Rain drenched Erich, beating down in waves as it obscured the landscape. He was on a road somewhere outside of Madla, two hours to the east of the hamlet, however far that was. In that time, he hadn’t seen anything of note. A t...
2025-10-15 14:25:13 +0000 UTC View Post“That wasn’t all of them?” Erich asked, frowning while he absently rubbed a soiled towel over his hands. “How many more are we talking about?”
Derl shrugged helplessly. The dim communal eating hall around them was fille...
2025-10-09 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThey spotted Madla’s wooden walls about the time that the sky began to grow dark. The rain began to fall a bit harder as they pushed onward toward the torches that lined the top of the wooden fortifications.
“That’s strange,” A...
2025-10-07 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the rainy season for you,” Allthier remarked happily, loosely holding onto a rope that was connected to Benny the ox’s neck. “Don’t be surprised if we don’t see the sun for another couple of weeks. There might be ...
2025-10-02 18:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostErich stepped out of the darkness into driving rain. He reached up, shielding his eyes from the rain as he looked up into the murky gray sky. There wasn’t anything to see but uniform low hanging clouds.
He reached up to pull hi...
2025-09-30 22:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone! I am kicking off the return to Swords of The West with some of the initial cover art for book one (tentatively - Against the Storm). The first 25 chap...
2025-09-30 18:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostSomnus is done. That's... a lot. It also doesn't mean that I'm taking a pause. My next project, Swords of the West, is a progression fantasy focusing, unsurprisingly from the title, on a guy trying to become a sword master.
This serie...
2025-09-24 03:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostKat reversed gravity, launching herself into the air with a thought. Ten to fifteen gozzlam heads tracked her squawking hatred at Kat’s rising form. Before Kat could get more than ten paces off of the floor of the swamp they took to ...
2025-09-23 13:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostKat stood silently on the twenty fourth floor. In front of her was a gleaming ziggurat made out of what looked to be a single carved block of obsidian. Etched into its side were drawings of warriors from a thousand different races, eac...
2025-09-18 13:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostKat opened her eyes to see Belle slumped in the chair next to her, the arm of her body armor and infiltration suit burned off and revealing scarred flesh beneath. The older woman shifted as Kat sat up, hissing in pain as her movement caused ...
2025-09-16 20:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostImproved Laser snapped to life sending a pencil thin beam of energy directly into the floor guardian’s eye. The laser seemed to flicker, pulsing at speeds that would be invisible to anyone but the superhuman as the coherent stream of energ...
2025-09-11 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostQuickly, Kat checked the time on her smartpanel. A little bit after five o’clock.
“I’m sorry Lieutenant Turner,” she said, turning to look the nervous looking soldier in the eyes. “If they are deploying forces like that...
2025-09-09 23:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostKat bit back a groan of frustration as she jogged through the hallways of the complex toward a concealed security station. She would’ve preferred to move faster, but Belle was struggling to keep up even at the current rate. As much a...
2025-09-04 15:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostGunfire echoed down a half dozen hallways, giving Kat an approximate map of where the Millennium forces were. She took a left and broke off into a fast jog, slowing down after a couple hundred paces to give Belle and her security detail a ch...
2025-09-02 12:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m jammed.” Belle’s voice was clipped as the woman stood up suddenly, her assistant scurrying backward to get out of the way. “It seems like all communications outside of the facility are being blocked. Unless we can ...
2025-08-28 14:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post“H-how many more d-dungeons do you need?” Jasper was simple and to the point. The second he sat down with Davis towering behind him, the other shareholder dove into the crux of the matter.
“Eleven for a full clear,” Kat r...
2025-08-26 12:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Bored.” Whippoorwill remarked, throwing a tennis ball up in the air and catching it again. “Beyond bored.” “Sorry Whip,” Kat replied. “W
“Bored.” Whippoorwill remarked, throwing a tennis ball up in ...
2025-08-21 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostKat took a deep breath, doing her best to steady her nerves. The unfamiliar weight of metal and circuitry on her left arm didn’t do much to
Kat took a deep breath, doing her best to steady her nerves. The unfamiliar weight of m...
2025-08-19 12:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon took a deep breath, chest swelling as its scales scraped against the rocky floor before letting the air back out again. It was b
The dragon took a deep breath, chest swelling as its scales scraped against the rocky floor bef...
2025-08-14 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt was most certainly not ‘fun.’ A week of hiking and tracking the orcs, all while constantly fending off attacks from the wolves and bears of the forest was far from enjoyable. More than that, Kat hadn’t exactly studied the anim...
2025-08-12 13:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostKat could hear the orcs chasing after her. Their heavy breathing and angry yells followed her as she wove in and out of the trees. Despite all her stat points in agility, Kat didn’t dare to look back. Her legs might be faster t...
2025-08-08 14:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Town princess?” Dorrik asked as they ran alongside the panicking townsfolk toward where the bell was still ringing. “I thought that princesses were a higher noble rank, not something you would find in a small border village such...
2025-08-06 21:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon’s wings flapped once and it was in the air. A blink of the eye later, the downdraft from its ascent hit the three of them, blowing Kat’s hair everywhere and threatening to push them into the ground. On instinct she reach...
2025-07-31 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBright but diffuse light shown down from a featureless sky. From the second Kat had opened her eyes, she’d been sitting atop a square pillar with nothing around her. Each side of her platform was about six paces long, just big enough...
2025-07-29 18:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe image of Dringbek flickered slightly as some sort of interference from the laboratory interrupted the transmission for a second. He inclined his head slightly.
“Shareholder Debs, Representative Ahn,” Dringbek said, a plastic sm...
2025-07-24 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe snake opened its mouth, letting out a sibilant, hissing bellow of anger before lunging toward the three of them.
Kat yanked herself to the side while using her empowered domain to push downward on the guardian’s head, but it managed to...
2025-07-22 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you ready to finish up with this level?” Dorrik asked, his eyes flickering back and forth at the various aliens that seemed to be milling listlessly around the adventurer’s hall.
Kat followed his gaze. None of the othe...
2025-07-17 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMichelle ran two steps forward, cocking her arm and throwing the tennis ball wrapped in her grip as far as she could. Hans exploded from where he was sitting, galloping after it in an avalanche of fur and energy.
Kat shook her head, sm...
2025-07-15 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostKat’s index finger tapped against her knee, an almost inaudible metronome more fit for speed metal or hyperpop than a march or waltz. Her cup of coffee sat in front of her, steaming but untouched while Dorrik stood silently, leaning agains...
2025-07-10 14:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe scrape and clank of metal on stone announced the intruders minutes before they actually appeared. When Kat had earned her improved hearing, she’d thought over a lot of the perk’s implications, but one that had never occurred to her w...
2025-07-08 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post