Here’s the permanent links to every chapter I publish on here, for your literary enjoyment.
Updated Monday and Friday.
By the end of the year I’m either going to be very good at this, or insane. Have fun with me finding out which!
NECROPOLIS (25 Dec 2021 – 7 Jan 2022)
The Static: vast, unexplored, unmappable. Navigation impossible for the layperson. When a civilian from outside the Static hires her for a fraught rescue mission, guide Apollo Ridley will have to use all her skills to get out alive…
THE CATACOMBS OF CTHON (10 – 21 Jan)
Victrix Lament is one of the Empire’s most powerful psychic agents. When a backwater planet starts missing tithes, she finds herself pulled into a war that has implications beyond her imagination…
THE PIT DOGS (24 Jan – 4 Feb)
A fighter; a killer. The same, yet distinct. But when a sadistic master takes possession of the famed ludus, the Valley of Gold, fighters must once again learn to kill…
THE WAR MACHINE (7 – 18 Feb)
Nobody knows her real name. But when the master thief known as Whisper comes to town, those in the know guard their valuables closely. The monk-engineers of the Arraxas Armoury guard them more closely than most. But it won’t be enough…
THE BLACK GATEWAY (21 Feb – 4 March)
A man, murdered. An assassin with otherworldly powers. And in the middle of it all, Apollo Ridley. What is the secret of the golden insignia? What is coming through the Black Gateway?
THE DEADMAN’S FINGER (7 -18 March)
Evidence is rarely so concrete. But how can you follow evidence when it leads you down a road you know to be impossible?
A TWISTED GAME OF CAT AND CAT (21 March – 1 April)
A brilliant assassin takes on a contract to kill an eccentric billionaire, but finds things rapidly spiralling out of his control when a woman enters the equation…
THEY WORSHIP IT (4 – 15 April)
In the endless ocean of the Static, a raider ship finds itself under attack from an impossible foe from beneath the waves.
MESSAGE INTERCEPT (18 – 29 April)
An archaeological dig on an alien world turns sinister when an ancient pit is uncovered.
SEE YOU AROUND, VICTRIX LAMENT (2-13 May)
On a routine mission, Victrix Lament of the Imperial Agency finds more than she bargained for – an enemy capable of meeting her on the battleground of the mind…
THE WAVE (16-27 May)
The secret to interdimensional travel – a brilliant scientist finds herself trapped by an army of herself in an endless facility. Can she escape? Will she let herself?
THE FOOL’S BLADE (30 May – 10 June)
Agony Ridge – wracked by corruption. Can a single blade put an end to the reign of the cruel Lord Band? Without spilling a drop of blood?
FOUR REPORTS ON THE INCIDENT IN THE UNMAPPABLE REGION
Tracking a notorious renegade, Imperial forces converge on a leisure cruiser in deep space. Any of the passengers could be their woman – but which?
THE MYSTERY MAN FROM DYM RIVER
A pit fighter, augmented by sanctified cybernetics, plots his revenge against the criminal who wronged him.
THE SON OF THE MAD KING
A mage-knight sent to retrieve a rare bloom. A Prince-Regent bent on preserving it. In the forest, a creeping doom…
CANDLE OF CHAOS
On the frontiers of the Static, the townsfolk eke out a living. When invaders from the Dark Lands threaten, they must band together to protect what little civilisation they have left.
MAYBE’S AS GOOD AS YOU GET
In a small town, nowhere, a gambler arrives. It doesn’t take long before everything implodes.
THE COCA-COLA ENFORCEMENT SQUAD
Four incidents from the real case files of the Coca-Cola Enforcement Squad – dedicated to preserving Brand Integrity with lethal force if necessary.
YELLOW TEETH
A simple job gone horribly wrong. Two brothers alike in indignity. What’s in a smile?
THE LABYRINTH AND MIRACLE
The hospitality of the Monastery of the Silent God leaves much to be desired. A warrior finds herself trapped in an insane maze, desperately clawing her way back to reality.
THE MURDER GAME
A dinner party with a sick twist – not everybody goes home alive!
DEATH TO THE EMPIRE!
A soldier against the Imperial forces finds that there is more to the feared Agency than is publically known, and faces off against the most powerful of all the Agents, Victrix Lament.
BREAK YOUR NECK
In the woods, a wanted criminal evades the law. He can’t evade the bounty-tracker Malison Waldo. Nobody does.
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