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Perry flew in a straight line, hoping that he’d minimize how much motion the men on the roof could see. They were high up, five stories, on top of a tower, and while they were surely keep...
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Mette got her debrief in the morning before they were set to go have breakfast.
“What do you mean you don’t care?” asked Mette when he was just about finished.
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It took twelve hours before the word ‘symboulion’ started to lose all meaning. The thing that Perry couldn’t figure out was how they had ended up with such a long 2024-03-12 00:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the ship back on course and the remaining hijackers safely divested of their weapons and under armed guard, the loose command structure that was percolating on the Cast...
2024-03-06 20:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn case it's not obvious, writing continues to be a pretty slow process for me, which is a major problem given 1) the ostensible schedule of this web serial and 2) the fact that I'm ideall...
2024-03-02 17:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter, this week has been kind of a mess for me because while I was back from vacation, my son still didn't have school.
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Perry felt the effects of the...
2024-02-25 09:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back from vacation! I was down in Florida with my family, watching manatees and finding shells on the beach. I'm pretty wiped right now, which is at least partly because of airplane de...
2024-02-20 01:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to be taking a vacation next week, so will be missing two chapters. There's a good chance that I'll have some time to write while on vacation, but I think that time is going to g...
2024-02-07 04:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a special Patreon-only bonus chapter that imagines Perry going to somewhere other than the world he canonically went to for book four. Why did I think this would be funny? I don't ...
2024-02-03 22:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostHappy 100 chapters!
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Perry spent about eighteen hours straight helping with the aftermath of the attack. He was drawing attention to himself, he knew that, but at least he ...
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Perry hadn’t meant to talk to anyone. He had been trying to stay to himself, getting in and out of the libraries, eating food where he could, and spending his time preparing f...
2024-01-30 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure that it still exists, but when I was growing up, I heard a lot about the dreading Friday Night Death Slot, where network executives put programs that were failing so they coul...
2024-01-27 07:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter got away from me a bit, and might get cut in two for RoyalRoad, given that it's almost 9K words (I aim for 4K and usually end up with 5K). Also I hate doing this, but I might ...
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The free housing was both better and worse than Perry had thought it would be. He had half been expecting that it would be a flophouse, people stacked on pallets or something like that, and...
2024-01-19 07:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, these chapters are coming out at ass o'clock, but I think this is better than punting until tomorrow (for me) at a reasonable time.
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The first thing Perry noticed were the trees,...
2024-01-16 08:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostI think this is technically a 'tag' or something rather than a 'final chapter'. I have strong memories of reading through Scholastic Book Fair chapter books as a kid and getting little preview things....
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The goal was to hold things together. That was the only goal, at least for the next few years. They had lost people and damaged equipment, and the cycle of harvests had...
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The micro-fusion-fission bombs had wiped out half of the incoming insect swarm, and that was the only thing that gave them any chance. Perry stayed in his wolf form, moving betw...
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“Radio Mette, tell her there’s an attack incoming,” said Perry.
The dragon went for Perry, uncontrolled rage in a body the size of a freight train, and Perry dropped to the grou...
2024-01-03 07:20:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm hoping that I'm back on the regular posting schedule now, feels like my brain is doing better with the concept of writing words, and the holiday obligations are mostly concluded. Apologies again.<...
2023-12-28 21:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostLate chapter, sorry, but not as late as last chapter, which does mean that we're in some sense moving in the right direction. There's a good chance that the next chapter is also late, and ...
2023-12-20 09:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe schedule does appear to be slipping. Sorry. :(
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Perry flew through space, toward the dragon, which was receding into the distance.
“Figure out his top speed,”...
2023-12-17 03:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, definitely missed a chapter last week. I went to the doctor and got some shots, which made me feel pretty sick for a day and a half, but I had this delusion that I was somehow goi...
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After half a day of having a radio link, one thing was clear: Jeff really, really liked to talk.
“So, here’s the thing,” said Jeff. “I lied about killing everyone....
2023-12-05 21:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostMy ambition for this November was to do a "double" National Novel Writing Month, with 50,000 for Thresholder and another 50,000 for Doomsday Pivot!, a system apocalypse type story. This is just an update on how that went, in case you're curious.
For Thresholder, I assume no one noticed. There were some great chapters in November, in my opinion, and the final word count was 53,733. Nothing really to talk about there. This covers everything from the final part of the fight with Natalka to present.
For
Note: Last chapter, 84, had a slight change to the ending, some of which is moved here and expanded. I think I was trying to do too much at the end of the chapter and should have just made...
2023-12-01 05:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostApologies again for the late chapter, I'm really going to try not to make this a regular occurrence, but the root cause was the Thanksgiving holiday, and thankfully there are no major holiday...
2023-11-28 06:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the late and delayed chapter, Thursday was American Thanksgiving, and I had fully intended to get the chapter totally finished to be posted in the morning before I was fully ...
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The world I was from, they didn’t really have prisons. They had jails, and I had ended up in those a time or two, usually because I was drunk. A jail is a place you s...
2023-11-21 04:52:57 +0000 UTC View PostThese are my favorite chapters of Thresholder to write, and always feel like a reprieve of sorts. This one is 8K words, which about twice as long as a chapter would be, but I don'...
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