her in the amphitheater. Less of these young men and women were in full garb now, with many of them having taken off their sword belts for the day or even chang...
2022-06-01 23:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith as smooth a motion as he was able, Brian shifted back from Kelly just far enough to extricate his erection from the snug embrace of her thighs. His palm swept his shaft upright so that it would fit into his pants, and then he hastily managed to button the front. The pants just barely closed, the fly remaining open for now—it probably wouldn’t be too noticeable, and there was a sense of urgency thrumming through him. They needed to just do this.
...
2022-05-30 16:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the Thanksgiving evening passed
2022-05-09 22:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post