Double-Blind Book 2 Announcement
Hi all! Double-Blind 2 is now available on Kindle Unlimited. This release kind of snuck up...
2023-08-30 22:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Announcement, Backlog, and Schedule
Monarch Book 3: Whitefall, is available for pre-order on Kindle Unlimited and 2023-06-15 01:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Launch Day Announcement!
Double-Blind Book 1 is up on Kin...
2023-05-23 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XXII
Armor doesn’t make the soldier. Strapping a scholar, butcher, or brigand into a breastplate doesn’t do much to change the appearance of the man within. They’ll present as a better armored albeit potentially wealthier version of their previou...
2023-02-22 22:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 215
Miles’ eyes bore into me. It wasn’t like during the panel with the feds, where he was already doubting himself and willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. If he caught a single inkling of deceit, there was no question. He was gone.
...
2023-02-17 23:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 214
Loss, despair, and a tiny flicker of hope all tore at my mind, burning any semblance of cognizance to ash. Nothing mattered. Not the order, not whatever overcomplicated bullshit I was trying to accomplish here. None of it meant anything if Ellison...
2023-02-16 22:29:56 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 213
Before
Ellison was particular about schedules. Timing. I’d left him at the library, and he’d instructed me to pick him up at a quarter to seven. So I shifted my schedule around, made sure Russ—my manager at the laundromat—kn...
2023-02-15 23:37:52 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 212
Hi folks,
Sorry about the low output. I’ve been hammering out the details of the end of the arc, and if all goes according to plan, we’ll be finishing out Double-Blind 2 next week, which means we’ll get a prope...
2023-02-10 22:50:13 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 211
Ellison looked…
I swallowed down the swell of emotion and tried to shake it off.
Kids are small. That’s obvious. But you don’t truly realize until you take responsibility for one, how slowly they grow. Maybe it wouldn’t feel so...
2023-02-08 22:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 210
The movement was blazingly fast and perfectly controlled. Only Mile’s wrist and forearm moved, his shoulder motionless, as he pulled something black and carbon from his inventory and pointed it at me.
Time slowed down.
Muzzle flare f...
2023-02-04 01:47:45 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XXI
“A purse of ten golden rods.” Alten said immediately.
Those who heard him immediately whispered among themselves, and for good reason. The price was astronomical. Enough for a massive home in the noble section of Whitefall, and a gods da...
2023-02-04 01:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 209
The trail of blood led to a small alcove beneath a rock formation reminiscent of an overpass. There it stopped, a small puddle forming on the ground but no Miles.
“Stopped here to rest? Patch himself up?” I mused.
“O...
2023-02-02 23:42:39 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 208
“Ordinator. No listed level. So you weren’t bullshitting. Bout time I had some luck, you’re really saving my ass here,” Maria looked up from her screen. She dusted herself off, and for the first time, she smiled.
“I help you, we bo...
2023-02-01 23:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 207
Blood everywhere. Bodies strewn across the ground, limbs and arms overlapping. Armor reduced to chunks of metal and gaping flesh. A twin blade forged of dark iron and silver edges was cast aside, familiar.
She knelt at the center, both hands...
2023-02-01 23:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XX
“Kick his fuckin’ head in!”
I’d heard whispers of places like this scattered throughout Topside.
They called them pits. Small, underground brawling rings where disgruntled men and women tested themselves against each other. Und...
2023-02-01 00:05:57 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch Webtoon Update (And Sketches!)
Hi all,
My apologies for the lack of Monarch chapters this week. Had to do some work on the webtoon, which, as it turns out, is a little time consuming. This won’t happen often, as I’m told pre-production is the most demanding part of th...
2023-01-27 23:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 206
One of the controlled vampires rammed a pointed hand into the back of a smaller vampire in front of him, ripping out a red chunk. It was impossible to see at this distance, but given the location it was probably a heart.
A few others carried...
2023-01-27 23:18:36 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 205
Hell looked a lot like California.
The towering basalt formations below were like pictures I’d seen of the Devil’s Postpile monument, only warped by nightmares and blown up to a hundred times the scale. A sprawling wasteland of hexagonal...
2023-01-26 22:32:51 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 204
I stepped off the elevator. Compared to the beach-party atmosphere of the second floor, the atmosphere here was night and day. It was cold, and instead of vibrant tropical faire, I was treated to a wasteland of gray brick and gothic architecture w...
2023-01-25 05:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 203
They know what you did, during the transposition.
You thought no one saw. That you’d just get away with it.
But now it’s over.
You think they’ll take you prisoner? No. Maybe in the old days, b...
2023-01-21 00:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XIX
I endured an endless litany of well-wishing, brown-nosing, and curious questions. All throughout, the table at the center of the banquet hall beckoned. I salivated, staring at the spread.
My father had pulled out all the stops. The seemingly...
2023-01-21 00:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Ch 202
“You’re sure you don’t want me to come in with you?” Halima asked for what was probably the third time.
We back-trekked to the creek, just outside of the ripple. The frayed end of the rope was still hanging, abandoned, from the tree,...
2023-01-20 00:05:14 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Lillian I
The cat was dead.
Lillian crouched, careful to keep her skirts clear of the gutter as she placed the sleeve of milk aside and leaned down to get a better look. A slow sadness washed over her as she removed a canvas glove and pressed her fing...
2023-01-19 00:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH201
My heart raced. Fuck. Fuck. I’d all but spelled out in flashing neon that he was walking into a trap. Miles should have been able to handle it. Realistically, he should have gone in prepared with a strong team, equipped to ...
2023-01-17 02:31:34 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH200
We waited for the codex’s hold to take effect. Nick shivered, eyes fixed to the ground, paradoxically looking worse the more he healed.
I balanced on the precipice of doubt. As cold as it sounds, this failure was the evidence ...
2023-01-17 02:29:23 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XVIII
I made it.
Over halfway there. There was a part of me that still couldn’t believe this was actually happening, that I’d survived. That the castle—and everyone in it was alive and well.
I actually made it.
<... 2023-01-14 02:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XVII
“You’re a fool.” Annette’s face was the very picture of scorn, her cheeks flaming red.
We had caught back up to the carriage quickly, and now Annette stood awkwardly in the center, gripping the hem of her silver skirts tightly.
... 2023-01-14 02:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH199
I drove my knife through a grimeling’s jaw, blade parting flesh and muscle as if it I was tearing through paper.
The second the blade was occupied, two of them—distracted with… someone—immediately wheeled and ch...
2023-01-09 23:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch - Whitefall XVI
I saw her for a flicker in time. One so brief I wasn’t confident I saw her at all. She was younger, to be certain, and the short cropped brown-hair didn’t quite gel with my memories.
My view was obscured as the carriage jost...
2022-12-30 21:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH198
Time stopped.
My pulse drove a heavy rhythm, and the red strands from <Harrowing Anticipation> pulsed alongside it, accelerating. I read the cave like sheet music, every cavefiend a note, the path forward annotated a...
2022-12-29 00:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post