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A Particularly Trying Time

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THE BOSS: Alex.

ALEX: Hey Boss.

THE BOSS: In order to fulfill a contractual obligation, I am allowing a competitive rival to use our technical support division during a particularly trying time.

ALEX: Ah. OK. You owe a CEO a favor?

THE BOSS: No. One of his shoulder-demons.

ALEX: Do we get to know who we’re doing this for?

MONK: Alex, we’re suddenly being flooded...

A Remarkable Bird, the Norwegian Blue

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So the general consensus on Twitter is that Twitter is Dead.

I mean, it’s obviously not dead yet, because people are still on Twitter talking about The End of Twitter, but what they’re saying is “the asteroid is coming, it’s time to say goodbye.” It appears to have something to do with Elon Musk telling his Twitter employees they either had to commit to “hardcore work hours” or accept a three month severance package, and huge swaths of Twitter emplo...

A Rake by Starlight Podcast, Episode Six

Chapters 17-19

Grif and his crew just made the deal of a lifetime – potentially. But sometimes success attracts attention, and they’ve had a lot of success in the last year. Someone is about to make Grif an offer he can’t refuse.

A Rake by Starlight Podcast, Episode Five

Chapters 13-16

Grif and his crew appear to have survived their ordeal. While they wait for the universe to change its mind, they try to make the best of their situation by trying to lob off their new acquisition on someone who knows what to do with it.

(This podcast was actually published back in 2019, but for some reason I never got around to posting it here. Fixed!)

The Points Between: Chapter Nine

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The Chapel of Light

The motel room is clean, as far as Matthew can tell. That, along with a flat screen TV, is the extent of anything that could be called amenities. It doesn’t even have one of those single-serve coffee makers.

A box of half-eaten greasy pizza lies open on one of the room’s two twin beds, a coke sits open on the nightstand between them, perspiration collecting at its base. A w...

The Points Between: Chapter Eight

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Ghost Stories

Buck is in his mid-forties, but he’s in excellent shape, even for a man a decade younger—wide-shouldered, with only a trace of a gut, he sports a thick blond curly beard and a thick ponytail to match. He greets Matthew warmly.

“Nice to see you again.” Buck clasps Matthew’s arm and shakes his hand firmly. “Buck Gardener. You’re wearing my boy’s clothes.”

“Matthew Garret,” Matth...

The Points Between: Chapter Seven

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Daylight by Daylight

Matthew stares at the door as it shuts, the jingle of the bells fading away in the unusually silent room. “What’d he mean by that?”

Henry grins. “Off days? I hope this is an off day for you. Not sure how you lived this long if this kind of thing happens all the time.”

Matthew grimaces and runs a hand through still-damp hair. “This is definitely up there. No, I meant the...

Curveball Year Three: The Titan’s Shadow, eBook Out Now

It has taken far longer than I’d like (SEVEN YEARS???) but Curveball Year Three is finally available as an eBook!

Here are the relevant links:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

I am overcome with feelings of relief. And ennui, a little. But mostly relief.

The Final Link In The Chain

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A: I think I get it now. I think I finally see! The entire point of an NFT is to put artificial limits — but universally enforced limits — on something that is cheap, almost effortless, to make!

A: If I spend five minutes creating a slapdash graphic and associate it with 100 different smart contracts, I’ve created scarcity without being constrained by the forces that usually determi...

Royalty Math

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B: So here’s the thing about smart contracts that is making NFTs — at least, the NFTs in their current form — so popular: you can set the terms of your smart contract so you not only get paid for the initial sale of an NFT, but also every time it’s resold.

A: You can do what?

B: It’s pretty simple: you put in the smart contract an initial sale price — you get all of that. You can...