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Katalepsis Book Two is going on hiatus.

Hello everyone.

I have some bad news for the present, and some (hopefully) good news for the future.

I’m going to put this in bullet points first, to rip the bandage off as quickly as possible; after that I’ll write a much longer version, for those of you who are interested in the details.

Okay, so. Here goes. The short version.

• Katalepsis Book Two is going on an indefinite hiatus. Book Two, Arc One, Chapter 19 is now the end ...

  2025-09-05 17:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Necroepilogos, deluge - 16.3

Tick tock, tick tock. Time counts down for zombie girls too, even in the cold of the tomb. But it seems like there's few hours left, before the gates are thrown wide for all the hounds of hell.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/09/04/deluge-16-3/

Password is: agnostic

An epub of the chapter is attached below, as always!

The arc is well underway now, and I'm still expecting it to be a...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.19

Chapter wanders the misty moors, singing lonely songs in forgotten tongues, to ears that quiver in fright behind high stone walls.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/08/29/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-19/

This week's password is: scrivener

Regular epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

Maisie, you really do need to let me know how close we are to the...

Necroepilogos, deluge - 16.2

Like insects huddled beneath a rock, zombie girls writhe and wriggle down in the dark, warming themselves on each other's undead flesh.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/08/28/deluge-16-2/

Password is: dispossession

An epub of the chapter is attached below, as always!

More arc 16! I'm very excited for this one, for the rest of this arc, for where it's all going; our zombie girls migh...

Necroepilogos, deluge - 16.1

Black rain falls unceasing, from skies long burned to ash. No dead soul recalls the sun, and the soil is turned to dust. But zombie girls can reinvent the umbrella, and this time it'll be made from the skirts of a goddess.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/08/21/deluge-16-1/

Password is: quiescence

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

No interlude! I thought we might h...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.18

Chapter sifts alien sand through three-clawed hands, watching sunset behind glittering rings, waiting for nightfall so far from Earth.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/08/15/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-18/

This week's password is: ameliorate

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

Maisie continues her weird little jaunt out beyond the...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.17

Chapter strides the fairy paths, through woodland shadow and moorland mist, outpacing night's unkind caress.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/08/08/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-17/

This week's password is: antithesis

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

Another chapter of Maisie's Marvelous And Most Harrowing Happening thus unfolds. And! This wee...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.6

Zombie girls fall deep into dreary dark, with no way out but down and down and down. But what's that? Is it a speck of light, or just a flicker of the brain, before endless night?

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/08/07/venari-15-6/

Password is: perdition

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

It's the last chapter of arc 15! Yes, really! I wasn't sure if this would hit ...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.16

Chapter wanders lightless halls between starlight voids of smoke and ash, raking claws along stony walls, following silent footfalls in the crushing gloom.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/08/01/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-16/

This week's password is: extricate

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

Maisie's opening adventure meets t...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.5

Too many zombiegirls all crammed into one place. Zombie girl critical mass! That results in a zomsplosion. Or a girlsplosion? No, that's what Elpida does behind closed doors.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/07/31/venari-15-5/

Password is: furor

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

Chapter 5, chapter 5! Is ... not the end of the arc! Not quite yet, anyway. There's ...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.4

Peel back the shell, the ceramic chainmail, the padded clothes, the bodysuit, and what's left beneath but a memory of flesh? Don't worry, zombie girls, you're just as real as wild-grown meat.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/07/24/venari-15-4/

Password is: malachite

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

Once again, the characters have pushed beyond what I expected them...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.15

Chapter surfs the rim of the accretion disk, singularity below, void above, accelerating into an infinity of stars ahead.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/07/18/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-15/

This week's password is: phobia

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

Maisie's Magnificent Adventure (it's not magnificent for Maisie, it doesn'...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.14

Chapter howls through the highland murk, calling from hilltops and ridges, seeking trespassers in the misty heights.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/07/11/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-14/

This week's password is: Falstaff

An epub of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

You know what? I think we might be going to more than 20 chapters. I don't know if...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.3

Don't give up, Ooni! You're not a skeleton yet, but you might end up that way, if you give up hope. So, don't! Hope never dies.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/07/10/venari-15-3/

Password is: bushwhack

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

Arc 15 gets into the meat and gristle and marrow-filled bones now - though I'm still uncertain how much of it there ...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.13

Chapter wanders the cold streets of morning, past walls of glass and under arches of steel, chasing the edge of night.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/07/04/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-13/

This week's password is: penitent

Epub of the chapter is also attached below!

Maisie, Maisie, Maisie, where are you going? Toward the hidden core of the narrative, you say?...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.2

Lost in a dark place, and the waters keep rising. These zombie girls better find higher ground, before they sink too deep.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/07/03/venari-15-2/

Password is: harrow

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below!

Arc 15 begins to thicken, like a strange and pungent witches' brew, made from zombie brains and zombie blood and, well, zombie everything ...

Necroepilogos, venari - 15.1

Do zombie girls hunt other zombie girls, or do they merely stagger and stumble the general direction of their desires?

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/06/26/venari-15-1/

Password is: gambeson

An epub of the chapter is also attached below!

Arc 15 begins! Those of you who've looked at the table of contents page will probably be surprised by the arc title - it was going to be 'deluge'...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.12

Chapter dives the flanks of brine-streaked isles, scooping silt and salt with webbed claws, sucking seaworms from a handful of mud.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/06/20/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-12/

This week's password is: submerge

An epub upload of the chapter is also attached below!

Maisie Morell's Bizarre Adventure continues apace! And with this chapte...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.11

Chapter sails the sun-starved void between creations, on wings of silver gossamer and a hull of stone-hard wood glazed with molten gold.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/06/13/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-11/

This week's password is: alcazar

Epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

The opening arc of Eusebeia Epoche pushes onward, into per...

Necroepilogos, Arc 14 Interlude: Iriko, In The Dark

Do blob girls go slorpa-slorp if nobody is around to get eaten? Iriko would never slurp her food, she's too polite.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/06/12/interlude-iriko-in-the-dark/

Password is: flounder

An epub version of the chapter is attached below, as always!

Surprise, it's an interlude! Even better, it's an Iriko interlude! It's been a little while since we l...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.10

Chapter burrows through soil and rock, haunting warrens and racing moles, winding through the iron-grey forest roots.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/06/06/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-10/

This week's password is: benighted

An epub version of the chapter is also linked below, as always!

And we are back once more, dear readers! Once more into the wonderland of ...

Necroepilogos, utero - 14.8

Wake up, zombie girl. Wake up and chug your brain juice, you've got work to do.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/06/05/utero-14-8/

Password is: redoubt

Epub version of the chapter is attached below!

And! This! Is! The final chapter of arc 14! Woooo!

This one has been an interesting ride; I intended it to be as short and compact and to-the-point as possible, and while I do think...

Necroepilogos, utero - 14.7

Are nanomachine zombies just robots, destined to fulfil their fate; or are these soft machines something more then mere automation?

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/05/29/utero-14-7/

Password is: infusion

An epub version of the chapter is also attached below, as always!

And! We are! Almost there! Alllllmost! This is not (as I expected) the final chapter of arc 14 - we have one more l...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.9

Chapter hangs in low orbit, skimming the edge of the void, waiting for the secret signal from the surface below.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/05/23/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-9/

This week's password is: acropolis

Epub of the chapter is also linked below!

Ohhh, we're really getting stuck in now; and so is Maisie. The parts of her that truly matter begin to ...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.8

Chapter crawls from a cocoon of glass and steel, unfurling wings of wire and light, before fluttering off into the cosmic deep.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/05/16/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-8/

This week's password is: moppet

An epub version of the chapter is linked down below, like always!

Wheeeeeeeee! I feel like the arc is really starting to find its fee...

Necroepilogos, utero - 14.6

Do zombie girls dream of electric meat? What core of gristle and grime lies behind all that cold bone?

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/05/15/utero-14-6/

Password is: distemper

An epub of the chapter is also attached down below!

Arc 14 ... does not conclude just yet! That's right, this is not the final chapter of the arc; for once this had nothing to do with Elpida or others...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.7

Chapter waits in the old clocktower, singing songs to passing maidens, waiting for the hands to strike the hour.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/05/09/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-7/

This week's password is: reverie

Epub version of the chapter is also linked down below!

Maisie is really settling in for the long haul now. She's found her voice and found her plac...

Necroepilogos, utero - 14.5

What undead hand, what undead face, lies behind the curtain lace? Not Elpida's, that's for sure.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/05/08/utero-14-5/

Password is: monocyte

Epub version of the chapter is also linked below!

Arc 14 crashes toward a crescendo - though not without some detours on the way, both expected and unexpected (and inexpected? That's not a word, never mind.) Ahem. He...

Necroepilogos, utero - 14.4

Silico or silicon? Or just too silly to get along? Elpida can't rely on unforeseen qualities; she best hold on to that gun.

https://necroepilogos.net/2025/05/01/utero-14-4/

Password is: artifice

An epub version of the chapter is attached below, as always!

Arc 14 continues to power along both faster and more complex than I expected; I'm very happy with how it's shaping up, though! E...

Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.6

Chapter vaults the fallen trees, scurrying through barbed undergrowth, sniffing out a trail of knives on the forest floor.

https://katalepsis.net/2025/04/25/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-6/

This week's password is: deferral

As always, an epub version of the chapter is linked down below!

We're really getting stuck into the arc now! There's more unfolding here...