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Useless: Chapter 9

Nancy Everetta entered a spacious high rise apartment and twirled around with a smile on her face.  She leaned forward and smiled. “What do you think of your new home?”

Dan was amazed when he entered the building, but now that he could see the views of the city, he was gobsmacked. “Why are you letting me live here?”

Nancy beckoned him.  “Here, have a look out the window.”  She tugged him by the cuff of his shirt and held it for a moment before letting go...

Useless: Chapter 8

Dan entered his oddly familiar world of debauchery at the Candycade and headed to Joan’s office.  When he knocked on her door, he heard nervous shoving of random things into drawers.  After a moment, Joan yelled out “enter!”

He cracked the door and peeked in.  Joan was looking flushed and she had a sheen to her skin.  He shook his head and walked in.  

He waved. “How’s it going boss?”

She took a few breaths before lighting up a cigar...

Useless: Chapter 7

On a rainy Monday afternoon Dan sat on his futon watching the news on his new television.  He felt like he had earned it after going through the hell of that interview at Hazel and Richardson.  Dan had kept busy at work since then and had a few very grateful customers and Joan was very happy with his revenue numbers.  The partying and the subsequent lovemaking helped keep his mind off his abject failure as a superhero.  Today was his day off and he envisioned a lazy do-not...

Useless: Chapter 6

Late in the morning Dan was able to get to the offices of Hazel and Richardson a few blocks south of Faneuil Hall.  The building was modern and impressive.  A woman named Janice had called him up and organized a meeting with him so they could have an interview and do some basic tests.  When he entered, he saw the place had more than a few women dressed in body hugging suits and capes.  He knew he was in the right place.

He approached the information desk and talked t...

Useless: Chapter 5

The masked gunwoman felt what it was like to be held in the air by her jacket.  She kicked frantically as a man of all things had her helpless in the air. She barked to the back of the 4 and 20 “Deleria! Now would be a good fucking time!” 

“Tell me why you’re bothering poor granny?”  Dan asked from behind his black cowl.  “Do criminals just like picking on the weak, or is she just fantastically wealthy?”

“I got next to nothing nibble nuts!”&nb...

Useless: Chapter 4

The Back Bay Blazers huddled over Sister In Law’s computer screen watching CC camera footage of a convenience store robbery. 

Sister adjusted her navy blue supersuit and pointed to the screen.  “He shows up right after the suspects assault the employee, coming in through the glass door.  Right…there.”

Sally Comet pushed her blonde hair past her ear and bent over looking intently, her blue eyes darting over the screen. “That slap, can we analyze the force o...

Useless: Chapter 3

Joan stared at Dan as he walked into the basement of the Candycade.   She lit up a Continental 100 and took a long drag as he approached.  Dan was going to the gloryhole room before Joan clicked her tongue and beckoned him.

“What do you think you’re doing?”  She croaked.

“I’m going to work, Joan.”  He went for a locker.

Joan pointed her smouldering cigarette in his direction.  “Fuck you Dan, ain’t no way you’re working the hole anym...

Useless: Chapter 2

Dan walked back to Candycade in his best clothes, looking to get drunk as a skunk.  The building covered in pictures of preening pretty boys was now pumping out bass infused dance music.  He snuck into the employee entrance with his hood up.  After getting inside he relaxed and found Joan in her office.

“Joan, I’ve decided to have a drink with the boys.”  He pointed at his dress shirt and khakis. “Will this outfit do ok?”

“Not if you want to make ba...

Useless: Chapter 1

Dan Gadsen flipped through his cheap smartphone while he walked home from the Candycade.  He was looking for a job that he was good at in his old world, but nothing seemed to be a good match.  It had been six months since he woke up in a dumpster in this new world, and things had only gone downhill from there.

At first he thought this new world would be awesome.  Dan was fairly good looking with red hair and blue eyes and a fit build.  The female to male ratio seemed...

Life on Netori Island - Chapter 10

Al was able to calm down by riding the long way to the North mansion.  He still frowned every time he thought about what Jo said and where her priorities lay.  He gripped the handlebars tightly from time to time, recalling that shirtless handyman pecking up Jo’s wrist, and that playful smile she had.  He shook his head and cleared his mind when he stopped his bike at the mansion’s side entrance.

Al looked all over the building, taking in its tasteful extravagance.&nbs...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 18

Prince Slethen pulled his jacket and straightened himself in front of the giant doors of Strayvenhoe’s grand dance hall.  His slender assistant Peter nodded to the master of ceremonies before looking at the Prince.  “Your royal highness.  I know your uncle Uther is not your favorite, but this ball was prepared in your honor.”

“He’s a lecherous scoundrel and my father should have had him locked up before I was old enough to learn to hate him.”  He waved hi...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 17

Edric the pigfarmer smiled weakly and drank his ale, wondering why he had to pay for dinner before fucking this whore.  He had spoken with Lenny only the night before and paid a fair price for an hour with one of his girls.  Lenny charged more this time because Lori was new in town and Edric would be the first villager to have her.

When he approached the auburn haired beauty, she had acknowledged the arrangement and seemed to want to get it over with.  They were about to ...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World -Chapter 14

John was soaked through and chilled to the bone when he returned to the Wolf’s Head Inn in the middle of the night.  The front door was closed, so he decided to walk down the alleyway.  His eyes scanned the building, trying to find a way into the building.  Every door was locked and every window was shuttered.  He cursed at himself for not having some means of quietly getting back into his warm bed.  John started to shiver and his jaw clattered his teeth together, t...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 13

John slipped his money purse inside his buff coat as the crowds gathered along the high street to witness the parade of the hero’s party.  John and the other Bobcats had come into Stravyenhoe that morning and heard about the parade from the town cryer.  This was the easiest way to see for sure that Tricia was alive and who she was with.  As people pressed in on him his eyes started to water and he lifted his fingers to his nose and pinched taking a few breaths before bringing...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 11

Lizzy Graetz sharpened her saber in the darkness, drawing her sword at an angle against a whetstone with precise curved movements.  The redhead was on the second shift of night watch on their way from the hick town of Dolono to the much more civilized Strayvenhoe.  Polishing the stone distracted her from the sounds she heard in the underbrush.  The girl had trained her ear to ignore the local expected sounds and be sensitive to the out of the ordinary, or approaching sounds tha...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 10

John found himself standing at the last place he wanted to be, the front door of the Tipped Brazier.  He had spent some part of his day for the better part of a week asking people if they saw Tricia, but he had no luck.  Looking around him, he saw that the inn was probably nice when it was first built, but because it was cheaper than the Plough, the rougher types of travelers tended to stay here.  They drank hard and they had little respect for the building or the furniture.&nb...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 9

Brideen crouched down behind a corner of a dank dungeon drawing imaginary lines on her hand while shouting orders over a group of goblins laughing and yelling at them.

“John, I want you to put down some cover fire while Netruna gets to the other side of this junction.  She pointed down a hallway.  Allonsa, we know that tunnel leads to behind that group of green boys,  see if you can flank them.  Once Ally is drawing their attention, Lori and I will make a frontal ...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 8

The Crimson Raiders walked into the Dolono adventurers guild like they owned the place.  Tricia walked in with the four Raiders guarded around her.  Tricia turned quite a few heads in the outfit they had purchased for her.  The halter top pushed her cleavage up to physics defying heights, as well as drawing attention to her posterior in a short skirt.  They sauntered to the guild receptionist’s desk and knocked on the wooden counter. 

 Ezmirelda put on he...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 7

While the Crimson Raiders walked down a muddy lane in town, Tricia turned to Jethro and asked. “Hey what’s a brazier?”

The buff swordfighter sighed. “It’s like a metal box to have a fire or coals that's up on metal feet.  So it’s off the ground unlike a regular fire pit.”

“Ah, so that’s why it can be tipped over.”  Tricia nodded. “Got it.  Thanks!”  She said in her cutest voice she could muster.

Jethro and the Raiders had just gott...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 6

After three days of fruitless searching, Brideen finally called the search for Tricia off and started the march home.  What had started as a glimmer of hope in the cave, was now a dark miasma in John’s heart.  It wasn’t a complete loss,  John’s pack had a net sack filled with the ears and noses of various monsters the party had stalked and killed.  The girls were happy to let John do most of the work from a distance, though Netruna had expended a good bit of mana fro...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 4

After a hearty breakfast of porridge and black tea, John followed his new comrades into the forest along the logging path he had taken to get into town.    He had chosen to unload some of his equipment from his pack so he could take on some of the items that the girls would have had to carry themselves.

Netruna smiled as she handed off hard leather vials containing magic potions to John.  “Thanks for taking the load John, just remember - I have to grab some of this stuf...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 3

John sat awkwardly in the corner of the main guild hall and nervously bounced his heels like he was back in high school.  This area was designated as the new recruit table and was appropriately painted with green paint.  People had carved their names into the table.  Many of them were crossed out with a single line and had date underneath it.  He shivered at the thought of so many people sitting at this table probably died horrible deaths trying to rid the world of monster...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 2

The night before:

Tricia Mazzo fumbled with her flashlight in the dark, looking for a place to pee.  She always hated when she had to leave the tent at night when she and John went camping.  The bugs always swarmed her and she was always afraid of getting a tick.  The muggy hot air had made her sweat and her tank top clung to her wet skin.

“John knows I hate camping. Grrr.”  She grumbled while stepping through the narrow path to get to the makeshif...

Chasing My Fiancée Across A Fantasy World - Chapter 1

“Tricia!....Triciaaaaa!”  John bellowed into the forest looking for his girl.  “It’s not like her to go running off like this, something is very wrong.”  He looked at his cell phone and saw what he expected to see, zero bars.  Up here in the Appalachians there were still pockets where cell phone service did not reach.  He thought hard as he broke camp and packed it all in his backpack.

He could take the trail down to the country road they had parked at...

Life On Netori Island - Chapter 9

Al walked his bike into the garage to find Patrick and Lillian hunched over a laptop. Both were pointing at the screen and shrugging.  After he parked his single speed near his bench he went over to them.

“What’s going on?”

Pat responded, “We’re analyzing the data for the repaired drone stations.  We see charging levels going up even faster than before, but temperature readings are twenty degrees lower.  What did you do?”

Al popped his can of spray...

Life On Netori Island - Pic Dump So Far

Here's all the images I've generated so far for this story. Going forward I will put them into the chapters like on Scribblehub.

Here's all the images I've generated so far for this story. Going forward I will put them into the chapters like on Scribblehub.

Here's all the images I've generated so far for this story. Going forward I will put them into the chapters like on Scribblehub.

Life On Netori Island - Chapter 8

The late summer sun baked Al’s skin as he labored on a drone charging station above the forest canopy.  The station looked like a cell phone tower, but instead of antennae, the tower had electrified hooks that the drone could attach to and recharge.  Patrick had given him five inverter modules and told him to install them on the stations that were furthest from the maintenance garage.  While the bike helped a lot, it was still a long trek into the wilderness using the trailbl...

Life On Netori Island - Chapter 7

Al rode his new-to-him single speed bike back to his cabin.  He found it collecting dust in the back of the cybernetic repair facility, oiled it up, and patched the tires.  A fifteen minute walk was now only a few minutes.  

He rode up the driveway to see Jo lying on one of the beach recliners.  Al smiled at seeing the raw beauty of his wife.   He then heard the sound of a nail gun up on his cabin’s roof.  Up there he saw a man not younger than him s...

Life On Netori Island - Chapter 6

Al walked around the repaired combo-farmer, nodded, and said, “I think I got the bot we pulled from the trench back up and running Patrick.”

Patrick put his hair up in a man bun and walked over to him.  “Not bad Al.  Why don’t you send it over to Gus to help for the rest of the day.  Take a trailblazer sword with you though,  I need you to go to these coordinates on the ridge to get a drone that ran out of juice mid flight.  If we can’t repair it, I ca...

Life On Netori Island Chapter 5

Light streamed into Al and Jo’s cabin the next morning.  The pair stood at the foot of the bed and Al scowled at her while Jo’s eyes darted left and right.

He pointed a finger at her naked body. “All I’m asking is for you to explain how we got that penalty wiped out. I don’t remember doing anything funny yesterday, we only did it in the shower, so you must know the reason.”

“My job was working in Resden Smith’s garden around their pool.  He heard we were ...