Author: Jess Mahler

  • Last Lady of Lună (S1, E9)

    Season Content Notes: abduction, blood, sexual content Nastasia I looked around the kitchen, at my five sotii, and sighed. Benj was right. The bonds were hurting. All of them. The bond with Marcus, my first, most of all, but he may not have noticed, think it was just part of his magical ‘flu’. “Look, I’m…

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  • How NOT to Save the World (S2, E2)

    Season Content notes: fictional bigotry T-minus 1 year 85 days   Lerato Schlender squeezed her partner Johlene’s hand and looked around the room. Officially, the cell network that supported the coup was dismantled. The message boards were made semi-public so most anyone could join. Unofficially, Lerato and a few others had pulled together a new,…

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  • Last Lady of Lună (S1, E8)

    Season Content Notes: abduction, blood, sexual content Benj Benj’s head was still stuffed with cotton. Talking was… not fun. But even if professionalism hadn’t required him to be here, he would have been drawn to Nastasia. He felt the bond, felt her. It felt like something was wrong. Like it was sick, too. He hadn’t…

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  • How NOT to Save the World (S2, E1)

    They’re back! You can re-read Season 1 on my website. You may recall that last year our Evil Overlord had a different name/gender on the website and newsletter. This year we’re flipping them. So Newsletter Season 2 has Ameohne’e/she and Website Season 2 will have Ma’evoto/he. I’d say sorry for any confusion but… T-minus 1…

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  • Last Lady of Lună (S1 E7)

    Season Content Notes: abduction, blood, sexual content Nastasia I stood up from my desk and stormed out of the room. Karen, who had been at my back, followed, and Benj peeled off from the door to follow us. In the last week, they had fallen into a routine, and I had found that even Karen…

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  • The Bargain (S1, Season Finale)

    Season content notes: fictional slavery, con noncon*, pain play, pain play implied, sex, reference to/discussion of child abuse, violence Two days later, Brit buried his own doubts and took Mattin into Jahlene’s glamourhame for the first time. Mattin held to the many assurances he’d been given: the lady didn’t take anyone as a toy unless…

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  • The Bargain (S1, E11)

    Season content notes: fictional slavery, con noncon*, pain play, pain play implied, sex, reference to/discussion of child abuse, violence Brit forced a bit more food into Mattin, then sent him off to sleep. He cleaned up the tray and blamed the way his own eyes watered on the westering sun. Work. Work would distract him.…

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  • Last Lady of Lună (S1, E6)

    Season Content Notes: abduction, blood, sexual content Nastasia The first thing my mother had done after the destruction of our clan was to empty as many financial accounts as she could access. It wasn’t nearly all the clan had, but it was enough for her to take me, Ozanna, and Emil, and disappear into human…

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  • I done broke myself. Have a tease

    Sorry folks, I pushed too hard getting Bound done and published and haven’t been able to write in a week. The next episode of The Bargain is drafted and I considered just posting as-is, but I’d rather give y’all good stuff late than sloppy stuff on time. But I’ve been doing a bit of plotting…

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  • The Last Lady of Lună (S1, E5)

    Season Content Notes: abduction, blood, sexual content Nastasia Marcus’ blood was sweet and rich and hit my system like the Ozanna’s 30-year-old Scotch — but better. It sang through me, and I could feel my body awaken, my cells changing. Have you ever been dehydrated? Really dehydrated? That moment when you first drink water, and…

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