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Chapter 17: The Wages of Sin
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 17: The Wages of Sin
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The email arrived at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday morning, and by 6:48, the Toronto legal world had been turned upside down. Will Carter read it standing in his kitchen, coffee mug halfway to his lips, his laptop glowing in the grey pre-dawn light. The subject line was innocuous— Urgent: Torys LLP—Administration Notice or Emergency: Client Update—Torys LLP—but the body was a bomb wrapped in corporate legalese. Effective immediately, Torys LLP has voluntarily entered administration following
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It's nothing bad, Just a stubborn pair of chapters that I reread and realized didn't work, didn't serve the plot and slowed everything down. So I reworked them into two chapters that did... just getting Will's temper right took some doing. He so rarely gets furious I needed a long time to try things till I got him the way I like him.
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wait, did this go out a day early, I swear it wasn't me that did it this time awwww @drpaladin is so gonna laugh at me.
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Cliche for a reason I dunno, was thinking about Hugo and wanted to write
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The resonance chamber hummed with the sound of something waking up. Flynn sat in the chair—the throne, the trap, the thing Frank had died warning him about—and felt the copper coils beneath the concrete floor begin to pulse. The runes carved into the walls flickered from dormant grey to hungry amber, one by one, in a sequence that looked almost organic. Like veins filling with blood. Like a heart beginning to beat. He couldn't move. The sedatives Dr. Varma had pushed into his arm wer
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Another of my Thursday Shorts I need a palate cleanser after a particularly stubborn day of wrestling with difficult chapters of the Carter book. Something simple, silly, and nice.
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Two high school enemies—a lanky anxious nerd and a brooding bully—end up stuck together working the closing shift at a dead-end grocery store. As summer bleeds away and college looms, they discover the social hierarchy means nothing when you're both scraping gum off linoleum. But when a rainstorm strands them at the bully's rundown apartment, Chad discovers Jake's deepest secret: he's a massive closet geek with a decade of hidden longing. What starts as reluctant friendship becomes something far more complicated—and far more real—than either expected.
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The summer air in the grocery store always felt synthetic, a canned, frigid breeze that did nothing to cut the oppressive, heavy heat waiting just beyond the automatic sliding doors. Chad Boudreau stood at the end of register four, staring blankly as a conveyor belt of canned beans, generic pasta, and discounted cat food rolled toward him. He felt, as he often did, like a collection of spare parts haphazardly glued together. He was all elbows and knees, a gangling polecat of a teenager who had s
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I mean this one is a bit more... raunchy, than I usually go, so that's a bonus It's a lot of "Hardness, friction and rubbing"
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Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
That's the idea, what Merrick wants, why Tanaka is so intent to stop it, and why Andrew is there. The next chapter goes into the lengths the three players will go to, Gable, Merrick, and Tanaka to deal with this. -
um, it's about as detailed as I get I fear. I am not that... um... explicit.
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Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
This book has A LOT going on, I admit, I found it hard to balance every plot point at times. I do think it runs a little long on the Jason plot in places, and the Will/Andrew will they won't that can dance a little on a loop. Funny I am rewriting several chapters from this point onwards to tighten things up. Merrick will get his turn, he's got a chapter of his own coming up. -
15 The sound was wet, rhythmic, and deeply, viscerally disturbing. It was a slow, tearing schhhk-rip followed by a heavy, satisfied snorting noise. Andy Cooper, formerly the Scourge of the Carpathians and currently a deeply exhausted suburban boyfriend, slowly opened his eyes in the dimly lit confines of the garage. For a fraction of a second, his three-hundred-year-old brain struggled to parse his surroundings. He was lying on the narrow, canvas camping cot Art Cooper had provi
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Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Peter's got this. Trust the Peter... believe in the Peter... he's short, he's got fists... and Marcus is about to run head first into a yellow belt, who is dangerous, damnit! -
Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
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Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 16: The Prodigal’s Journey
We all know Peter loves this thing good morning -
The offer letter sat on Andrew's kitchen table for three days. He'd come home Tuesday night to find the envelope waiting in his mailbox—heavy cream stock, the Gable Strathmore logo embossed in the corner, his name in calligraphy that probably cost more than his weekly grocery budget. He'd opened it standing up, read it standing up, set it down standing up, and then sat down very slowly, like a man whose legs had just remembered they were supposed to hold him. Associate. Corporate Lit
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The great Squirrel Uprising. With additional assistance from the Greater Socialist Republic of Rabbit
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Everyone has to learn to grow up eventually
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Well let me reframe, five that Andy knows about. In the Anne Rice books, the number is around there
