Topher Lydon
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Good morning folks
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The King's pavilion smelled of wet wool, burning tallow, and desperation. Darien had been standing over the campaign map for three hours, watching the markers that represented foraging parties and scout patrols and supply trains crawl across the worn leather, and he had come to a terrible realization: he was not a commander. He was a clerk with a sword. "The Count of Toulouse requests permission to move his camp closer to the river," said a priest whose name Darien had already
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Chief Security officer, Wielder of the Spoon and Doctor of Chaos
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Gremlin is going to baby sit one of them, that's for sure.
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Now Mickey just needs to find a baby sitter...
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I love Mickey, he's not dumb, he just... yeah... ok so maybe he's a little dumb.
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Oh and now you know why *that* storage closet. Isaiah is definitely the smarter of the two.
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The Vega Vixen 3, or as Dimitri thinks of it: Home.
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Domesticating the Chaos (Or, How to Acquire a Gremlin, a Son, and a Boyfriend in Six Days) The Vega Vixen III had been in transit for approximately fourteen hours when Mickey heard the giggling. Not the Gremlin's giggling—that was a constant background noise, like the hum of the reactor or the drip of a leaky pipe. This was different. This was higher, softer, punctuated by whispers and the rustle of fabric. This was the giggling of a nine-year-old boy who thought he was bein
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So my Brother-in-law would disappear every morning and return with breakfast. Lovely spiced meat and rice that I would eat before going off to the University I was teaching at. (This was Cambodia) This went on for months. One day my sister was up,almost unheard of before noon, anyway she was sitting with her coffee watching me eating. She asked her husband what I was eating... he explained he bought it from next door... The look of horror on her face, when she told us to stop eating it... Confused, I asked why... Her reply was, "You know all those dog sounds from next door every night?" my stomach started to do that plummet thing. "Oh no..." "Those aren't pet dogs." Yep, some "Mystery Meat" you don't ever want to know about.
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Libbet, Julian's wife, lesbian, handy with a knife Lloyd gives her... and adamant that Julian's dad needs to be a few inches shorter and I don't mean in height, if you catch the meaning.
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Darien isn't father of the year... yet.
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From what I was reading, it very much was. They had trenches, they had mud, and they had no supplies. It was very Verdun.
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Screw Julian's dad. Good morning
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The rain had been falling for seventeen days. Julian had counted. He had counted the days, the hours, the minutes between the moments when the sky lightened from black to gray and then back to black again. He had counted the rats that Bran dragged into the tent, the buckets of water that leaked through the sagging canvas, the men who coughed themselves hoarse in the night and did not wake in the morning. He had counted everything except the days until the siege would end, because no one kn
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Every boy needs a roommate
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The closet is bigger and you will see why that closet in particular
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The Vega Vixen is now available in epub: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GZFF8NZ3
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The shower on the VV3 is a highly entertaining recurring joke, the thing never works right... some might think Hughie is doing it on purpose
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I finished this book today. Clocking in at 19 chapters 100000 words. I will, as usual, make the epub available for those that want it. I am already contemplating a sequel that would be Dimitri Ryder and his turn at the wheel of things with his Gremlin co-pilot. The only issue with that is it would put it somewhere right near the end of the Falcon Banner book series timeline wise, so I have to avoid mention of the war beyond what is already known. Dimitri does, after all, have to meet Doctor Kyr, it's like a given. I am also considering, strongly, writing a blade-runner esque story about Constructs, and the Martian slave trade in artificial human beings. But that is still really early in concepts.
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Mickey does care about his kids, he just *strongly* believes they are better off without him in their lives. He's wrong, as he is about to learn
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He's a mess, being a dad at 14 will do that to some people. He's spent years running away from the responsibilities he never chose. Isaiah, as evidenced in this chapter, is encouraging Mickey to be a better father.
