Waiting For The Bus
Waiting for the bus
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Chapter 8 of Donald of Mars is now live.
I have the next installment of Donald of Mars now available on Kindle Vella and Patreon Donald has taken a job fixing the aquaponics based environmental system of a couple of adult film actress that didn’t take the time to keep it up.
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Rich Kids succeeded more often than poor, but why
There is very little debate that a rich kid chances of success are hugly greater than a poor kid. But the why and that and what to do about it are in question.
Can We Break the Universe? What does that imply?
The assumption that with enough that with high enough technology, it is possible to break the universe leads to many interesting conclusions. It almost eliminates the possibility of an older, more powerful race, except under certain circumstances. Quite simply if you can break the universe, there is no way to prevent people who would do so from figuring out how to. It will take time, but it will…
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Kerric the Mercenary: Episode 7, Run to DeSon
Kerric and his Warcat took the lead. At the edge of DarkGate, he turned Akrus off the road and headed due west. The moment they made it to those dark woods, he said, “Run,” and all Akrus’s anger vanished. He was off as if shot from an arrow.
At home, north of the Black Sand, running was dangerous. There, except for hunting sprints, if he ran, it was in fear, and he was running for his life. It wasn’t until Kerric brought him south of the Black Sand that his war cat had a chance to run full out without fear. Now, only mating and hunting brought his Warcat more pleasure. It was a pleasure Akrus rarely got to indulge in and the perfect reward for being dragged out of his rest.
Like the larger breed of Warcats in the north, the ones his men rode were built for running for days despite that not being a good idea in the north. Except the Tolar, nothing in the south could escape them over the long run, and very few on the short. Only experts here would pick up that this wasn’t the breed you found in the far south in the forest bordering the frozen waste. Those were a patchwork brown, instead of dark brown with black stripes on their hind quarter, and only three-quarters the size of the Warcats Kerric’s men rode. Nor were they as fast or have the endurance of this northern breed.
Yet those southern beasts stilled killed more of their own riders than the northern ones did, making seeing a rider a very rare occurrence in the far south, and nearly legendary this far away from that icy waste. That was, until Kerric, and his band arrived.
Kerric shifted his weight. With a snort, Akrus stopped trying to outrun the others, but kept his pace high enough to make them work at keeping up. They might have longer legs, but Akrus had more muscle. That meant more speed in a run among Warcats.
They hit the edge of the gorge and Akrus leaped from the side to the branches of those massive trees. The others followed. Riding the treetops might be common in the jungles north of the Black Sand but was unheard of here. That shortcut across the gorge instead of around it, as all others had to travel, was why his men would get there before the sun came up, despite having to saddle them before riding out.
Akrus leaped to the next tree, and then the next. Even in the dark, Warcats never jumped to a branch that can’t whole their weight, though sometimes, they bend more than their riders anticipate. That bending and springing back is what the Warcats used to move forward with such speed. It took all the rider’s concentration to stay in those saddles and not one of them could have done so the way Kerric did, without the thigh straps. That springing motion was why in the trees, Warcats move only a little slower than their ground eating normal pace.
Kerric spared enough attention from his own ride to see all of his men having a harder time of it than they should. It was one more sign that they had lost too much of their edge. The gorge was deep and wide, but not so much so that those Warcats could not cross it in half the night.
With well over a candle mark before even the false dawn, his men were on the road to the main keep of DeSon, something that would have been a four-day trip by the road using caravan wagons.
Tantos came out of the woods as they moved closer to the keep. “I found Corman camped on a woodcutter’s track nearing the Aring-DarkGate Road. He’s taking his time and will hit that road early morning tomorrow. If he pushes it, he could make Aring by late night, but more likely is planning another night on the road.”
Kerric nodded and looked over the lands of his prospective employer.
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A Fall of Ashes: Chapter VI, Sorceress now available
Now in her early twenties, Ashes has become comfortable as an apprentice studying healing, when her mistress sends her on an errand in a far distant town. Little does she realize it is a one-way trip and she will lose everything but what she is carrying. She is a sorceress and has her freedom now, but at a terrible cost. Read chapter IV of A Fall of Ashes, Sorceress, on Kindle Vella or…
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Living on Mars. IT Won't be Like the Movies
When people think of a big colony on mars. Sterile environments like seen in TV series such as space 1999 and many others come to mind. It is unlikely to be that way. People there are going to be critically short nearly every fiber, oil, and other chemical bio mass produced. to even make a noticeable dent in that shortage plant are going to be in every cranny you can put them. There will be other effect.
Read Three Story for Free
I currently have up, or I am posting three different stories for you to read free of charge. These stories are on Patreon, Substack and Ream Stories free of charge, so use whichever you prefer. Patreon Substack Ream Stories The first story, I Took a Walk, is up all three places in its entirety. It is a short novella bordering on a short story. I broke it into twelve short episodes and…
Merry Christmas
Here is an old story from when I was just learning how to tell stories, (but thought I knew what I was doing, and didn’t understand why I could not sell it). I dug it out, fixed the bad grammar mistakes but otherwise left it as is. It is free and has under 1000 words all as a single episode on Kindle Vella. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0CPSPTY62
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I Took a Walk: 4 Episodes Up
The fourth episode of my newest story I Took a Walk on Kindle Vella is now live. Join Jimmy as he finds out sometimes easy money isn’t so easy.
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Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available
Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available
Join Don as he joins the caravan climbing Red Mountain to inspect the barony King Peter granted him.
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