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September 21, 2025
Patreon Microfiction: I Have Fangs And Cannot Feed.
“I Have Fangs And Cannot Feed.” One piece of microfiction! One! Ha! Ha! Ha!
09/21/2025 Snippet, BRAVING THE MALSTORM.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you. I forgot the damned thing was flying! Well, easily fixed.
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I involuntarily winced when I heard the double snap! of the rampager’s main wings, and its ponderous flight suddenly turned into a ponderous crash. Hell, the monster bounced, twice, before it slammed into a storefront. That made me wince again, before I started coughing from the new dust. Fighting monsters in built-up areas is bad.
Roger tried peering at the dust cloud. “Can’t hope that put it down, right?” he asked. “Or is part of the superstition against assuming the best?”
I shook my head. “You always get to hope. But… yeah. There it is.” ‘There’ was in the middle of the dust, which meant less to me than it would to Roger, so I helpfully pointed. “It’s banged up, but we probably knocked off most of the pieces that would pop off anyway. Good news is, it’s coming after us instead of the town.”
“Also the bad news,” Zeke said. “Oh, well, we wanted it over here anyway.”
“Yeah.” Roger laughed, so: points to him. “Guess we’re getting our wish.”
September 20, 2025
‘Peggy Sue.’
Peggy Sue, Buddy Holly
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Had some sad news today.
A friend passed suddenly. Kind of threw the rest of the day into a holding pattern until we could find out more details. So if I sound off, that’s why.
09/20/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOSTS.
First aid! They’re not going to forget basic stuff after an apocalypse, sorry.
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“So much for keeping quiet,” Nat observed as he pulled Oxman to his feet. “You still in there, Tom?”
“…What? My name’s Oxman,” Oxman slurred. “Oxman Granger. Peaceful guy, if you’re peaceful back… wait, you know that. Why was I on the ground? Something kick me?”
“Yeah,” Nat replied. “The pull-axe you grabbed. Guess it was First Age-enchanted after all.”
Oxman shook himself, then gingerly felt his head. “I feel like I was picked up, and thrown. That about right?”
“Got it in one. At least five feet, before the floor broke your fall. Lemme see your eyes.”
“I haven’t been taken over, Nat.”
“Yeah, but you might be concussed.”
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Book of the Week: The Summer War.
How odd. I could have sworn that I had pre-ordered Naomi Novik’s The Summer War already. After all, it’s a Naomi Novik novella. Perhaps the original order didn’t go through?
Oh, well. Fixed.
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The ‘Innnteresting’ MR K trailer.
MR K gives me some The King In Yellow vibes. Or possibly Fear Itself. It’ll depend on how much blood there is in the actual film. At any rate, I like the aesthetic. Good luck finding it, though…
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September 19, 2025
‘Big Balls.’
Big Balls, AC/DC
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*Another* day that got bogged down.
I need to do something about this. It is, as they say, not sustainable. I just don’t know if it’ll involve deleting half my desktop, or taking a proper vacation for one.
My table at RisuCon!
Information is now available. RisuCon is in a few weeks, and after that is Doxacon, and then I’m done for a bit. It’s been a pretty good convention schedule this year, all in all. One dud, and one circumstances-beyond-my-control, but the others did some decent business. Anyway, come by on October 4th!
Moe Lane
PS: …Or buy them now. Games, too.
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