Volume 7, Issue 9 -- Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
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I've been gainfully employed for the past two weeks and it has been quite an adjustment. I had sort of anticipated this, but having a day job -- even one working from home -- has obliterated my routine in a way I didn't think it would.
Meditation is a foundational practice for little old neurodivergent me. My mind in its default state is much more closer to Monkey Mind than anything else, flitting from shiny obje...
2023-08-09 05:38:22 +0000 UTC
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"A Crash Course in Alien Diplomacy"
Deimo becomes intimately acquainted with the Prince's Steward, Taranis. Crusher helps with a lesson in interacting with sentients of varying sizes.
2023-07-25 19:48:45 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 8 -- Thursday, July 20th, 2023
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Episode 3 of Swiftie's Intergalactic will be posted next Tuesday, July 25th. Thank you so much for your patience and encouragement during this delay. I'm really excited to be writing again, and I sincerely hope the measures I've taken to be more consistent last a little longer this time. Hopefully the next episode will be a fun little diversion!
It's been quite a busy July. Thankfully, the COVID infection wasn't ...
2023-07-20 18:47:16 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 7 -- Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
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Yesterday, a positive COVID test ended my 1,260-day streak of dodging the pandemic. Husband came down with it for a second time last Thursday and though we quarantined once we knew, my immune system couldn't keep it back. I was feeling a scratch at the back of my throat on Sunday morning. That worsened into a nagging cough by the afternoon, and in the evening I had a killer headache to go with it. Monday was bad too, and...
2023-07-04 20:11:40 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 6 -- Thursday, June 29th, 2023
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So…that was interesting.
It's hard for me to talk about my experiences as a neurodivergent rabbit because it's tough to tease out which behaviors are part of my alternate brain chemistry and which are just personal failings I haven't learned to deal with. The reality is that you can't tease out a singular cause, or even a primary one, for this sort of thing. Still, it's easy to fall into the trap of laying all o...
2023-06-29 18:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 5 - Thursday, June 22nd, 2023
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You may have noticed there wasn't an episode this week. So, what happened?
I'll be honest: a combination of anxiety and poor choices. I've had writer's block for a few years now and I've only recently managed to push past it. I had been hoping that I'd cracked a way to be consistent before restarting the Patreon, but it turns out to be more difficult than I anticipated. The anxiety around my writing comes from a fe...
2023-06-22 19:12:50 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 4 -- Friday, June 16th, 2023
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This week has been a little rough for me, to be honest. I haven't had great sleep for a week or so and that's led to a small breakdown in discipline for a few days. So the newsletter is a day late and as you might suspect there might be a chance Episode 3 won't be ready by Tuesday of next week. I'll make every effort to catch up over the weekend but there are a few other things I need to handle as well, and I don't want ...
2023-06-16 16:42:12 +0000 UTC
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"First Contact"
Crusher takes Deimo to meet the mysterious patron who purchased his drink. Deimo finds himself, once again, in overwhelming company.
2023-06-14 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 3 -- Thursday, June 8th, 2023
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The "Swiftie's Bar" in my head is probably not the same story as it was. Maybe its strengths and flaws were different. What I'm left with is the impression it left on me, and how to use that for writing this version of it.
I remember the opening was incredibly short, truly reminiscent of Hemingway:
"The job had been completed, and <name> had some free time, so he thought he'd see what this place was ab...
2023-06-08 23:53:05 +0000 UTC
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"An Unhappy Celebration"
Deimo, an independent galactic courier, celebrates paying off his personal interstellar transport vehicle by taking a vacation at the legendary bar, Swiftie's Intergalactic. As he sulks over a drink about his frustratingly disappointing time so far, he finds himself in a surprising conversation.
2023-06-06 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 2 - Thursday, June 1st, 2023
When I was a young jackalope darting through the Internet of 20 years ago, I found a story on a macrophile forum that I fell in love with. It was about a cosmic bounty hunter who hooks up with a giant in a bar, so the plot is as basic as it gets. But there was something about the chemistry between the two characters that stuck with me all this time. The two characters were written like regular people on a first date; the giant was shy and ado...
2023-06-01 18:28:21 +0000 UTC
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Volume 7, Issue 1
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
I'm relaunching the Jackalope Serial Company in June 2023, and I hope that's good news for all of you. I know that I haven't been consistent with posts…well, ever, and I can't promise without a doubt that I'll be more consistent in this latest run. But I can promise that I will try my best to be as consistent as possible and communicate when I'll need to skip a week or two as soon as I know it. It's certainly not fair to all of you if I...
2023-05-25 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Volume 6, Issue 1 - Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
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I'll be honest; 2020 was not my best year. I struggled mightily with writing anything through the pandemic, and everything I've tried to get myself back in gear just didn't work. It really didn't help that some new horrible thing happened just about every week to throw me off my game. I really have no idea how others were able to get anything done creatively, but my hat's off to them.
One of my biggest issues wit...
2021-01-07 19:43:45 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 19 -- Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
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Our dear rabbit Puckles took a sudden turn last Thursday, and I spent that evening trying to find an emergency vet office that would even look at "exotic" animals. It was a rough time. Puckles is over 10 years old, which is a very good run for even a small rabbit, and he's been fighting a persistent infection this year that gives him sneezing fits. I've read that this is a pretty common infection among rabbits, bu...
2020-10-07 22:02:11 +0000 UTC
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Goaded by Laquan, Cody finally works up the courage to change in front of him. The shock of this new reality will need to be adjusted to, of course.
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"You do know I love you, don't you Bear?" Laquan turned around and grabbed Cody's hands, wal...
2020-10-07 21:14:12 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 18 -- Thursday, October 1st, 2020
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It feels like last week was the start of September. If you ask what I've been doing with my time, I'm not sure I could tell you. You live. You do things. I get up, work, cook dinner, play or run a Dungeons and Dragons game or watch a movie or play a game, and I go to sleep.
Somewhere in there, a little at a time, progress is made. During morning meditation, a small shift unlocks something inside you. Lif...
2020-10-01 18:58:28 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 17 - Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
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It's frustratingly easy to lose momentum when you're writing, especially this year. I had the big mood crash in the third week of August and couldn't recover, though I have been working on part 3 of "A Bearable Partner" in that time. Reading over what I have so far, I'm really unhappy with it. I understand that it's most important to get the writing in no matter what, but I don't think it does nearly what I want wit...
2020-09-09 01:03:36 +0000 UTC
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We're jumping ahead a little bit here to get to the good stuff, I promise. Laquan comes over to spend the night at Cody's cabin for the first time!
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The cabin was as clean as it was going to get. The new furniture in the main room, hastily-purchased and carefully constructed, went a long way towards hiding the worst of the stains and splinters around the room, though. The walls were covered with one of those singing fish, some art that looked a bit like the lake outside if yo...
2020-08-13 23:33:34 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 16 - Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
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In case you didn't know, last Thursday was my 40th birthday! I spent much of the day just enjoying the feeling of being off work, but I also got in some writing and reading too. Best of all, part 1 of "A Bearable Partner" went up on the Patreon!
I think it's time to take a step back and realize that longer serials are just not going to work for me right now. As much as I'd like to outline, write, and post a 13-e...
2020-08-12 02:11:37 +0000 UTC
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So to get back into the swing of things I think I'm going to stick to shorter serials for the rest of the year. This is a straight-up gay paranormal romance; hope you guys like it. :)
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Laquan set up the date on Growlr; they had both swiped right, and agreed to meet at Bouquet of Books after a few texts. It was on the way home from Laquan's job, but not a frequent stop. If things went south, he could just avoid it for a few weeks and supplement his crippling journal add...
2020-08-07 00:33:01 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 15 - Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
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If it felt weird before devoting a significant chunk of time towards serialized porn, this week had made it feel almost like it's out of the question. George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25th and protests have been spreading nationwide ever since. There's video that shows Floyd pleading for his life as an officer plants a knee on his neck for almost nine minutes, and while there were three other officers...
2020-06-03 02:14:42 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 14 - Monday, May 11th, 2020
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It turns out I did not have time to write two episodes of Crushing The Competition last week -- I barely had time to work on a Friday night Pathfinder game I'm running online with a few friends. Since our regular games are on a bit of a hiatus in this time of quarantine, I dusted off this one as an excuse to learn Fantasy Grounds, one of the big online table-top RPG offerings out there.
I'm not being paid to p...
2020-05-12 01:55:40 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 13 - Monday, May 4th, 2020
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I sincerely hope you're all riding out this pandemic reasonably well. It's stressful enough being under a shelter-in-place order; dealing with a dysfunctional family situation, or an abusive job environment, or serious physical or mental ailments would be enough to make a difficult situation nightmarish. I hope if you have the space you're looking after each other as well as you can. It's times like these that communities ...
2020-05-05 01:04:47 +0000 UTC
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Ralph gets a new app, and a once-in-a-lifetime offer. Of course, he thinks about turning it down.
2020-04-28 02:34:46 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 12 - Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Third time's the charm: episode 8 of "Crushing The Competition" will be posted here this Friday, April 24th. Your extraordinary patience is wholeheartedly appreciated! I'm already working on episode 9; the block that prevented me from moving forward has shifted, and I feel like I might be able to tackle this thing on a steadier basis. I won't count my chickens before they hatch, but I hope I'll be able to provide more ...
2020-04-22 00:34:41 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 11 - Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
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It turns out, unsurprisingly, that I may have misjudged my emotional resilience against this kind of change. As an introvert I thought it would be relatively easy to adopt a shelter-in-place policy for a month or two. I could finally catch up on my reading! I could break down those outlines I had been planning since the beginning of the year! I could finally declutter my burrow and give this whole minimalism thing a t...
2020-04-02 00:04:48 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 10 - Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
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We're living in strange times. Here at the Burrow, we're in a 'shelter-in-place' order until April 7th or so, and my day job has mandated a work-from-home policy until April 30th. That's a lot of time to sit in my snug little den and realize how much dust there is on pretty much every surface. My wonderful husband is stuck at home, too, and while we're trying to get a handle on our anxiety the world seems determined ...
2020-03-19 01:38:00 +0000 UTC
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Ralph processes the shock of his recent meeting with his CEO. Just when he's ready to move to the next phase of his life, another shock is waiting for him.
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Volume 5, Issue 9 - Monday, March 9th, 2020
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I apologize for missing chapter 7 last Friday; the day job ran into some unexpected turbulence last week due to coronavirus protocol. I'm working from home for the next two weeks -- as are a lot of colleagues in the tech sector -- and in a global organization that means a ton of last-minute meeting shifts and all kinds of checks and double-checks to make sure we're good for it. We're through the fire drill, at least, and ...
2020-03-10 02:03:01 +0000 UTC
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Volume 5, Issue 8 - Monday, March 2nd, 2020
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Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and I live in one of the many states that will be enduring a primary. Please send your best and most calming vibes my way if you have a moment.
Politics has been contentious as always, even for those of us on the progressive left. We all have opinions about who would best be suited for the general election, and while I respect many of my peers for their choice it's easy to feel like ...
2020-03-03 02:24:52 +0000 UTC
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