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I dreamed that characters of my unfinished stories begged me to finish those tales, otherwise their worlds would be destroyed.

So for them, I write.
Friends have fallen. Hope dwindles. All that remains is a final push to claim their future.

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January 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
From the opening scene of The Reclaimed.

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January 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
We should have seen it coming. It was impossible to get him back inside during the rare PNW snowfalls.
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I miss a lot about PDX. Rain, trees that stay green in the winter, more good food than you’ll ever get to eat - but not the 10-ish pounds I left there due to lack of said good food.

Jax, on the other hand, *loves* the Wisconsin winter.
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Red survived the fight, but the cost was high.

With no hope for repair or a recharge, he finds peace through memories captured in art.

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January 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Central Office's command was law, enforced by the soulless Reclaimers.

Until now, no one dared to fight back. But Red hadn't been given a choice.

From The Reclaimed, chapter 9: Spares

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December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Even after being cast into metal and having no memory of their human lives, the RAILs still seek expression. They still have stories to tell.

And they still fight.

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December 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Nobody *wants* to have their consciousness stuffed into a robot. The company says they're all criminals - but what crime would lead to this?

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December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Red learns why being a Shiny is special, and what survival costs in this new life.

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December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They've reached their destination, only to find they weren't the first.

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December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Sunflower kept to her forge, hiding from the connections that ended with pain.

And yet budding hope pulls her forward, past her memories and trauma, toward a future worth protecting.

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December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Who we want to be is not always who we are.

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December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My Electromatic is unofficially my favorite child. I’ve been wanting to go up to the Broadkaster tier or a while!
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Central Office's occupation has started. For the workers of station ND-12, life as they know it has changed forever.

But how long until they realize that?

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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Fable - long-hauler, storyteller, and heart of the Break Room crew - wakes from standby at the edge of another deserted station.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I don't have the creative energy to dive into revisions yet. Instead I'm focusing on other levers I can adjust.

I used the manuscript to generate a word cloud. This is an easy way for me to find words I'm overusing so I know where to start throwing a thesaurus.

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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Their oppressors have a weakness, locked in the memories of a fallen friend. Now they're forced to smuggle him - corpse and frozen mind - to keep hope alive.

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November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The memory's spark has caught. Uprising flares into revolution.

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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The Reclaimed

Chapter 1: init;
September 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Rest stop in Sterling, CO
August 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Moving is a lot, but Jax seems to be having a good time.
August 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
When the worse person you know makes a point.

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August 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
An unlikely alliance with the person everyone told you stay away from.

What could go wrong?

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July 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The community used to break down their fallen, recycling parts that keep them alive. But now, the brutal Reclaimers take the terminated RAILs back to Central Office and salvaging the dead is punishable by death.

Decay is inevitable.

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July 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM