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Death After Death PLUS 318-320

Ch. 318 - Someplace New

The road continued, and four days after they left Ifrin’s Crossing, they reached the foothills that marked the true borders of this Kingdom. Charia and Brin might end and begin at the river they...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 132-134

Side note, but I finished writing book 3 this week. On to book 4! How does it end? I guess we'll have to find out in a month or two...

Ch. 132 - An Impasse

The Iron City was a collection of smithies, warehouses, and...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 184-185

Ch. 184 - Restless Peace

For the better part of the next week, things were mostly quiet. A few more nobles died, but this time neither Lucas nor anyone in his employ had anything to do with it. He was so enchanted with his...

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Death After Death PLUS 315-317

Ch. 315 - Hero of the Day

After his orb disappeared into the darkness above, Simon sat just where his doppelgänger had been a moment before and waited. Instead of reflecting on that strange disconnect between the man and ...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 129-131

Ch. 129 - Heart of Fire

“Me?” the Ebon Blade asked. “A sword can do nothing alone, but with the right wielder, anything may be accomplished.”

The group of souls debated those ideas for a time, and the Ebon Bl...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 182-183

I don't want to spoil anything, but in the spirit of making sure people don't renew their patron subscriptions more than they need to, I will say that this book is only a few weeks from ending. While I love the note the story ends on, it makes me ...

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Death After Death PLUS 312-314

Ch. 312 - The Long Way

Despite his hurry to leave Hepollyon, Simon was in no hurry to arrive in Ionar. That urgency had been caused by the growing discomfort of trying to live a life that wasn’t his anymore more than any...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 126-128

Ch. 126 - Lost

Inch by inch, the blade was buried in filth. While it stood there, unused and embedded in the stone, the tiny demons built a terrible sort of nest around it, and then multiplied inside that ugly thing like e...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 180-181

Ch. 180 - Watch Out

Mage ambushes aside, on some level, Lucas felt safest when he was riding down a dark road at night. Given the number of monsters in this world that was crazy, of course, but he believed it just the same...

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Death After Death PLUS 309-311

Ch. 309 - Uprooted

After over a decade and a half in Ordanvale, Simon finally decided to leave and journey south to see the Oracle in her mountain-top city. He wasn’t looking forward to explaining who he was again for th...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 123-125

Ch. 123 - Smoldering Embers

When the tide of bottle up evil thinned into a fog, they strode forward. Now the blade could study the details of the plain stone corridor and its rotted contents, and even without any obvious s...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 178-179

Ch. 178 - What to Do

Seconds later, the two men succumbed, and he and Lord Torvin were all but alone amidst the limp bodies of his rivals. “Going straight for the throat, huh?” Lucas asked as he set his glass down.&nbs...

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Death After Death PLUS 306-308

Ch. 306 - A Stranger

Simon had been in Ordanvale for more than half a decade when he saw someone he was sure was part of the Unspoken for the first time. He was hardly the first stranger. There had been so many travelers a...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 120-122

Ch. 120 - The Songstress

Lucian fell from the sky like a bloody comet, and as he did, the blade absorbed souls all along the way, devouring the lesser ones as best it could. There would be no survivors in the meatgrinder t...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 176-177

Ch. 176 - Muted Celebration

No matter how much neither of them wanted to let go of each other, eventually they did, if only because Lucas was absolutely dead on his feet. Together, they went inside where Lucas was given po...

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Death After Death PLUS 303-305

Ch. 303 - Further Experimentation

Despite Simon’s near miss with the orb, he was undeterred. While it was fun to improve the lives of those in Ordanvale, and that summer he opened up a copper mine after a goblin purge on...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 117-119

Ch. 117 - A Real Challenge

There were no other hunters or divine attacks in the days that followed that terrible night. The Ebon Blade and its wielder made good time and defaced two more small waystones, further altering t...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 174-175

Ch. 174 - The Perfect Ambush (part 2)

Lucas fell end over end for several seconds before he stabilized his fall. That gave him just enough time to decide how he wanted to land but not enough time to come to grips with the ...

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Death After Death PLUS 300-302

Wooooo! Chapter 300! What a milestone. I love it.

It's amazing how quickly stories add up if you just keep going. If you go this far, thanks for reading!

Ch. 300 - Field Research

As the winter progressed, Simo...

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Tenebroum is Complete... For Now...

Today, Tenebroum Book 5 is now available, in its final form on Amazon in print a...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 114-116

Alright, we are back to three chapters a week, with (hopefully) no further commercial interruptions. Thank you for your patience!

Ch. 114 - The First Link

Part of the Ebon Blade expected another massive pillar of fir...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 172-173

Ch. 172 - The Tolling Bell

The bell rang nine while Skylara was getting ready, increasing Lucas’ anticipation. He felt more like bait than a dragon slayer, but he was committed now. It’s not as if he could just bail. H...

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Death After Death PLUS 297-299

Ch. 297 - A Short Delay

Simon spent the rest of the night hacking the little green monsters to pieces. He was in no hurry, even from the beginning, before the grim work exhausted him. Why should he be in a hurry? With the ...

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Continuity, and Other Topics

So first, let me preface this post by saying I'm just fine. To the best of my knowledge, I'm in perfect health. That said, last week I had a sort of thought-provoking scare.

One night after a dinner of chicken and fried rice, I was slammed ...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 112-113

I'm making a post about it in a couple of days, but just to let everyone know, I plan to resume posting this story three times a week next week or the week after. While I will still be posting Brewing Bad for a couple of more months, it is now wri...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 170-171

Ch. 170 - Last Chance

They reached the River Palace a few hours before dawn, which was even bigger than he imagined it to be. He’d heard both Heisenburgle and Skylara describe it in passing as a lesser palace or a vacati...

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Death After Death PLUS 294-296

Ch. 294 - Never Alone

For the first few minutes, Simon just enjoyed the change of scenery. As the distant rumble of the volcano faded along with the portal, he listened to the sound of rain softly pelting the leafy canopy ...

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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 110-111

Ch. 110 - Impact

The young mage fell silently and invisibly from his perch toward the hard ground below. He tried to struggle and squirm, but the blade held him, twisting his body only slightly so that he made two full rev...

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Brewing Bad Ch. 168-169

Ch. 168 - A Dangerous Liaison

‘My dearest Mr. Blue,’ the letter began. ‘I can see now that I might have been hasty in judging you. Perhaps we can arrange a rapprochement, and in time, perhaps more will come of it. I ...

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Death After Death PLUS 291-293

Ch. 291 - Experiments 

Simon went hunting that afternoon, but more to practice with his bow than for the food. He was planning to stay for a couple more days to trace runes and dig through the wealth of knowledge he...

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