So just a heads up. Last week I was banging stuff out with new chapters for two of my stories From Tuesday-Saturday.
This coming week isn't going to be like that. I'm hoping to have a good one shot and maybe an update on one of my ongoing stories. (Emphasis on Maybe.) I can still have a retrospective ready for review.
I've got a Cushypen contribution due midweek, and owe some TLC to some non-patreon commissions.
Oh, and my dog just died an hour or ...
Chapter 20: Out to Lunch
What is this feeling
So sudden and new?
I felt the moment
I laid eyes on you
My pulse is rushing
My head is reeling
My face is flushing
What is this feeling?
Fervid as a flame
Does it have a name?
By lunch time, Tommy was getting ready to yank his eyelids out. The fudge was g...
2020-04-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 19: Late to the party...
Charlie was standing on the toy box so he could get a better look out the daycare’s one-way window. He loved people watching first thing in the morning: The suck ups and the social feebs running to class as soon as the first period bell rang; the panicked last-minute good-bye kisses from young couples that didn’t have the same class together; the loud and lazy stroll and chatter that the future deadbeats who ...
2020-04-24 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: School Daze
I’m not that smart
My siblings have been telling me that for years
That I’m not smart
We’re schooled at home
They see who’s bright
It breaks my heart
I’m not that smart
The rest of the morning was no less confusing for Tommy. On the bus ride to school, almost everyone was at least passingly friendly to him.
“Hi Tommy....
2020-04-23 15:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a nifty little commission I recieved from HofBondage. This is their depiction of Margaret from Ink, right before she goes on a certain hairbrained scheme that will cement her status as a baby. The shen knows.
http://patreon.com/HoFBondage.
deviantart.com/hofbondage
Midway through the break, Cassie’s Dad and I went grocery shopping. Misty Brook and the surrounding Little trailer parks all convened in the J-Swift Shopping Center; the closest thing local Littles had to a downtown. J-Swift: Where the ceilings were all only ten feet high. It was glorious.
Every store in the center was run by and catered to Littles. All food sold was unpoisoned and catered to Li...
2020-04-22 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Cassie had barely knocked on the door to her family’s double wide. Her knuckles rapped on air the third time around. The door flung open. “Cassie!”
“Dad!”
Herbert Braun flung the door open and gave Cassie a bear hug. Making exaggerated grunting and growling noises as he pretended to crush her. Cassie did her part by pretending to suffocate. “Oh god! Dad! You’re killing me! Can...
2020-04-21 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHeh...update 4/20. Snerk!
Okay folks, a couple of announcements for new stuff going on that might directly affect you.
1. In case you didn't get the memo from Peculiar changeling, the results are in from our April Fools Day experiment.
He wrote "The Joke's On You."
I wrote "The Joke's On Us."
For those who got it right. What gave me away?
For those who got it...less than right, what fooled you?
I'm cur...
Just little retrospective to tide you over until this week's updates of my new and exciting stories.
I need a catchphrase,
Personalias
2020-04-21 00:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Unexpected Side Effects
Good mornin', good mornin'!
We've danced the whole night through,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Good mornin', good mornin'!
It's great to stay up late,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Tommy woke up horny. Any dreams he’d been having were paused and forgotten before he’d managed to open his eyes; as were memories of the night be...
2020-04-17 18:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Cassie and I were in the back of a strange car, strapped into booster seats that barely fit us. We were close to an hour outside of town. None of my Amazon co-workers, not Beouf, not Janet, not Zoge, knew where we were. None of our neighbors knew where we were, either (not that they’d care). We couldn’t even reach each other, couldn’t hold hands. ...
2020-04-15 03:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: The Old Waiting Game
I sat there in Oakshire Elementary’s clinic near the front desk, completely exhausted. Tracy, Mrs. Beouf and I had spent the entire previous night cleaning my room to beyond perfection. My room was already in very good condition. ‘Very good’ wasn’t going to cut it. Nothing short of perfection would be acceptable.
As soon as Janet reported the essay that little pissant wrote about me, there would be blood i...
2020-04-14 04:50:25 +0000 UTC View PostRunaway- Chapter 8
Time fucks with you in the Land Beyond the Real. I’ve said that already, I know. But it’s more than just the fact that you can spend what feels like days in a place and it only be an hour to the Fay and vice versa. It’s your perception too.
With gods and monsters looming over you, threatening to cuddle, abuse, arouse or kill you at any given moment it changes the way you think. It changes the way you communicate wit...
2020-04-08 20:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostAn oldie but a goody, here's Life Swap. Featuring one of my favorite side characters, Professor Bumble, and as always, a little bit of reflection from yours truly at the end.
2020-04-06 15:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 16: Curious
BONG! BONG! BONG!
Katlynn woke up in a fog. Literally. Her entire room was filled with a thick, unpierceable, soupy mist. For a moment she was positive she was about to die. House fire. Inferno. The screams of people burning alive and the crackling protests of cheap wood set ablaze.
This is how I die.
No heat, though. No acrid stench. No sizzling, fles...
2020-04-05 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Coupling
And you know, you know, you know
It's 'cause you're beautiful
You say you're numb inside
But I can't agree
So the world's unfair
Keep it locked out there
In here it's beautiful
Let's make this beautiful!
"That works for me."
Ghilanna, queen of the elves sat on her bed, a look of intense concentration and confusion on...
2020-04-04 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: A Battle of Wills
Draw a line in the sand
And then make a stand
Use your camera to spar
Use your guitar
When they act tough
You call their bluff
“My, my, my,” The elf queen said. “What have we here? Bust into my private chambers with nary a knock.” She laid on her lavish bed, her robe made of glistening glamouring samite, just...
2020-04-04 02:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post A Note From Personalias: So as a little bit of April Fool's Day fun, I teamed up with Peculiar Changeling. Our challenge? To each write a short story centered around a prank gone bad, but share it anonymously. Can you tell which of us wrote which story?
For ease of voting, pick which one you think Personalias wrote.
BEWARE! SPOILERS!
A Note From Personalias: So as a little bit of April Fool's Day fun, I teamed up with Peculiar Changeling. Our challenge? To each write a short story centered around a prank gone bad, but share it anonymously. Can you tell which of us wrote which story?
Beatrice gagged over the sink, retching and turning on the tap to rinse fresh water over her tongue while her roommate cackled. She rinsed, spat, rinsed again, gargled a bit, spat agai...
2020-04-01 18:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostA Note From Personalias: So as a little bit of April Fool's Day fun, I teamed up with Peculiar Changeling. Our challenge? To each write a short story centered around a prank gone bad, but share it anonymously. Can you tell which of us wrote which story?
Tyler turned his camera around to get his face. “Hey wussup?” He said. “It’s Tyler time! I’m your boy, Tyler, and it’s my favorite time of the year! No, ...
2020-04-01 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor your downloading pleasure, one of my only (my first?) forays into the realm of Science Fiction
2020-03-30 16:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostSome of my updates are me plugging what I'm working on. Some of them are letting you folks know what's going on my life and how that might affect this site, and some of them are just tiny' thank you letters.
This is a little bit of all three.
First, I'm working on the latest Cushypen piece. A bit of Mother-Daughter power switch I'm calling Roll Reversal. I'm having an oddly fun time actually and working into a rhythm.
Speaking of Cushypen, I'm taking a se...
I read from the barely legible handwriting in front of me:
“I like to eat chicken and ham chicken and ham is good to eat I like to eat chicken and ham and ham and chicken and chicken and chicken and ham I like to eat chicken and ham….”
I looked up from the paper. “And it just goes on and on. Janet,” I said, “is there an Eldritch code in this somewhere or did this child ge...
2020-03-27 12:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“What’s wrong, boss?”
“I’m sorry...?”
“What’s bothering you? Something’s bothering you.”
“Nothing is bothering me.”
It was just after lunch. The kids were laying down on their mats and the lights were out. Tracy hadn’t taken her own break quite yet and was instead grilling me. “Clark…” she said. “What happened between you and Beouf today?” &nbs...
2020-03-26 13:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Session 1 (already in progress)
“I’m not doing it,” Ciara said, arms crossed. “I’m not doing it. Not gonna happen.”
Dr. Mattis looked at Ciara from across her office. “That’s your choice.” Ciara waited for her to continue. Nothing happened but silence.
“But?” Ciara prodded.
“No buts,” the shrink said. “‘But’ implies that you don’t have a choice, and you do. &nb...
2020-03-25 22:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: Making His Name.
It’s astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness
Takes its toll
But listen closely
Not for very much longer
I have to keep control...
BONG! BONG! BONG!
Tom Dean was on his feet before the third chime rang out, with his hand clapped over his mouth so he wouldn’t scream out in surprise (or joy). This was it! It was time!...
2020-03-21 13:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostNot an update as much as a thank you to everyone. I have no new major projects. Just working and plugging away at the ones on my plate. Next week will be a one-shot request from a randomly selected gold-tier patron (The selection has already happened.) And on a minor note, I've learned how to do hyperlinks and have given links to several friends and collaborators various pages. If you want to take a look at the people who have helped and influenced me for this si...
2020-03-20 20:22:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: Pickup without picking up a thing...
As Tom and Katlynn Dean were getting home, and dreams of a faraway land outside of time and space prepared to make Tom’s evening slow to a crawl, other, less fortunate (some might argue more fortunate) people were also being picked up from their place of learning. ‘Learning’ might be too strong a word to be accurate, but these locales had lots of resources about learning letters, shapes, colo...
2020-03-20 13:24:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 11: Preparations and Plotting.
So...come up to the lab
And see what’s on the slab
I see you SHIVER with antici...
“Hey sis,” Tom tapped Katlynn’s shoulder on the bus ride home.
Katlynn turned her head and looked at her twin from across the aisle in the back. She gave him a knowing look. “What do you want?”
Crud! “Want?” Tom said. “What makes you think I wa...
2020-03-19 18:16:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Gabby was on her hands and knees, attempting to solve the hardest and most important test of her entire life: how to use all the pieces in the Center’s railroad set and make a route for the toy trains that used every bit of track without fail OR overlap. When the caretakers had given her the task four hours ago, Gabby had been positive that she could do this. Now, she wasn’t so sure.
“It’s a simple test,” Mr. Tom had said. “To double check.”