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    Morning
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    The next few days were a slow, agonizing descent into a suffocating dark. The physical bruises on Jonas's face began to heal with the stubborn, resilient efficiency of a body accustomed to violence, the swollen, mottled purple flesh turning a sickly, jaundiced yellow-green across his cheekbone and jaw. But the psychological wounds were deepening, festering in the quiet damp of the boarding house room. He stopped going out to the streets. He stopped checking the window. He barely ate the mea
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    110 years of blockage has to go somewhere
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    A lot of dysentery in that era. Cholera as well.
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    Jonas has been through hell. Culloden followed by his imprisonment and subsequent commitment to Bedlam. The beating served to put him right back into his trauma. The fortunate thing is that he has someone who loves him this time. Who isn't about to let him down.
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    Melvin definitely takes after his dad rather than his mom.
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    Hollis woke to the sharp, distinct, utterly infuriating sound of heavy-gauge industrial plastic crinkling beneath his weight, accompanied immediately by the agonizing, rhythmic, blinding pounding of his own skull. He didn't open his eyes at first. He simply lay there in the absolute dark of his own fractured consciousness, his breathing shallow, tight, and erratic, desperately trying to piece together the violently fragmented puzzle of the last hour. He remembered the deafening, ozone-scen
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    Funnilly, while researching on this one (reading some of the literature written by actual highwaymen circa 1650.) I had an idea for Darien Haskall and the second heir to the Silver Boar book (which suffers similar pacing issues to this one) and might *might* have cracked where I was going wrong (as these two books were written at or around the same time) So Let me perculate on my mistakes. (I think it had something to do with going from a highly structured war epic (the Crusades) into something a bit more traditional and I needed to slow down.
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    I am working hard on this story. My initial draft suffered massively from pacing issues. I am slowing down, examining the impact of things, and writing a lot of new material to set this story into a much stronger work
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    That's one way to leave the Army Will is now part of their world
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    The pattern held for six weeks. Six weeks of Jonas bleeding the streets, and Edward bleeding the tables. Six weeks of coming home to the damp, suffocating room at Mrs. Higgins’s boarding house, stripping off the stink of the London night, splitting the money, and counting the silver into the three battered tin cans. It was a rhythm built on exhaustion, necessity, and a quiet, terrifying desperation. Every morning, they woke with the taste of coal smoke and fear in their mouths. Every night
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    As always, as a writer, I am always so happy to see that people read and enjoy these stories. Thank you so much
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    I mean Karen's still Captain of the Texas... should show how stable it all is.
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    The Search for Tweek begins
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    The end of the universe did not begin with a warning. It began with an experiment. The Zodiac was cruising through an uncharted system on the outer margins of the Othari Sector. It was a routine survey. A star. A handful of planets. Nothing special. Nothing that would have drawn attention in a more populated region of space. But out here, on the edge of the known, everything was new. Everything was worth documenting. Captain Hollis sat in the center seat, nursing a mug of terri
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    It helps that they have found a reason in each other.
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    Wonder what Eddie wants Jonas to focus on.
  20. Topher Lydon
    Good Morning Donuts
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    The morning air in the room was bitterly cold, thick with the smell of damp plaster and the lingering tang of sea coal from the street outside. Jonas was awake long before the sickly, yellow dawn crept through the single, grime-caked window. He sat on the edge of the narrow cot, lacing his boots with quiet, mechanical precision. Beside him, Edward was finally asleep. It was a restless, twitching sleep, the gentleman’s face pale and drawn, his brow furrowed as if the merchant’s terrified ey
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    Poor Mikkel was out fought, out classed, and out strategized by the Vex-lings. He was lucky to save his protein powder, Byk would have killed him if he lost that. Not that Liam cares.
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    Babies!
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    The retrofitted storage bay deep in the lower decks of the USS Zodiac was sweltering. Lieutenant Vasquez and Chief Engineer Byk had explicitly bypassed the ship’s primary environmental controls to pump excess thermal exhaust and hyper-humidified vapor directly into the room, creating an atmosphere that felt like a tropical greenhouse wrapped in a sauna. Condensation dripped slowly from the exposed overhead conduits, pooling on the grated deck plates. In the center of the heavy, suffocating
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