underconcretestars

This is a picture of a man in a concrete parking light. The atmosphere is grimy. He is doing his best to smile. He is wearing work clothes, a green jacket, a lanyard, and a vacant stare.



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  1. Summary

    Stories set in the same basic universe, at different times and sometimes parallel to one another.
    Between them, the connecting thread is that - the closer one looks -
    The more quickly the rules of the universe break down.
    A few are more 'grounded' than others, but what that means tends to vary.

    I you read them in chronological order, you'll see some common threads between them.
    Not all stories happen in each others' timelines, but their echoes remain present.

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  2. Summary

    Tales set in a low-fantasy world.
    Each of these are designed to follow the kind of people more likely to be footnotes, than heroes.
    If you've ever wanted to follow around singers, explorers, mercenaries, or outcasts, you might like these.

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  3. Summary

    Stories that take place in somewhat-connected cycles.
    Have a chakra drop while I sort them out.
    That's not enough?!.. Okay.
    Here's life stone.

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  4. Summary

    These are entries I do every Halloween (thus far)!
    Some are a little goofy, some are a little serious.
    All of them are attempts to channel the essential energy of the best holiday -
    Halloween!

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  5. Summary

    A very unconventional cosmic story.
    Depending on your point of view, one that's full of horror...
    Or not.

    Very (potentially) gross, so read the author's notes.

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  1. Rec 5

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    “Aren’t you a good little deckhead,” said the man keeping steely gaze firmly on the back of the other’s head without a single apparent emotion in his voice. “Clever enough to realize that getting to our datafort won’t be possible from remote location, yet too stupid to get caught red-handed. Do you have any idea of the repercussions awaiting you? I can assure you it won’t be anything pretty.”

    “Hmph. Wouldn’t expect anything else from corpo scum!”

    Oh.

    The unknown intruder happened to be a woman.

     

    Troy is a man born into the highest class in a city, where corporates thrive off exploiting the poor, yet unlike many of his station, he despises the dystopian new world order. All endeavours to slowly change things for the better, however, are disrupted, when a rogue netrunner and a random stray dog turn his somewhat peaceful life upside down.

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    “Earth spider animals are so beautiful and intelligent,” Teacher Grace said compassionately to Combustion-Fighter. A thrum of spider animals was going by on the street as it said this. “I wish there was a way I could talk to them and teach them about magnetism.”
    That was called ‘foreshadowing.’

    Three Eridian kids try and write a romance novel about their teacher.

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  3. Rec 7

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    Six years on from the events of Surrender, Surrender, the galaxy has changed dramatically in a short time. Alien life exists, and not all of it likes humanity back. Dr Elias Savage, young genius and self-claimed dickhead, is part of a diplomatic endeavour to increase goodwill towards the religious and xenophobic race of the Tylas. Given a blank check to carry out research for the sake of GaltCorp, there is only one problem lying between him and scientific glory – his haughty inorganic alien lab partner. Forced to rise together or fall alone, Elias must overcome his smartass nature if he is to uncover the secrets lying within the enigmatic Schrödinger-Drive, and to prevail against the shadowy forces lurking in the dark.

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  4. Rec 2

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    Goliath must ensure he has no weakness.

    28. Fear

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  5. Public Bookmark 1

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    Those left behind by the destruction of Wild Greg's pick up the pieces, moving on to find a new place in the world. Sade the Sapphire and Moonbeam, Greg's top dancers and best earners, team up with Elias, their stalwart guard, to try and make it day by day. Though those who have lived in shackles aren't satisfied with the chains any longer. With Sade at the helm, they'll use any means to ensure no one enslaves them again.

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