Adam Andrews Johnson

The death in this chapter is all in the immediate past, but someone is going to die in the next chapter, and then our heroes will clash with the godstrolls... And up next... Godstroll mating! 😂 (just wait haha my editor is sending me the next chapters tomorrow)

You may be onto something 😉

The starship Garnet Star and the safe house outside of Glinterdale were both sealed up tight. Lyoth, Stawren, and Captain Suoki were on the Galaxy Surfer in orbit above a planet Neptithia had provided on a list of eight locations where godstrolls were recently seen. “This is the only inhabited planet in the Losinioth Galaxy’s primary system,” Captain Suoki informed the other two. “I spent some time here, but that was a long time ago. The city of Olgron is below us, and according to Neptit

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I kind of love that they got so distracted by the weird godstroll details that they totally forgot to ask!

Stawren, Lyoth, and Captain Suoki were in the safe house just outside the city limits of Glinterdale. It was night. “What happened ten years ago?” Stawren asked the men. “It was so tragic,” Captain Suoki replied. “The Voscijas had been oppressed for generations. Something like one-hundred-fifty years ago, their people were conquered and made to live as subjects under the Striliox Empire. When the man who is currently emperor took the throne of Striliox, one of his first orders was to w

The beautiful men outside of Pickle’s Place whooped and hollered at seeing the young bounty hunter and older woman together. Pickle was walking with Quigley on the street back from the smoke house, arm in arm beneath the sunshine. At the front entrance, she kissed the back of his hand, and entered. Quigley remained outside, and he smiled at all the compliments he received from the prostitutes. “On a date with mother, I see, how impressive!” “Our little boy’s becoming a man!” “

On the third floor of Pickle’s Place, the woman who called herself Pickle was in her quiet office going over her financials, when there was a knock on the door. She looked up and called out, “Enter.” One of the club’s bouncers stuck his head in and grunted, “Someone here to see you, miss.” “Send them in.” A very young man entered, and the bouncer closed the door again. “What’s your name?” Pickle asked. Her clever eyes moved over him, assessing every inch of the stranger.

I love that! 😍 I used to read the lyric booklets from every new CD while listening to the album for the first time, and it used to bum me out if a band didn't include lyrics hahaha

Long before becoming a bounty hunter, when Quigley was a youth, he was enamored by the men and women he watched visit a bar called the Holy Fount in his hometown. It was not a bar for being casual and relaxing; it was a bounty hunter haunt and a place where they acquired their assignments. From time to time in those early years, young Quigley saw a few hunters bring their frightening chained quarries into the Holy Fount, and it excited him. After a growth spurt at the age of thirteen, Quig

Quigley was alone in the Burn Throne’s cockpit. Finnow and Riah were asleep together in the back of the ship as it rocketed through hyperspace. The vessel’s cavitation engine timer was counting down, and there was less than an hour of flight time before they would arrive in Boullia Bay. In the peaceful moment by himself, Quigley’s thoughts spun with everything that had happened. What started for him as a fairly routine hunt had spiraled into his family’s abduction by Fonith, before they we

Lyoth and Stawren boarded the Galaxy Surfer again and launched it from Jitha. Once above the atmosphere, Lyoth input a specific location into the navigational computer, and Stawren activated the cavitation engine. The starship disappeared into the void. “On to the eighth location?” she asked. “Indeed we are. Let’s call Suoki and let him know we’ll be there soon.” He initiated the connection but got no answer. “Oh well, I picked this particular safe-house because it’s not too far fro

THANK YOUUU! that actually means so much to me 💀❣️ the lyrics in all my books are from songs i wrote in the past and changed slightly to fit in these stories

Over the course of the following hour and a half, the four Voscija boys tried to teach Captain Suoki how to play Catch the Deathling Stars. That proved to be very challenging. The game was very confusing to the captain. “How did I end up with eight cards?” he asked at one point. “You must’ve forgot to discard,” Tahli replied. “And what round are we on again? Do these three cards with the double swords win me any points?” He turned them to face the boys who scoffed and huffed at

The swashing of buckles is in their recent pasts.

The hinges of the door that led into the safe house creaked as Captain Suoki shoved his way into the old building. He looked around. “You’re not what you used to be,” he said to the room. Dust coated every surface, and cobwebs hung like the remnants of decorations from some long-forgotten holiday. “Let’s see if there’s any preserved food in this place,” the captain said to himself, “or am I going to need to head into town? The afternoon is getting late.” He groaned when he opened the pant

The Galaxy Surfer was docked at the Jitha spaceport of Carthal, and Stawren and Lyoth were leading Nunta and her mother to the village of Carthal-4. Lyoth had found information about multiple thought-rehabilitation centers that specialized in re-orienting cultish ideals. He selected one that focused on helping people who had been part of highly spiritualized groups. Stawren checked her device. “It’s just this way.” Carthal-prime itself was not all that different from other docking

Nunta was staring at the doorframe where Stawren had just exited, and her mouth was hanging open. “Want to help me pack a bag?” Lyoth offered gently. “We have some things for you.” She turned to him with her jaw still down, and she nodded. “Okay, here you go. Hold this open.” He handed her a large duffle and turned to one of the storage compartments. “We’ve got some clothes for you. And as far as food, I know they’re not much, but here are three ration packs. I can give you s

After Lyoth and Nunta finished eating their ham and eggs, the two of them headed toward the Galaxy Surfer’s lounge. “There’s no tronidra on this ship,” Lyoth stated, “but would you like a fermented iceginger brew? They’re quite nice, zingy!” She furrowed her brow at him but nodded. Nunta’s belly was full for the first time in years, before the nineteen year old even became a teenager, and her mind was racing. The food Lyoth made brought up confusing memories for Nunta of Alihte feedin

With the door locked behind Lyoth, Nunta sat down in a chair and pulled her knees to her chest. She wrapped her arms around her legs and stared out the window at the star-speckled blackness of space. Lyoth seated himself on the floor against the far wall across from her. “I’m sorry for taking you,” he said gently. “I realize now that it was wrong of us to take you away from the Entry of Ecstasy. I’m Lyoth.” Nunta did not look at him. “You were eleven?” Lyoth asked. She d

“Our home!” Finnow cried out in dismay. Quigley was in shock and he did not say a word. Riah was watching her parents from the doorframe of the Burn Throne’s bridge. The ship was in orbit above the planet Karthial, and the devastation wrought by the destroyer End Vision was below them. “They killed everyone!” Finnow continued. “What are we supposed to do now?” Her husband remained silent. “Everyone’s dead,” she reiterated. “What are we going to do? Should we g

“Bring me back to Mama goddess!” Nunta shrieked at her mother. The goutria blood had worn off, and the two women were alone in the Galaxy Surfer’s kitchen. Alihte tried to take her daughter’s hand. “Don’t touch me!” Nunta screamed. “Mama goddess banished you from the Entry of Ecstasy; I don’t want you contaminating me!” “Nunta, please,” Alihte begged, but her daughter was incensed. She slapped her mother’s hand. “No! You’ve fallen back to the third dimension, and I don’

Chapter 34 is coming! My editor had some great recommendations, and I wanted to make those changes before uploading it here 😍

While Quigley’s ship was being repaired on Lady Talula’s low-orbit space station, Captain Suoki and the Lady talked. After hearing his story, she granted him permission to borrow one of her two ships in order to meet Lyoth and Stawren at the hidden safe house. Little Riah whined to her parents about Captain Suoki not leaving with them to be dropped off in Boullia Bay, even though that had been the plan, and he promised to meet up with them another time. Quigley launched the Burn Throne, and a mo

wow, thank you so much for saying that 😭 knowing that people are reading my books just makes my little heart explode! once a month i do this rad event called the Market for the Strange 💀 it's got a kind of a rainbowy/goth vibe 🌈 and it's super queer! they had a drag show right in the middle of the market last month 💃 i just love chatting with people about my books! i did a smaller market yesterday and a bunch of vendors wanted to trade me their products for my books, which hasn't happened much for me, but it was so fun to swap our creative stuff 💖 i got art, a witchy hat, magnet horns for attaching to the witchy hat, a bunch of handmade truffles which were so freaking mmmm, this crazy clear resin tea light holder with foraged plants actually in the resin... i gave out a bunch of copies of my books and came home with all sorts of goodies!