Today I added 2006 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing my current total to 27,028!
“I am Aysel, daughter of the Niraj tribe,” she hissed, heels digging into the sand. “I have not died yet, and I will not die here.”
The harilai-nak burst from the sand, mouth wide and ready to devour. Aysel swung wide with her shield, slamming it into the side of the beast’s head. She followed it up with a thrust with her spear, catching the tender spot in the shoulder. The creatu...
2021-11-18 03:03:48 +0000 UTC
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While I did not write on Sunday, today I added 2713 words. This brings my total word count to just over 25,000 (25,022, to be exact)!
The sun was only just beginning to rise over the horizon, the stars still dancing at the lavender edge of day. Aysel paid the pale morning light, and the deep cold that came just before the sun showed Its face, no mind as she loaded their provisions into the wagon. She considered leaving It behind now that the children would not be coming with ...
2021-11-17 03:16:34 +0000 UTC
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This weekend I added 2273 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing the total word count to 22,309!
“Aysel?”
She turned, seeing Malai staring up at her with big, innocent eyes. Her heart twinged with guilt.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
Aysel forced a smile, hoping it looked natural enough. “I’m alright. Just thinking.”
“What about?”
“Many things,” Aysel said vaguely, plucking a pouch of dried fruits from a stall and passing over a coin...
2021-11-15 03:12:42 +0000 UTC
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Over the past two days I added 3002 words to "Seek the Oasis", bringing my total word count to 20,036!
"We…we gave ourselves names," Bricklin said, scratching his head. "But…"
"They weren't our real names," Palm Tree said. "I'm sure of it."
"No," Leonidas agreed. "I'm sure they weren't."
"Well, we should come up with new ones," Kinri suggested, an earnest -- if uneasy -- optimism to her voice.
The eldest child looked to Aysel, a spark of recognitio...
2021-11-13 03:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 1024 to "Seek the Oasis", bringing the total word count to 17,034!
Aysel shot him a thankful look. As he left, Kinri came to sit beside Aysel, gathering Sherlock and Jasmine into her arms with Duney. The merfolk watched him over her shoulder until he ducked back into the cave.
She turned to Aysel, whispering, “What do you think of him?”
Aysel felt taken aback by the question. She’d only just met Leonidas; how would she have any thoughts about h...
2021-11-11 03:19:58 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 1749 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing my total word count to 16,010!
Aysel stood over the witch’s body, hands still wrapped tightly around the shaft of her spear. Heart pounding, limbs numb and heavy, it was all she could do to breathe. Dimly, she heard the clanging of heavy metal falling to the stony floor. She’d killed many beasts before, it was a necessity to survive in the desert, but never had she killed another person. Triumph and anguish warred in he...
2021-11-10 03:32:33 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 1699 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing the total word count to 14,261!
Setting her spear to the side, she wrapped both hands around the bars. She braced herself and pulled, muscles straining and joints popping as she exerted all her strength upon the metal bars. Nothing. No movement at all.
“Of course, they’re not gonna move just with you pullin’ em! Bloody elf!” one of the dwarves hissed. “They’re magic! You gotta move ‘em with magic!”
...
2021-11-09 02:17:32 +0000 UTC
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This weekend I added 2084 words, bringing my total to 12,562!
“You know, I’ve never met a Sa’a.”
Aysel glanced over her shoulder, though all she really saw was the top of Kinri’s head. She sat sidesaddle behind Aysel on Sonnak’s back, her arms wrapped tightly about Aysel’s torso. Her skin was cold against Aysel’s and had caused goosebumps to break out across her arms when they first touched. Aysel found herself somewhat fascinated with the contrast of Ki...
2021-11-08 02:22:29 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 1359 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing the total to 10,478!
Her attention was pulled from the sky above at the sound of approaching strangers. Spotting a small caravan coming the opposite way, Aysel urged Sonnak up onto the grassy lip on the side of the road. She did not want to appear confrontational by getting in the way of the caravan, after all.
The wagon was pulled by a horse, larger and heavier looking than the spry running horses that some tribes us...
2021-11-06 01:53:36 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 2397 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing the total to 9122!
A wolf. Human stories that made their way into the tribes described them as fearless hunters, but also evil deceivers. Aysel remembered one story of a wolf that disguised Itself as a young girl's grandmother in order to eat her. Though, the creature before her seemed unlikely to do such a thing. Not unless it had some kind of magical power.
"Are you going to eat me?" Aysel asked the wolf.
The ...
2021-11-05 02:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday I added 1715 words to Seek the Oasis, bringing the total to 6743!
Aysel spotted the top of the gate before she saw the rest of It -- great beams of wood and metal that bored into the mountain sides. Gripping Sonnak's reins even tighter as she approached, Aysel couldn't help but feel some kind of awe as more and more of the gate came into view. A massive stone wall spanned the gap between the mountains. A small archway, just wide enough for two people to pass through...
2021-11-04 12:44:06 +0000 UTC
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Today I added 2410 words to Seek The Oasis, making my current total word count 5028!
The air stilled, but no sound caught Aysel's ear. She frowned, standing in her stirrups to scout the nearby sands. Nothing. Frowning, she spurred Sonnak onwards.
"Just a little longer, friend," she assured him when he made a noise of protest. "Just a little longer."
The light faded over the horizon, dancing stars taking the sun's place in the sky. The moon stared down at the deser...
2021-11-03 00:38:26 +0000 UTC
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It's that time of year where I put everything on hold and power through writing an entire novel in one month. That's right: National Novel Writing Month is here and it's time to share some good shit with y'all. Today's word count is 2410. And my favorite bit is as follows:
She wandered the shore of the oasis, drifting farther and farther away from the encampment. Here, alone in the desert, she could cry. Here, alone in the desert, she could allow herself the...
2021-11-01 23:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Basil was right. It did not take nearly as long to return to Spade as it did to get to Ahmar. Along the way, they passed two other Spade boats heading south. Alfre’s heart sang when she saw them sail by. Maldrom and Ludovico had kept their promise.
The ship was met with a cheering crowd as they docked in the shipyard. Many in the crowd had brought freshly made food and warm blankets. Alfre couldn’t help but laugh at how flabbergasted the refugees looked when they were met with such ...
2021-10-16 15:55:26 +0000 UTC
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The trip didn’t take as long as Alfre had feared. And the dawn of the fifth day, Basil shouted down into the barracks about having spotted land. They’d be within docking distance in less than an hour.
“I’ll let Sandfur know,” Canus told them. “I’ll be on the shore when you arrive.”
“How will you get there?” one of the Fell of Duty players asked. “Can you swim?”
Canus grinned a wolfish grin. “I have my ways.” He slipped behind and piece of pipe and...
2021-10-03 15:11:03 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks later, Alfre found herself staring at the massive, manmade marvel of steel and copper and whatever other metals Maldrom and his worker bees had scrounged up and welded together. It looked like someone had frankenstiened the thing together from a dozen or more other ships, but it was floating. And really, that was all that mattered.
“It’s brilliant,” June whispered, clasping her hands like she was praying.
“It’s ugly,” Hunter grumbled. “You expect us to sail...
2021-09-19 13:25:11 +0000 UTC
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“You need me to do what?”
Maldrom didn’t even look up from his ledger. “Just escort my miners into the mountains and get me some more mana crystals. It’ll only take a few days.”
Alfre raised a skeptical brow at the dwarf. “And why can’t your guild escort itself?”
“Because everyone else is working on that darn boat of yours,” Maldrom snapped, still not looking up from whatever he was writing.
“Technically, you were already building the boat befor...
2021-09-05 13:43:01 +0000 UTC
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A request for CallieQ, who asked for some cuteness between Death and Ha-yun from my original work "Match.God". I'm terribly sorry it took so long for me to fulfill your request. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. Our next month's winner is Loor! Please let me know what you'd like for me to write!
The house was quiet, though that wasn’t unusual. Hannah leaned back in her chair, feeling her back pop with the motion. She’d been working since early that morning, only stopping w...
2021-09-01 00:43:54 +0000 UTC
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Alfre pushed the question of her so-called ‘boyfriends’ out of her mind. There were more important things to worry about, like how Maldrom and Ludovico finally managed to get an engine running. They called Alfre in a week after her last visit, the two of them grinning like madmen.
“We’ve done it!” Maldrom exclaimed. “We’ve got an engine that won’t explode on us. The blasted thing has been running all week without a care in the world.”
“Now we just need to place...
2021-08-21 15:16:45 +0000 UTC
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Alfre sat in the lounge’s most comfortable leather chair, staring unseeingly at the fire that crackled before her. She absentmindedly swirled the scotch in her glass. She hadn’t taken a sip in almost ten minutes, to focused on all the thoughts spinning about her head. She couldn’t quiet her mind, not with everything that was going on. The Sweet Summer Children guild was busy clearing out spaces for the refugees from Ahmar. The Knights of the Burning Oak and the Fell of Duty were busy tr...
2021-08-07 14:45:20 +0000 UTC
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Alfre, if you had asked her all those months ago, would not have said ‘Yeah, in a year I see myself leading an army of MMORPG players in a war against other MMORPG players and that’s not a metaphor for anything.’ Though, technically, she was not yet leading an army into war, but instead a nation into a refugee crisis.
But first the refugees had to get here. And none of that was going to happen until her engineers finished those steamboats, which were behind schedule. They’d orig...
2021-07-10 15:52:01 +0000 UTC
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New Chapters coming July 10th!
Art by Akira (https://artistsnclients.com/people/Akira)
2021-06-29 11:51:49 +0000 UTC
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A request for Steph, who asked for my Pokemon Sword/Shield OC Peggy going on a date with Milo. Sorry this is terribly late, I hope you enjoy it. Our winner for June/July is CallieQ! Reach out to me with your request at your earliest convenience :D
Milo wasn’t usually the type to rush things. Everything at its own pace was his philosophy. So when he sent Peggy a text telling her to meet him as soon as possible, she got a little worried. Not too worried, though, because if it...
2021-06-16 22:42:34 +0000 UTC
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Been slowly working on an anniversary fic for Melody From Another World's 5th anniversary. Consider it a sequel movie lol. Thank you for all the support on the original Melody. I hope this fic brings you similar joy.
2021-05-22 14:11:46 +0000 UTC
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Thank you for all your support. I'm happy to announce that Frozen Stars Over Wonderland is now available in pdf format for you to download and read offline!
2021-05-01 21:25:39 +0000 UTC
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A request for Loor! She wanted something pokemon related, particularly Sinnoh. I hope you enjoy it! Our Winner for May is Steph! Please contact me with your request at your earliest convenience <3
When Ren first became Johto’s champion, she hadn’t expected to immediately leave Indigo Plateau to be reintroduced to the gym leaders that she’d just spent a year defeating (though the look of irritation on Chuck’s face was worth it). And then after that was a whirlwind p...
2021-04-25 16:02:49 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! I just wanted to make a few quick announcements!
I've been in talks with the artist who did the wonderful work on the cover of Frozen Stars Over Wonderland, and they've begun work on the cover for the sequel! Once work on that is completed, I'll start posting chapters of that! I hope you look forward to it.
I am considering putting together a downloadable version of Frozen Stars, so folks can read the whole story all together and have it offline. If that so...
2021-03-20 15:39:28 +0000 UTC
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2021-03-20 15:35:48 +0000 UTC
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A request for CallieQ! I hope you enjoy it! Our winner for March-April is Loor! Please contact me with your request!
Shouting filled the air as the Scarecrow came up next to their prey, gang planks and grappling hooks thrown across to keep the hapless sailors from escaping. Dread Pirate Kakashi surveyed the scene with a stoic face. This was a royal ship. Doubtless it’d have a fine hoard of treasure to plunder. His crew was going to be living well for the next month.
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2021-03-13 20:37:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 16 is now up on ao3! A reminder that our ficlet winner for Feb-March is CallieQ! Please let me know what you'd like me to write for you :D
2021-02-13 16:29:05 +0000 UTC
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