Projects

  • “‘Your pouch of coins may be as large and hefty as my nutsack, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay me to work for you.’” Yup, we’re back on Serpent in a Cage excerpts to start out my check-ins. Gilferen really does get all the best lines. It’s been an interesting few days for…

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  • “‘I know,’ he said, and his acceptance earned him a kiss. She swooped in like a fresh breeze, the curtain of her dark hair falling over his as her lips touch his. It was a slow, meaningful kiss, all pressure and longing and hunger, and Silver slid his arm around her slender waist because it…

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  • “Time is truly a strange thing. The Ana’aek believe it to be a completely unless thing (more or less), a complete construction of Human minds to make their lives more stressful. Most people believe that time in linear, that it moves forward, marches on, steady to the tick of a clock, but the Ana’aek claim…

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  • I have so much work to do today, and my coffee maker isn’t even working. I promised myself I would never do this, but I think a keysmash is in order: dsfkhsdlfkhsdklfhsldkfhsdklfhklsdhflskdhfklsdfhskdlfhlsdkf. There. I feel better. And the coffee machine might be working now, too, at least I hope so, and that it will work…

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  • “And she wondered, staring into the mirror at the woman she had become: How would her life had changed–how would the world’s life had changed–had she let Wayne fuck her brains out on the boat on the lake that day?” “Firestar” by Michael Flynn Reading a book that takes place in “the near future” is…

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  • “In the purple dawn, my body is transcendent. It moves with the unconscious grace of a lotus on the water. Though the morning is cool and the breeze quite sweet, my body is cover in a fine sheen of glistening sweat. Every movements is a smooth extension of myself, each step pushes me one bit…

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  • “I walked home. Rome, my city, which had been until then a never-failing solace, lay before me like a woman, secretive and beautiful, demanding and rewarding, eternally seductive. For the first time in my life, I refused to be seduced.” “The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery” by Lindsey Davis Once I finally managed…

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  • ”     The details of last night reformed themselves, building the scene again for him. Each dull pain reawakened as he revisited every blow, every smash, pain imbued into each muscle and bone in his body. It all started with an argument, a slammed door, Awngel’s dagger glare. And then there was Hederrick, the man from…

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  • “‘Then he lies,’ Thrawn returned coldly. ‘All men want power. And the more they have, the more they want.’” “Star Wars: Volume 1: Heir to the Empire” by Timothy Zahn I finally did it. I finally ventured into reading (and finishing!) a Star Wars book that wasn’t directly based on the original trilogy or written…

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  • Hooray! It’s here! It’s the new Round of A Round of Words in 80 Days! Oh, yesterday was also Independence Day, but….new Round!! (lol, priorities) I posted my goals a little bit ago, and I got an early start on them because my orderly brain demanded that starting on the 2nd would throw everything off,…

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