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Ten short stories that take place between the end of Painted Devils and the beginning of Holy Terrors.
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19 Jun 2025
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Tim and Sasha take the job because it's a simple one: escort shy, nervous, wide-eyed newbie cleric Martin Blackwood to the holiest city in the world. They also take it because the chance to skip town and dodge the trouble they've gotten into is too good to pass up.
But there's more to a journey across continents than just keeping watch for bandits, especially after they pick up a cagey warlock tied to an all-seeing fear god. Mysterious encounters pile up. Danger mounts.
Sometimes, in spite of your best efforts, trouble finds you.
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09 Apr 2025
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Angus had been interested for the free meal. Ever since his grandpa died and he ran off on his own, food was a little hard to come by. He was instantly enraptured by the fantastic displays of magic the elf chef had put on display though, and on top of that the food had been fantastic
It became all too clear all too quickly that something had gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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As he sped away from Glamour Springs, all Taako could think about was how wrong everything had gone. He hadn't meant to do that. Fuck, he hadn't meant to kill all of those people. So when he found one of the members of the audience hidden away in the back of his stagecoach, there was only one thing he could think to do.
There was no fucking way he was going to let this kid die.
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05 Sep 2024
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"I find myself wondering, sweet reader, when exactly someone will take a shovel to the back of this racist statue's metal head and begin dismantling our university’s scandalous love affair with the most problematic donors they could possibly find. I’m looking at you, President Zarkon, kindly remove your hand from the Republican Party’s dick. This is a liberal arts college for God’s sake."
When Galra University's Tumblr page, meant for football game updates and pleads for attendees for club meetings, is plagued by a mysterious writer determined to eviscerate every toxic part of the college, Lance is intrigued. When he becomes a leading character in the anonymous letters, well, he gets a little more curious. Lance becomes determined to unveil the writer and find out a) what is his problem exactly and b) does he really think Lance's eyes are that blue?
A tale in which Lance is oblivious and pining for the hot nerd in the back of his Greek mythology class, Keith can wield a pen with deadly cruelty, and you, dear readers, suffer from the pains of dramatic irony.
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- Part 1 of The Dear Reader-Verse
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03 Apr 2024
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Jonathan Sims is a first time English professor at a lower tier university in London who absolutely hates poetry. Unfortunately, he has been put in charge of a poetry class. Despite his reluctance, he vows to make this the most comprehensive poetry class he can. His students will EARN their grades, and he will accept nothing less than perfect form! Half rhymes get half marks!
Martin Blackwood is a former employee of a tea shop who adores poetry. After spending several years working part time jobs to support himself and his ailing mother, he has managed to scrap together enough funds and a high school equivalency diploma so that he can take some courses and get a job where he won't have to be on his feet all day. Delighted to have room in his schedule for one elective, he naturally pursues a poetry class. Unfortunately, his new professor hates the subject. And he seems to hate Martin, too.
Then Tim decides to get the whole class to write increasingly sappy love poetry about their professor to hand in as assignments for a prank and despite refusing to take part, somehow this still makes things worse for Martin specifically.
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22 Apr 2022