Two’s Company | 3-XIII
Nothing happened. There was a weird texture on the bit of skin that was over the hole, one that felt a bit like sand, but apart from that, I was unharmed. Which, according to the expression on Slate’s...
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“Down on the ground!” the officer with the microphone yelled. “Now!” I sighed, dropping to my knees. It was gonna be one of those arrests, then. “We’re all unarmed!” I called out as I put my hands...
View ArticleTwo’s Company | 3-XV
By the time they finally came to get me, I’d had to resort to show-tunes, which I’m fairly certain is a violation of some right or another. The same private from before entered the room, unshackling me...
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How Kath Burned Her Hair Off This probably isn’t how it happens. “Well, boys,” Kath Jones drawls, thumbing the brim of a non-existent hat, “looks like we got ourselves a regular Italian standoff.” Her...
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How Sorayah Changed Her Clothes. Sorayah Khan has gotten into the habit of wandering at night. It’s not like she needs to sleep anymore, not really. She… can? Kind of? It doesn’t feel exactly the same...
View ArticleHell Or High Water | Prologue
This is how it happens. The boat has been swept, 50 times over. The windows are bullet-proof glass, the frame sturdy enough to withstand a bomb blast. The dock it floats at is owned by a neutral...
View ArticleHell Or High Water | 4-I
The previous episodes took place in June, August and September of 201X, in order. ҉ February, 201Y It is impossible to dress formally in Australian summer. For the fiftieth time in the last hour, I...
View ArticleHell Or High Water | 4-II
It took me a second to distinguish the corpse from the mud that surrounded it. It lay face-down, on the very edge of the water, feet and calves being routinely submerged and then exposed again as the...
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Existence is pain. Silversmith is not going away, but updates are going back to ‘whenever’. I only have enough time/energy to write, like, 1/6 of a chapter a week right now, so I’m trying, but there’s...
View ArticleHiatus
Boy, this sucks to write. Quite frankly, I haven’t been enjoying writing Silversmith for quite a while now. Some of that was the stresses of my life, but the time away from it has made it clear that...
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