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Beginning the Mission's Second Phase
Perhaps it is the newfound optimism in my mission, or maybe it’s simply the medications from the enclave in this small lake, but for...
J. Joseph
Oct 7, 20228 min read
A Sentimental Catharsis
Sometimes, things just line up. And sometimes they don’t. This story ain’t over quite yet, but from all indications, it’s gonna end up...
J. Joseph
Sep 30, 20228 min read
The Buzzing, Pulsating Hum
I just need to take a moment to breathe. I can’t deal with, well, everything, right now. I turn off all the noises that have been humming...
J. Joseph
Sep 23, 20228 min read
The Rundown of Potential Mentees
“Do you think it will work, Therese?” Irene asks me. The question resonates in my mind. Slowly, I cock my head and raise an eyebrow ever...
J. Joseph
Sep 16, 20228 min read
Finding a Ship to Leave Aboard
Alessari hadn’t known about this place. Not personally, in any case. This has been her first time away from Ressyta in earnest. She had...
J. Joseph
Sep 9, 20228 min read
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
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