CxB
Stories
6
Chapters
85
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116.8 K
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9 h, 43 m
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In a sleepy little valley, three children are aided in their quest to avoid busywork by two somewhat responsible adults, who send them off on the simple but time-consuming task of cleaning all the solar panels feeding power to their village.-
1.1 K • Oct 16, '26
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A collection of linked science fiction stories about the folks living and working in space. It’s intended to be vaguely realistic, aside from the one element that really really isn’t. But you’ll discover that as you read it. This was a NaNoWriMo thing from a long while ago. Still pretty happy with it, especially as I wrote the whole thing in a month (that’s…
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512 • Oct 9, '26
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Yeah, the title needs work. The original version was … How do I put this? … Worse. This one came from a comedy post on an online auction site. Someone was trying to sell a washing machine, claimed that it still ran but vibrated a lot, and said that one time he looked at the window while it was on maximum spin, saw dinosaurs,…
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650 • Oct 7, '26
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832 • Oct 7, '26
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Years ago this line, delivered in a clichéd pirate manner, came to mind; “Here we be, becalmed upon this desolate siding”. I have no memory of what spawned it, or why cartoonish pirates would be sailing on a rail network, though it may have had something to do with rail bikes, maybe? Anyway, the idea got kicked around a bit, and morphed into something…
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Invaders Detected! But they’re not actually invading. It’s not clear to anyone what they’re doing. It’s not even clear that they know what they’re doing. This is here because my friend Tom challenged/asked me to write five chapters of something before Gen Con. I didn’t want to do this by adding five chapters to one of the existing things, for reasons that continue to…-
1.4 K • Sep 29, '26
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1.4 K • Sep 29, '26
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I had a weird dream that had enough narrative to it that I wrote it down. A group of people were running through a disjointed landscape to accomplish some important task, passing through sections of buildings & parts of ships & ending up at a huge temple in the rain. They’re coworkers, and aren’t in the the best shape for a lot of running,…-
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