Christine felt their approach not through anything like magic, but with her fledgeling vampire instincts. One moment, she felt the entire hospital as her unrestricted playing field, boxy corridors and chambers like catacombs and she the only spider, the only predator within. The next moment, wariness pressed at her from all directions, because she could all of the sudden intuit the entire building was contested. Other beings of genuine power were here, and unlike th...
2023-04-13 16:03:05 +0000 UTC
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“Will Chloe burn up in sunlight?” Emily asked as they climbed up the exterior stairwell of the Westerlin.
They’d just used Chloe’s debit card to book them a room under Emily’s name, which was weird and bizarre and not something Emily could quite wrap her mind around. One couldn’t simply switch off a visceral hatred for their enemy. Trying to suppress the ill will she felt towards Chloe seemed to instead wind up making her more and more suspicious of Chloe’s motive...
2023-04-12 14:25:07 +0000 UTC
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Christine wanted to let out a sigh of relief at the man’s departure, but there was no relief to be found. She felt sick with thirst now, those small expressions of power she had leveraged to cow the creeps into submission had completely hollowed out her inner reservoir. Instead of just a dry ache in the pit of her stomach and a painful parched feeling that extended up her throat, it was now as if her entire torso was emptied out of living vitality. The smallest movement made without care mi...
2023-04-11 17:27:12 +0000 UTC
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“By thhggh, by the Rules, the Masters have claim here,” Judas finally hissed out, eyes darting over towards the young man resting on hospital bed. “He’s one of ours. One of us.”
“I don’t think you know ‘the Rules’ as we do,” the young vampire sounded unamused.
His mind was racing. Even if she was bluffing about having a precognitive—it honestly seemed too absurd to believe, considering their legendary rarity—the appearance of vamp...
2023-04-08 17:07:16 +0000 UTC
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“Mom,” Elena asked. “Do you ever think malls will go out of style? Shopping malls.”
“Hmm,” Mrs. Seelbaugh pondered, tapping the remote control against her chin. “Out of style?”
The Muppet Christmas Carol was playing on TV, and each successive group of commercial interruptions got Elena thinking again. Worrying. Would these same commercials instead be playing someday on their family computer instead of s...
2023-04-06 11:24:41 +0000 UTC
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“Fresssh meat, fresh meat!” Chad hollered, slapping the hood of each parked car as they walked down the row. “How you wanna do this, faggot? Good cop, bad cop? Hell, how ‘bout we go in with the ‘yer a wizard, ‘arry.’ That’d be some top shelf shit, right there. Ain’t ‘xactly wrong, neither. Am I RIGHT?!”
Judas didn’t humor the kid with a response. The young Masters all seemed to be degenerate memelords, and enjoyed playing up a big persona for kicks. Chad...
2023-04-02 22:29:33 +0000 UTC
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Several hours later
“Fresssh meat, fresh meat!” Chad hollered, slapping the hood of each parked car as they walked down the row. “How you wanna do this, faggot? Good cop, bad cop? Hell, how ‘bout we go in with the ‘yer a wizard, ‘arry.’ That’d be some top shelf shit, right there. Ain’t ‘xactly wrong, neither. Am I RIGHT?!”
Judas didn’t humor the kid with a response. The young Masters all seemed t...
2023-03-31 15:18:27 +0000 UTC
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“Well dear, I have news but it isn’t good news, I’m afraid,” Mrs. William’s voice was tinny and small echoing out from the Macintire’s handset phone. “No luck on that record you were looking for, I’m afraid.”
“Oh, um,” Tabitha quirked her lip. “Evanescence? Thank you for trying. I did know it would be a long shot.”
In a rare moment of privacy, Tabitha had locked the door to her room and was sitting with the phone on the floor in a mess o...
2023-03-29 15:34:02 +0000 UTC
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Stephanie’s resolve was a flame guttering in rainstorm gales as the raw emotion of both Kelly and Emily crashed over her. She knew she couldn’t stay with them. Enduring the empathic trauma right now almost brought her to her knees in a complete breakdown—as much as she never wanted to part with them, it wasn’t a storm she could weather through for much longer.
The frigid rain scatter of Emily’s feelings was heavy with frustration and fear, and pelted across her mind on an angr...
2023-03-26 13:07:13 +0000 UTC
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“Stay safe,” Stephanie sobbed, all but crushing Kelly and Emily in her hug this time. “Be careful, stay safe. Stay safe. Please. I love you.”
Christine watched dispassionately as the three girls held each other and cried, each terribly broken up about the whole ordeal. The taller Kelly girl with the red hair had tears rolling down her face, Emily with her messy pixie-cut of now blue hair was ugly crying, and this Stephanie girl was pr...
2023-03-24 14:01:41 +0000 UTC
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As I mentioned back in Oct, the pledge tiers have been overhauled in a big way. I'd put off doing it month after month because I always felt like I was behind on writing, absolutely wanted to get them redone before second quarter.
I don't blame anyone for unpledging! I appreciate all of the support that's been given to me and completely understand how tripling the base price may make support untenable now. The major takeaways:
1) RE: Trailer Trash and AnimeCon Harem updates can no...
2023-03-23 14:07:21 +0000 UTC
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/// The complete chapter 49. My new longest cha
2023-03-21 16:22:09 +0000 UTC
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The four Moore boys had plodded home through the cold from their bus stop together, weary from a school day but lapsing back and forth into serious discussion over what they wanted for Christmas. It was a difficult thing to talk about, because they wanted so many things, but basically already knew everything they would be getting this year. Everything with the exception of one new revelation; that apparently Tabitha had a present for them this year.
&nbs...
2023-03-18 15:21:29 +0000 UTC
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“Okay. So; what do you think about Tabitha joining Art Club?” Alicia asked, leaning heavily across the scuffed glass counter.
“I’m all for it,” Casey shrugged. “Is she coming back to Springton High, though?”
Monday nights at Family Video were slow. Aside from a bit of midday activity that consisted mostly of people returning their weekend rentals, there just wasn’t much to do. Casey was closing tonight, and although the Family Video franchise was technically open u...
2023-03-02 18:19:24 +0000 UTC
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“You didn’t open your other presents,” Hannah remarked, peeking over the lip of the bucket in Tabitha’s room. “Are they for Christmas?”
“No,” Tabitha admitted, turning from where she was laying on the bed. “They were for my birthday.”
Tabitha had been too quiet this morning, and Hannah once again felt like she was on full alert trying to figure out what went wrong. They’d made breakfast together for everyone—bacon, eggs, and toast. Sometimes Hannah’s sunn...
2023-02-20 21:02:33 +0000 UTC
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Ominous quiet filled the cab of his truck as it rumbled down the Springton roads and brought them back down the hill into their trailer park. Alan knew his wife was cross at him over the whole Tabitha and Lisa hoo-haw, but if he didn’t stand up for his sister-in-law, then who would? It rankled how Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Macintire were so quick to dismiss Lisa’s innocence as impossible, how quick they were to judge and just see the worst in people.
He’d feared that coming into that...
2023-02-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Losing Brian, even temporarily, was bad enough—it was as if Kelly had been shown a glimmer of hope and then immediately had it snatched away. She’d only just really come to terms with having him in her life, of him becoming her rock, someone that she had deep feelings for, a guy she would openly admit to being in love with. Then, scant moments later he was seriously hurt, and of course she was responsible. Because everything that touches in on my trainwreck life turn...
2023-02-10 18:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Tabitha carried the bucket into the Macintire house without more than a cursory glance at the other gifts resting inside. Mrs. Macintire hadn’t seen fit to comment on the bucket, and Tabitha didn’t want to go through and examine the presents her parents had chosen until she was in a better state of mind.
I’m not going to appreciate them at all if I look through them right now, Tabitha decided, setting it down beside the stack of other p...
2023-02-08 16:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Stephanie wanted to fold over, hugging her knees, and have a messy, sobbing breakdown.
The guilt and frustration roiling off of Kelly was so heavy it might as well have been distorting the air between them, and the way Emily was trapped within the suffocating confines of anger on one side and fear on the other made Stephanie feel sick. There were her own feelings to contend with as well, and they simply weren’t anything she could handle. A headwind ...
2023-02-06 16:44:03 +0000 UTC
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“He’s back from CT scan, and it’s not as bad as it looked going in,” Officer Judy assured them. “He has an orbital fracture on the left side of his skull just beside his eye, but it didn’t look like there were any ruptures or serious damage to the actual eye. There was a little bit of bleeding there, and there was a whole lot of swelling. There doesn’t appear to be any bleeding on the brain, or any bad indications there—that was our major concern. Definite co...
2023-02-04 15:58:33 +0000 UTC
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The long drive back from Florence was quiet, wi
2023-01-31 11:52:00 +0000 UTC
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// Picks up right after that pt A bit, this time. Sorry I can't post anything in order! My writing process bounces all over the place worrying away at sections until they hit the way I want them to, and stuff never finishes in order.
“Your aunt Lisa wouldn’t steal anything,” Mr. Moore shook his head in disbelief.
“Dad—how or why would you...
2023-01-26 23:49:34 +0000 UTC
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The long drive back from Florence was quiet, with Tabitha conceding the Acura’s passenger seat to Elena so that she could sit in the backseat with Alicia and Hannah. The girls were all tired, and Hannah immediately leaned her head onto Tabitha’s arm and nodded off. Aside from a few softly spoken remarks, both of her friends seemed lost in their own thoughts, and Tabitha had plenty to think about herself.
It was a good birthday party, Tabi...
2023-01-23 12:48:26 +0000 UTC
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Expect to see it start up sometime this year! Will keep everyone posted.
2023-01-18 15:28:53 +0000 UTC
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/// Going to use lettering rather than numbering this time because these probably won't wind up as linear, sequential chapter segments. More likely to be iterative new versions of the same content that expand or extrapolate out from the same basic content, that's how a lot of complex conversations with 5+ participants wind up evolving as I work on them.
/// I run through it first with some staple key stuff that illustrates the course of the conversation, then I keep running through it a...
2023-01-05 19:26:01 +0000 UTC
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Got hit pretty bad by that winter storm, spent five days with insomnia / power outages / no running water / through some pretty extreme cold temperatures. Just got back above freezing today and arrived home from the grocery store (making one or two walks out there a day, no running water so can't use bathroom here unless just to pee) to discover whatever line unfroze and something between the water line in and the pipes beneath my bathroom sink burst and had flooded the back half of my traile...
2022-12-29 22:53:17 +0000 UTC
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Joshua’s rented skates clunked across the la
2022-12-09 22:57:58 +0000 UTC
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7 Months Ago
After Ashlee had herself a ‘clumsy accident’ in the first week of bouncing on their big new trampoline together with Erica and Brittany, their parents had instated the rule that only two girls were allowed up on the trampoline at once. For safety, of course. Ashlee’s protests had fallen on deaf ears, while both Brittany and Erica chided her for being childish and reminded their stupid little sister that it was her f...
2022-12-06 19:06:04 +0000 UTC
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“...Are you Chloe, or are you Christine?” the pink-haired girl asked.
“What the fuck is going on?” Christine demanded, holding up her hands and staring at them. “What’s happening to me?”
“How bad is Brian hurt?” Emily asked. “What happened?”
“He’s… bad,” Christine admitted. “He wasn’t conscious.”
“Fuck,” Kelly swore. “So—you don...
2022-11-28 15:37:07 +0000 UTC
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“You’re really on Tabs’ case about the whole time travel secret thing,” Alicia griped as she skated next to Elena. “But, like—it’s her story to tell, right? She can do what she wants.”
“Honestly?” Elena stared off into the distance. “I’m just getting real sick of it. It’s all you guys talk about, you won’t stop encouraging her, and just—I just don’t want to have to keep playing along with this forever,...
2022-11-24 19:35:08 +0000 UTC
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