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  • Announcement / Snippet Week #4 — Introducing My New Writing Partner!

    Hey all, as many of you know, there’s some big changes around here and one of them is I won’t be keeping the stories going alone anymore. I have a new partner, Raidon Phoenix, who’s introducing herself today with a snippet from her original world. Enjoy! Who here in the Story Aerie enjoys messing with…

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  • Snippet #2: Wolves of Central Park

    The woods were dark around her. The stars hidden behind the thick canopy. Even the unending lights of the city were invisible. She looked around, feeling the drum of her pulse, hearing the bellows of her breath.

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  • Snippet #1: The Grasslands Prologue

    Hey folks, it’s November again, and that means Snippets! If you’re new this year, every November I pause the serials to give myself a chance to catch up/build a buffer, and to share snippets of upcoming stories/story ideas I’m playing with. As always, if there’s something you REALLY want to see, comment, email or DM…

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  • Snippet Week Day 6: Ulfsark

    This is one I played with several years ago and put away because I couldn’t figure out how to make the story work. I think with the new growth-centered structures I’m exploring, it will go a lot better. It was inspired by an essay I stumbled across, proposing that the berserk and ulfsark of Norse…

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  • Snippet Week Day 5: The Grasslands

    New story — a post-portal epic fantasy. Ten years ago Chana had found herself and her infant daughter in a strange world surrounded by strange people. She managed to build a life, a home, and a family in this strange place. Now they are being destroyed. The Grasslands is a working title. The Grasslands Episode…

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  • Snippet Week Day 4: Bound by His Oath Sequel

    Bound by His Oath was and remains one of my popular stories and several folks have asked about a sequel. Good news: It’s coming. Just a matter of when. I don’t have a snippet for this one, but here’s the gist: Sir John is coping with life under the lady-witch. (The fact that his calling…

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  • Snippet Week Day 3: A Smear of Blood

    A Smear of Blood is a high fantasy story a petty thief who must /become/ much more to stop the destruction of the goddes. His feet and hands were shredded, but he barely noticed as he slammed into the alter. Unthinkingly, reflexively, he murmered a half-forgotten childhood prayer as he levered himself up. Angry muttering…

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  • Snippet Week Day 2: Next Came Respect

    Next Came Respect is the sequel to First Came Trust. Like First, it’ll be a short story, a single season with less than 10 episodes. Next Came Respect Snippet Dalma didn’t care what these people called it. They had made eir sibling a slave and made Lilah’s slavery the price for Dalma and Sherzod’s safety.…

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  • Snippet Week Day 1: Meadowsweet Season 2

    Hey folks. I’ve afk this week and decided this was the perfect time for a little detour/sightseeing trip. With Epsilon wrapped up, there’s room in the schedule for a new story. In fact, depending on how things shake out over the next 15 months there will be room for up to six new stories. This…

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  • Snippet 5: George and the Dragon

    A few weeks ago I shared the first few scenes of Fealty, from my story collection Whips & Fangs. I’ve toyed with the idea of a sequel collection, and this draft is one of the stories that might go in it. Don’t worry, you get the full story this time. For one thousand years, our…

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