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Weekly Update - 8/6/25
I know it looks like nothing's been happening, but we're getting caught up behind the scenes. I got next chapter of A Pack Of His Own off to its commissioner last night (which ended up changing my expectation of this arc being three chapters into... maybe a bit more...) although that took so...
Quaranteam: Book 2 - Ch. 44
Chapter Forty-Four August 27th, 2021 “You know, when people talk about ‘catching strays,’ this isn’t what they mean, babe,” Piper told Andy with a tender grin, as she adjusted his shirt for him. “You don’t have to accept every woman who throws herself at you. You get that, right?” ...
Weekly Update - 7/30/25
Well, I survived Colorado and Red Rocks, although good fucking God, somebody could've warned me that it was like 25+ flights of stairs straight up to get to seats. I was there to see Andrew McMahon set a new record at Red Rocks - he was opener, headliner and closing act. He played in all the var...
Weekly Update - 7/23/25
I should've had a news update up yesterday, but I was off seeing my very first concert at Red Rocks (which is impressive, considering I've seen over 300 concerts in my lifetime). If you aren't familiar with Andrew McMahon in any of his various incarnations (Something Corporate, Jack'...
Quaranteam: Phil's Tale - Ch. 25
Chapter 25 November 19th, 2020 (morning) Phil valued his sleep more than just about anything, but when the phone rings and the caller ID on the face of the cell phone reads ‘White House Switchboard,’ ignoring the call seemed a particularly poor option to entertain. He hopped out of bed, grabbing...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 20 (alphas)
Chapter Twenty The next few weeks of Will’s life were surprisingly quiet and easy-going. It was nice, and let all his partners spend some serious time getting to know one another, which was something they had all desperately needed. No outside influence, no classes getting in the way – just lots...
Weekly Update - 7/16/25
Good lord, I did not realize how much of a mental toll this year had taken on me until I was sitting in a cafe on the Rhine River with some friends, and just let the weight of the world slip off my shoulders. It isn't even me personally - it's the whole damn country going to shit. But hey, I...
Quaranteam: Book Two - Ch. 43
Chapter Forty-Three August 26th, 2021Andy always took a little bit of extra time adjusting to international travel and beating jet lag, so they had arrived yesterday and tried to keep him awake as long as possible before finally letting him sleep for fourteen hours, which seemed to get him onto loca...
Weekly Update - 7/9/25
What a wild and weird trip it's already been. I'm in a hotel lobby in Coln, where I've got a handful of hours to kill waiting for my friend to come by and pick me up, but it's a good point for me to get out an update and let people know where I am, what's been going on and how th...
Before The Storm - Ch. 18
Chapter Eighteen“I found all sorts of things we can use in the salvage yard, boss,” Loz said as he poked his head out of the back of the shuttle. “And I got most of it at a steal of a deal. Like this!” He pulled out a large piece of machinery that was burnt at one end, although the mechanic ...
Weekly Update - 7/2/25
I hate being cryptic, but it's been a rough couple of weeks for reasons I can't really get into. That said, on Monday, I leave for my week's vacation out with friends in Germany, and maybe the mental gymnastics of getting ready for that has contributed to the general malaise that's p...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 19 (all readers)
Chapter Nineteen They barely made it through the motel room door. The walk had been one brutal push to keep from mauling each other in some random alleyway, and Will had counted himself lucky that the motel she’d picked was only a few blocks away, and that they’d made every light and crosswalk a...
Merlin's Gift - Pt. 3
(Author's Note: The numbering for the Merlin's Gift series, like Morgana's Gift, will be a little strange. Part 1 was the Prologue, Part 2 was Chapter 1 and Part 3 is Intermission One, with Part 4 to eventually be Chapter 2. We apologize, but the numbering system is a legacy artifact of ...
Weekly Update - 6/25/25
We're starting to get there! I got QT2:42 out a couple of days ago, and I'll post Merlin's Gift 3 in the wee hours of the morning after I get back from poker night and finish it. (It's about 2/3rds of the way there right now.) Then I'm going to launch straight into getting caught...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Ch. 42
Chapter Forty-Two August 2nd, 2021 “C’mon, Andy, put yer fuckin’ back into it,” Lauren said to him as he pulled Taylor’s hips back towards him, the two blondes putting him through his paces early in the morning, because the two of them needed to get to their workout and get to the 49ers tr...
Weekly Update - 6/18/25
Sometimes, it's just not happening. I try, I sit at the keyboard and sometimes I just even type garbage to try and get something onto paper. There are days where it feels like I'm one step away from "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." (If you don't get that reference, d...
Have Totem, Will Travel - Ch. 2 (alphas)
Chapter Two – “Assuming it is a head”Little Larry isn’t a bad guy, but he’s just never been quite up to snuff for the front lines Druid life. Oh, don’t get me wrong, LL’s a hell of a magical mind, but what he’s never been great at is being under pressure. In terms of researchers, LL ...
Weekly Update - 6/11/25
No lies - the last few days have been particularly rough. Those of you who don't like it when I talk politics, tap out here and just come back for the next story post, which will probably be tomorrow or Friday, depending on what level you are. (I'm still working on Ch. 2 of HTWT for Alphas.)...
Quaranteam - Dream Casting/Visual Guide
So, we're a few subscriptions away from hitting the tier, but I realize that I've been a little light on delivering content for the last couple of weeks, so we'll call it even.Attached to this post is what I'm currently called the 'dream casting' or visual guide for Quarantea...
Have Totem, Will Travel - Ch. 1 (all)
HAVE TOTEM, WILL TRAVELBook Two of The Druid Gunslinger LegendsA Blake Conrad taleChapter One – “Whole Room Marked ‘T’” “Do I look like FedEx?” I asked my sister as she and her friend sat in my office in downtown San Francisco. My sister, Charlotte, the Huntsmistress, wasn’t one you ...
Quaranteam: Book 2 - Chapter 41
Chapter Forty-One August 1st, 2021 Andy was stirred to consciousness by a hand smoothing along his chest. His eyelids felt heavy, and he didn’t want to open them, but it wasn’t as though he felt particularly tired either. Just, his body would like another five to ten minutes to get its shit toge...
Weekly Update - 6/4/25
QT2:41 will be dropping any minute now. I'm waiting for a regional dialogue edit pass (yep, more Jordan in this one) but it's basically done otherwise. Once you read it, if you want to talk about it on the Discord, that's great, but PLEASE use spoiler tags, especially for the rest of Boo...
Weekly Update - 5/28/25
Okay, we're getting there. I'm about halfway through the next QTSS chapter that'll go to its commission probably tomorrow, and then I'm going to bang through QT2:41 for Friday/Saturday. I have some of the outline of that sketched out, and as we get towards the end of Book 2, some of ...
Quaranteam: Selected Servicing - Ch. 3 (alphas)
Part Three - “Weirder By The Day”January 3rd, 2021 Fiona had woken up early in the morning and yet again, for the third day in a row, Andy wasn’t asleep in bed beside them. She was starting to get a little annoyed and wondered if something in the New Year hadn’t been settling right with her ...
Quaranteam: Selected Servicing - Ch. 2 (all)
Part Two - “Our World Now”January 2nd, 2021Uncharacteristically, and for the second day in a row, Andy Rook had gotten up early, but this time, he hadn’t gotten up alone. He’d gotten up early yesterday as perhaps the only person who hadn’t been completely shitfaced the night before, on New...
Weekly Update - 5/21/25
What a strange ass week this one's been. I like to think of myself as mostly doing this full-time now, but every so often, the Old Folks call with a short deadline, a big problem and a sack full of cash, so I tend to take those gigs (especially if they're from folks I enjoyed working with th...
Before The Storm - Ch. 17
Chapter Seventeen“How the hell did that happen?” Sketch asked the tall blonde standing next to him. “The Weaponeer is typically one of the oldest members of the order.”“That was the problem the order was having,” Charlotte said. “They knew they needed to not have any one singular perso...
Brewster's Brood - Pt. 42
Part Forty-twoMrs. Churchill – 3/13/2017 – Tuesday – 4:28 pmThe day had gone surprisingly well, and Max had been graciously compliant, leaving semen in no less than three different women over the last few hours, but now they were on a breather, and Mrs. Churchill was delighted to see an almost...
Weekly Update - 5/14/25
Not been my finest week, not going to lie. Part of it's been that getting QT2:i8 right, and there were a lot of important spinning plates and I kept being unhappy with one or more of them and kept throwing parts of it away. The riot is obviously going to be a big deal in the political backdrop ...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Intermission 8
(Author's note: Apologies for the lateness on this one. I had to get it right, and it took a lot more attempts than I would like to admit.)Intermission Eight - Allegra July 31st, 2021 – Washington, D.C. Allegra stood on the balcony of her seventh-floor hotel room at the State Plaza Hotel, look...
