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Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 14 (alpha)
Chapter Fourteen – “Is it all over?”At that point, I didn’t have much left but the cleanup. Still, more often than not, that work’s even harder than the actual sleuthing, because you’re trying to make people whole again who you know are never going to be fully right. You know that far be...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 13 (all)
Chapter Thirteen – “That Kind Of Story”Dueling is terrible business.It’s not a skill you can spend that much time polishing. Sure, if you wanted to, you could spend day in and out focusing on combat, but the problem with duels is that they’re custom tailored to the combatants, so if you sp...
Weekly Update - 2/19/25
So I'm not immune to writer's block, as much as I wish that I was. It's just a pitfall you learn to deal with as a professional creator, but there's no easy way out of it, not even for those of us who've dealt with it on and off for decades. Typically, when that happens, I go cle...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Cast of Characters (midpoint)
(Author's Note: We're well over halfway through Book 2, but I realized I haven't posted a Cast of Characters for a good long while, and that's on me. So, if you needed a refresher, here's the current Cast of Characters for Quaranteam. As always, don't read this if you're ...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Ch. 36
Chapter Thirty-SixJune 24th, 2021Maya panted heavily, reaching up to wipe sweat off her forehead, her legs still shaking as Andy squeezed his arms around her while she giggled. “I know I’m supposed to be getting used to that, but even almost a year later, you still totally take my fucking breath...
What's Up Friday?
As my way of saying thank you for everyone's patience while I've been getting better, I'm going to do a poll for about the next day or so, on what I should write for Friday, 2/14/22! You have three options to choose from, as pointed out in the newspost from today - the next QT2chapter, t...
Weekly Update - 2/12/25
Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion...I'm feeling myself again, which is good, and I'm starting to make progress on getting caught up. I lost a good portion of today editing and proofreading other people's copy, but, on the p...
Quaranteam: Book 2 - Intermission 7
Intermission Seven – Pete/Alex/Louise/OnyxJune 17th, 2021 – Los Angeles, California“Put some pants on, Louise,” Pete said as he glanced out the window. “They’re here a few minutes early, and the last thing I want is us talking to the government without pants on.”“So, I’m getting up...
Weekly Update - 2/5/25
Well, it isn't Walking Pneumonia, thank the heavens. Friday morning of last week, I woke up with a hacking cough and a sense of complete exhaustion. It wasn't a complete surprise to me - I'd bailed on poker night a few days earlier, and had been trying to get as much sleep as I could to ...
Captains' Days - Ch. 5
Chapter FiveThe next on Tommy’s list to get prepped was Eduardo Sanchez, or as he was more commonly known, Reckless Eddie. And as chaotic as he was, Reckless Eddie was never that hard to track down. If he wasn’t somewhere else, he was usually in Rio De Janeiro.Reckless Eddie had a legend a coupl...
Weekly Update - 1/29/25
Things were actually going well up until yesterday. I'd made progress in some stuff I was working on, I knocked out the QT:Phil's Talechapter in almost record time for me, and I felt like just maybe I could get caught up. Then this morning I woke up with a super scratchy voice and a throat f...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 17 (alpha)
Chapter SeventeenLess than two days later, Will was at the Crossroads Diner, the cold winter weather keeping all but the most determined of students out and away for the night, but it was good, because it had let Will spend the time healing up from his duel at the gathering. He hadn’t had any dama...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 16 (all)
Chapter Sixteen“Oh what the actualfuck,” Will grumbled beneath his breath, as he glanced over at Silversmith. “Is this guy for real?”“Capparelli! Do you accept or are you just as much of a coward as your father was?” Nathan snarled, clearly trying to get Will’s temper up.“Hey!” Wil...
Quaranteam: Phil's Tale - Ch. 23
Chapter 23November 18th, 2020One of the things Phil had learned was completely inescapable in his life was that if Linda had something he needed to do, he’d better get used to the plan that he was just going to have to do it, and the less questions he asked in advance, the better off he’d probab...
Breakpoint - Part 17
Part SeventeenHarry“I’m starting to get worried,” Harry said to Stella. “Like, maybe they fell into a time hole level of worried. We should’ve heard back from Rin and Mick by now.”“If they did, they’ll find their way back,” Stella told him as she stroked his chest in bed, the cool ...
Weekly Update - 1/22/25
It's not been a great week, so for those of you who just want to know what's happening (and get angry when I talk my personal life and/or politics), there'll be a Breakpointchapter up as soon as I can get it finished, and Quaranteam: Phil's Talefor probably Saturday or maybe even Sun...
Weekly Update - 1/15/25
You know, when I talked in Quaranteamabout the US invading Canada, it was sort of done as a tongue-in-cheek joke between writers, but the longer both the real world goes and the QT-verse goes, it seems like the joke gets less funny as the potential for it actually happening goes up. If it happens, I...
Quaranteam: Book 2, Ch. 35
Chapter Thirty-FiveMay 14th, 2021As happy as he was to have his two daughters delivered safely into the world, Andy wanted nothing so much at that moment as to go home and take a shower. It was late afternoon, and Andy was planning on heading back to the house in a few hours, but he was exhausted. A...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 7 (alpha)
Chapter SevenJuly 18th, 2020Joe had wanted to complain when the text message had sprung to his phone saying that their usual 9 AM morning meeting had been postponed to 3 PM instead, but his frustration quickly dissipated once he realized that meant he could sleep in instead, and so he, Liv, Tori and...
Quaranteam: Unbroken Mold - Ch. 6 (all)
Chapter SixJuly 17th, 2020“Good to see you Tims, Tom,” the General said, looking between the various windows of the conference call. He was a man in his early fifties who’d spent much of his career in Pararescue, the special ops division of the Air Force. His hair had gone from red to silver o...
Weekly Update - 1/8/25
What a goddamn week. I spent the back half of last week fighting off a head cold that I'm still working on, and on Monday, I started a new diet/exercise regiment, because frankly, I haven't cared for the way I've looked in mirrors and photos for a while now. Nothing too extreme - I know ...
New Year, New You (one-shot)
New Year, New You(a Jonas Silversmith story)By Devin McTaggartDecember 29th, 2024I often tell you that many of the tales I’m having you commit to this journal for me have a moral baked into them, but this one might seem especially blunt in its message. Still, nevertheless, a tale has been requeste...
Weekly Update - 1/1/25
I didn't die in the Midwest. Let's start there.For the most part, the Christmas holiday was actually generally nice, barring the asshole in the airport who decided he had to be smug to my t-shirt. (I flew back to the Mid wearing a shirt that says 'Make Orwell Fiction Again' and a guy...
Captains' Days - Ch. 4
Chapter FourIt had mostly been a quiet month or so since he’d brought Kaya to see the Antiquarian, and he’d done his best to make sure nobody knew that he was snooping around, preparing for whenever the next Captain’s Day was, but also making sure he was doing his job, and that he was taking c...
Weekly Update - 12/18/24
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go.This, of course, means I'm gearing up for my yearly voyage into the Arctic Circle, aka 'the Midwest.' I spent 5-6 days every year going back to The Old Country, where I will see my remaining living family, celebrate Chris...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 13 (alphas)
Chapter Thirteen – “That Kind Of Story”Dueling is terrible business.It’s not a skill you can spend that much time polishing. Sure, if you wanted to, you could spend day in and out focusing on combat, but the problem with duels is that they’re custom tailored to the combatants, so if you sp...
Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 12 (all)
Chapter Twelve – “Some of the Pieces”The amount of security we brought around the Dark Docks within the next few hours was, let’s be honest, borderline insane, but it was absolutely necessary, considering what we were dealing with. Charlotte had brought in several of her hunters to run extra...
Weekly Update - 12/11/24
Man, I had such a head of steam on me, and then a DayJob problem sprung up and knocked most of a day out of me. No matter. Ever tried, ever failed. Try again, fail again, fail better. I've just about got next month's Packoff to the commissioner (will do that before I leave tonight) and then ...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 16 (alpha)
Chapter Sixteen“Oh what the actualfuck,” Will grumbled beneath his breath, as he glanced over at Silversmith. “Is this guy for real?”“Capparelli! Do you accept or are you just as much of a coward as your father was?” Nathan snarled, clearly trying to get Will’s temper up.“Hey!” Wil...
A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 15 (all)
Chapter Fifteen‘What the hell am I doinghere?’ Will asked himself, not for the first time since the Spring Gala started, and most likely not the last time before the night would be through. He wasn’t entirely surprised to see most of the people sitting at tables in tribal lines, although it wa...
