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Christmas Gift List 2013

It’s that time of year again, folks. The time of year when a big chunk of the world celebrates a massive secular holiday of gift giving, silly songs and fat guys with beards that happens to have the same name as another holiday held on the same day to celebrate the start of the middle child among the Abrahamic religions.

I’m not a religious dude, so I celebrate that first Christmas (and ironically, love the more religion-oriented carols like ‘We Three Kings’, ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’, and...

Liedecker Institute: Sophomore Year #3 – Rags to Rags Part 3

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Liedecker Institute Volume 4“Man, this isn’t how I pictured this day at all.” Zane suddenly broke the silence between himself and Phineas as they made their way down the street to Midnight Black.

Phineas made a hollow noise that might have been a snort of he had a nose. “What? Maya? Don’t worry about it, she’s jumpy about everything and everyone until she gets to know them. You’re just lucky Kura and Tammy aren’t back though: those two are really protect...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 3

This entry is part 43 of 43 in the series CurrentBlack heat rolled up around Darkness, burning away the yarn around her. At the same time, Chaos pulled a utility knife out of his belt and severed the swath of cloth that was rapidly covering his face.

“Grams, what are you doing?!” Len rushed to his grandmother’s side, but could do nothing to stop her as she sent more lines to grab up the coffee table and swing it at Darkness.

A burst of wind caught the table and wrenched it off-course, dashing i...

On Minions

My computer isn’t powerful enough to run the most modern of games, but I have had the chance to play some demos of games like Batman: Arkham City and do play older, awesome games like the Spider-man game that came out alongside the first movie.

This isn’t really a review blog (for that, I will leave you in the capable hands of Linkara and Spoony ), but I will give my impressions of those games because it informs a lot of this article. In a nut shell, I would actually like those games more if I...

Spider’s 7 – Journey’s End

This entry is part 25 of 25 in the series The Spider's SevenThings have been going so well for Mueller.

The cult had come before the Adversarial Force. He’d always been in love with the rock star lifestyle, especially the groupies. It wasn’t even about the sex for him; it was the power. The power to make people do what he wanted them to. And when he got the small taste of it local celebrity could bring with his band, SabreReady, he wanted more.

Alas, SabreReady wasn’t ready for prime-time and n...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 2

This entry is part 42 of 42 in the series Current“So far we’ve got three folks from upper crust neighborhoods with no connection between them, each getting a different power and then crashing.” Ian knew Alexis knew all this because she’d just told him in different terms, but it helped him organize his thoughts, “All three had priors?”

“Only Stark had anything serious,” Said Alexis over the comm. “She has two assaults on record. The rest… drunk and disorderly, vandalism, petty theft…”

“If I hadn...

Rune Breaker IV: Evil Unto Evil Is Now On Sale

This is it folks, the finale of the Rune Breaker saga I started on this site two years ago. Book 4,Evil Unto Evil, is now available at:

Amazon / B&N / Kobo

DriveTrue Fiction and iTunes editions will be available soon! You might want to get it now instead of waiting for it to update on the site, because the last chapter won’t show up here until some time in 2015! (EUE is 19 chapters long and RB updates 1 chapter/month). Also, there is a book-only bonus scene at the end that Iknow you’ll want to...

The Science of The Descendants

I love science. The only reason I’m not a scientist is that I don’t also love math (I’m actually pretty good at math, I just don’t enjoy it). Unsurprisingly, where a love of science and a lack of ability to actually do science intersect, speculative fiction blossoms.

But what might be surprising is that even in the midst of all the magic and superpowers of the Descendants Universe, I’ve managed to slip you guys a healthy dose of Vitamin SCIENCE! Along the way. And I mean actual science that is...

Rune Breaker: Chapter 44 – Haumea

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Evil Unto Evil (Rune Breaker, #4)The Gathered Shards Inn was just across one of the bridges from the Library on an island Brin and Kaiel both identified as University Island.

Yolinderian’s remark about the Historical Society not volunteering any tangible resources proved all too correct, as the inn was one that typically catered to scholarly pilgrims come to study at the library. As such, the rooms were little more than sparse cells with a bed and writin...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 1

This entry is part 41 of 41 in the series Current“Usman, we need more of the chicken, okay?” Jarrod Speilman informed his partner as he bent over three open tortillas, two of which had the proper amount of chicken filling while the third was only three-quarters filled. In the meantime, he spooned salsa over the two there were ready for it and reached for the block cheese and grater.

From his place in the kitchen section of the Taco Terrifico food truck, Usman Nanda nodded, watching the electro...