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Onto the Next Hunt
At another time, with other circumstances, I might have spent the effort going after the cowardly cannibal. His actions had been...
J. Joseph
Sep 2, 20228 min read
To Break the World
A couple of my friends and I are enjoying ourselves this evening. We already did our rounds for the day, and with the money from that, we...
J. Joseph
Aug 26, 20228 min read
One Last Return to Campus
The plane actually arrives early. By twelve minutes. Not sure why, we didn’t leave early, but I don’t mind. Not much anyways. Because...
J. Joseph
Aug 19, 20228 min read
Renalt Leads Denlo out of the City
Renalt returns to the tavern for their late afternoon, or early evening depending on the person telling time, meal. For the last day, he...
J. Joseph
Aug 12, 20228 min read
Rewriting Our Reality
I must admit, this was not quite what I expected. I mean, to be clear, the camp was easy enough to wade through silently. It also had...
J. Joseph
Aug 5, 20228 min read
Sasha Kovach: Our First Day
It was finally the day. I had been recruited out of a practically unknown fucking engineering program to this enormous office. I wasn’t...
J. Joseph
Jul 29, 20229 min read
Coffee, Feelings, and Insomnia
It’s different, ever since my parents moved us to the city. I suppose that’s what almost drowning does to your parents. Makes them...
J. Joseph
Jul 22, 20228 min read
Alina's First Principal Mysticists Convention
For the first time in the last three or four years, I’m doing almost exactly what my parents groomed me to do for all those years. Only...
J. Joseph
Jul 15, 20228 min read
Denlo Hiding in Irritea
The musician has his uses, Denlo supposes, the morning after they met. He doubts that the man can get Denlo out of much trouble, but the...
J. Joseph
Jul 8, 20228 min read
A Shipment through the City
People always used to muse about how much the world would change with the fall of civilization. Let me let you in on a little secret....
J. Joseph
Jul 1, 20228 min read
Fateless
There’s no such thing as fate. Trust me on this. If anyone would know, it’d be me. When I was ten, I stopped being ten. Minute to minute,...
J. Joseph
Jun 24, 20228 min read
The Plan and an Internship
I sigh as I settle into the train seat. When I first got to that Villa, I had a plan already. It was all lain out, cleanly and neatly. I...
J. Joseph
Jun 17, 20228 min read
Felazo's Return to Civilization
A day and a half. Felazo spends nearly two days traveling the circlet-current of the sea near the isle he just left. Normally, he would...
J. Joseph
Jun 10, 20228 min read
A Morning at the Beach
I had woken up far too early in the morning, just like I had most days since we got here. My body still wasn’t used to the new time zone....
J. Joseph
Jun 3, 20228 min read
However It Might Fall
There are two sides to every coin. The one you can see, and the one you can’t. Really, we only ever focus on the one side we can see....
J. Joseph
May 27, 20228 min read
Our Final End-Of-Year Evaluations
One thing I like about Sierra, she knows when she’s done an oopsy. After last year’s…I don’t want to say debacle, but debacle, she...
J. Joseph
May 20, 20228 min read
Hilan's Trek through Yolryta
Sister Hilan was heading inland, as she heard rumor of the treatment of peasantry in some of the farms far from foreign eyes. Well, that...
J. Joseph
May 13, 20228 min read
Dangers, Patterns, and Storytelling
After my eventual return to the jungle, I decide to wait for Jan’s faith to be rewarded before I return to his guesthouse. It has been...
J. Joseph
May 6, 20228 min read
The Perfect Painting
The brisk air settles around him, near windless, as Richard settles into his work area. Today is a painting day, everything else is set...
J. Joseph
Apr 29, 20228 min read
Pushing Back
At its heart, the world is not one of order. Chaos rules nature. The very laws of physics we define state this: the universe is always...
J. Joseph
Apr 22, 20228 min read
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