Corrupting Power

Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics - Part 6

Part Six – “This Is Penance”

December 11th, 2020

Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been the first dinner since she had arrived in New Eden without Andy at it, and that definitely changed the energy. All the women seemed a little nervous, even though they understood what was happening to Andy. Still, it was a very different between knowing...

Quaranteam 2:16

Chapter Sixteen

December 21st, 2020

Los Angeles around Christmastime was an odd place to be. Normally, everyone went home for the holidays, and it left Los Angeles a mostly empty area, because the old adage was that nobody was originally from Los Angeles – everyone had come from somewhere else before they’d settled there. This time, however, people didn’t feel comfortable traveling yet, nor did they feel safe leaving their homes. T...

Weekly Update - 10/18/23

I'm about halfway through QT2:16 right now and will have it either before I go to bed tonight, or sometime tomorrow midday. We've got Andy in LA! So I do want to get that right. We'll have a timeskip coming up relatively soon in the storyline, and as expected, QT2:20 will probably be the only QT2 chapter in the month that it drops, because it will be the wedding, and because somehow I always seem to write Chapter 20s that get to be enormous. ...

Morgana's Gift - (Pt. 18) - Chapter 7

Chapter Seven – Easy

With only a few weeks until the wedding, Kevin was so glad his responsibilities ended with attending the wedding. He’d offered to contribute as much or as little as Fatima wanted, but it turned out that when her father’s show had offered to pay for the wedding, they’d taken on more than a little bit of control of where and how everything was going to happen.

The last thing Fatima wanted was for her wedding to go full-blown reality television...

Brewster's Brood - Ch. 33

Part Thirty-three

Danny Garney – 3/11/2017 – Sunday – 05:35 am

“Christ,” Danny said to himself, looking on with binoculars as a mysterious figure left Max, disappeared behind the house and walked off into the underbrush around the house. “I knew something was odd when the cameras blinked off. Did they think we weren’t going to notice?”

It was too early to call Mrs. Churchill – she’d still be sleeping, and nothing at this point seemed urgent enough to wa...

Weekly Update - 10/11/23

I'm doing my best to get through this, but some weeks, the muse is against you, and it's like pushing into the wind. I'll get through this Brewster's Brood release tonight before I crash, and will try and blast through Breakpoint as soon as I can, but it's been a weird week, with the weather doing all sorts of flips and my creativity not pushing the way it should. I'm starting to suspect this other story idea I have lingering my head is causing the block, so ...

Weekly Update 10/4/23

Man, literally nothing is where I left it. Heh. So Patreon sprung a redesign on us, and I'm still figuring out where everything's at. There's a "collections" feature which I'm going to try and fiddle with at some point over the next few days - I suspect it's just going to do what I've been doing with using tags to sort things, but it'll take a few hours of finagling, so if things are slow for the next week, it's probably because I'm going back and editing an entire load of old posts to put th...

Quaranteam - Book Two, Intermission 3 (Ch. 15.5)

Intermission Three – Kai

December 20th, 2020 – Hamburg, Germany

The snow was lightly drifting down from the sky, and Kai Schumann stepped out from the Emilienstraßestation heading north, heading towards Weihnachtsmarkt Osterstraße, a broad smile on his face, three lovely women in tow, his first partner Anny, his second partner Claudia and his newest partner Ilse. All eleven of his partners had wanted to come out with him, b...

The Fertile Grove - Pt. 4 (Alpha readers)

The Fertile Grove: The Devil In Me (Felicia)

A “Detachable” story

By Devin McTaggart

In the period of time between when Starfall arrived and when my next wife-to-bed was scheduled to arrive, I had to do very specific homework and make sure my ass was covered, because I knew with the next woman to arrive, so too would a shitload of complications.

Succubi were nothing to be tangled with lightly.

Eternal Wayfarer College had a ...

The Fertile Grove - Pt. 3 (all readers)

The Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)

A “Detachable” story

By Devin McTaggart

The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, forming a perfect couple almost immediately. Ciara also seemed to take great delight in putting Nina into her place, something which Nina also seemed to get off on. Ciara and I had gotten to the point where we were already finishing each other’s sentenc...

Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics - Ch. 6 (Alpha draft)

Part Six – “This Is Penance”

December 11th, 2020

Fiona and Ash enjoyed dinner with the rest of the girls, but it felt insanely odd doing it without Andy around. In fact, for Fiona it had been the first dinner since she’had arrived in New Eden without Andy at it, and that definitely changed the energy. All the women seemed a little nervous, even though they understood what was happening to Andy. Still, it was a very different between knowi...

Quaranteam: Aisling's Antics - Ch. 4 & 5

(UPDATE: Apparently I didn't a

Neon Stonehenge - Ch. 3 (ALPHA)

Chapter Three – “Willful Manchild”

Here’s a bit of Bay Area trivia you probably don’t know – Treasure Island has a smaller island a couple of miles to the north of it. You won’t find it on any maps. In fact, none of the boats really know it’s there – they just sort of drift around it. It’s not a very big island, only a hundred acres or so of space, but it’s invisible to anyone who can’t see beyond the veil of magic. For me to get out there, I hav...

Neon Stonehenge - Part 2 (all subscribers)

Chapter Two – “Goddamn Apples”

It wasn’t the first time I’d found myself in the checkout line of a Safeway a few hours after sunset with a bag of apples, a package of carrots and a bag of sugar cubes, and I was quite certain it wouldn’t be the last time either, despite the shady looks the art school dropout student behind the checkout counter was giving me.

“Problem?” I asked her, as she pushed her undercut flop of slime green hair off to one side ...

Weekly Update - 9/27/23

It's been a pretty crazy week. Maybe you've heard? As such, there have been a shitload of day job meetings happening since word broke on Thursday that writers were probably going back to work. My phone has been ringing a lot, and I don't think I've paid for a meal since Friday, which is both good and bad, because it means I've been driving ...

Amor Ex Machina - Part 2

Chapter 2

For the next several hours, Ali chatted me up with questions designed to fill in the one thing all the data about me couldn’t justifiably reveal – motive. It was the hardest thing for data analytics to fill in when it came to human understanding. It could often jump to common causality – that is to say that similar actions often have similar inspirations, like, if you’re suddenly shopping for baby clothes, either you or your partner is pregnant, or som...

Weekly Update - 9/20/23

Back from vacation, and California's on fire all over again. It's been a wild couple of days, with me having to provide a bunch of rides for friends to SFO, which has eaten up a ton of the last three days, as several of them either go out of vacation or taking surprise trips in an effort to get aware from the bad air of the Bay Area right now, which, I get. Believe me, I get. Our AQI here in the South Bay has been over 100 for the last two days, and as such, doing anything that even ...

A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 8 (alpha)

Chapter Eight

When Will woke up, the first thing he felt were cold iron shackles around his wrists and ankles, but those weren’t the only bindings that he had. There were bands around his forearms, his biceps, his calves and his thighs. They were pulled tight, affixing him to a giant steel X. He’d been stripped down to his boxers, but they’d left him with that much, so there was that, at least. He’d expected the temperature to be freezing cold, but it s...

A Pack Of His Own - Ch. 7 (all patrons)

Chapter Seven

“You knew my father?” Will asked as the massive wall of a man sat down across from him in the Burger King booth. He was just a solid rectangle of flesh beneath the heavy cloth, and it made Will just a little bit nervous.

“Not knew, but know, young William,” Pavel said. The man’s voice had an eastern European or Russian accent, Will wasn’t entirely certain. “Simply because your father is not around does not mea...

Quaranteam: Phil's Tale - Chapter 15

Chapter 15

November 2nd, 2020

The Monday following the party, Phil had gotten into the office extremely early, wanting to be around before the majority of people had rolled in. He wasn’t a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes he needed to be able to work when the staff was at the minimum. He would’ve loved the office to have been entirely empty, but unfortunately those days were long since passed.

The office <...

Weekly Update - 9/13/23

So it'll be pretty light this week, because I'm in the middle of vacation, writing this update on WiFi in a cabin at a resort lodge in the middle of the central north forest. 

A few days left in the next poll, but the current leader is Amor Ex Machina, with CARP and Threadbinders a close second. 

Not sure what I'll put out for Friday, but I'm sure I'll start work on it tonight, so it'll hit Friday, and I'll also be sure to get stuff to the public sites on time. Public dr...

Before The Storm - Ch. 9

Chapter Nine

To call the planet where Cola’s daughter was incarcerated backwater would’ve been extremely generous. There were heavy duty automated ships and mining robots trafficking through the area, but actual people seemed to be scarce, which meant this was a corporate town, one with significant financial backing, despite how rural it looked.

While lots of mining planets relied on manual labor, or at least some layer of human oversight regarding the powerfu...

Quaranteam: Book 2, Chapter 15

Chapter Fifteen

December 19th, 2020

Sleeping had been difficult, but before they’d crashed for the night, things had looked like they were stabilizing in New Zealand, even as disastrous as it was. Current estimations were that the New Zealand population would end up somewhere between 15-20% of what it had been two weeks ago, and that was an improvement upon how terrifying it had looked just twelve hours earlier.

Even while they’d been traveling,...

Weekly Update - 9/6/23

The world is a crazy place. I'm in the back half of QT2:15 and will have that tomorrow afternoon. Friday or Saturday, Before The Storm won out the T4+ votes so it'll be the first You Decide! of the month.

Next week, I'll be on a family vacation, and I'm not entirely sure how reliable my internet access will be, so if you don't hear from me during the week, I'm not dead (probably), just somewhere away from internet access, and I'll get back to posting as...

The Fertile Grove - Part 3 (Alpha)

The Fertile Grove: Up-And-Coming (Starfall)

A “Detachable” story

By Devin McTaggart

The first couple of days with Ciara and Nina were crazy, as Ciara and I established a great rapport, forming a perfect couple almost immediately. Ciara also seemed to take great delight in putting Nina into her place, something which Nina also seemed to get off on. Ciara and I had gotten to the point where we were already finishing each other’s sentenc...

Brewster's Brood - Part 32

Part Thirty-two

Danny Garney – 3/10/2017 – Saturday – 10:47 pm

Danny ended the call and walked back towards the backyard deck where all the action was going on. They’d gotten Max into three different new partners over the last couple of hours, and now he was exhausted, but still willing to entertain people, listening to some of the women tell stories while telling tales of his own. The relaxed, jovial, cheerful Max was the sort of Max that Danny liked to see. It meant th...

Weekly Update - 8/30/23

You'd think I'd remember lessons I've learned before, but no, sometimes I still let writer's block get the better of me. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Brewster's Brood, and anticipate dropping that probably tomorrow. The next release after that will probably be Quaranteam 2:15, and I'm expecting that to hit Sunday, but we'll see. Maybe things will fly today/tomorrow and I'll be ahead of schedule. Ha ha ha haaaaa...

Obviously QT2:...