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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 16: The First Step

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, It’s the morning after the ritual, and something has changed. The air feels lighter, and for the first time in what feels

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 15: A Time for Hopes and Fears

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Plans are in motion. Our group, now almost twenty strong, is preparing to do something drastic: a ritual, using the black tree as a conduit

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 14: Light at the Edges

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, The community around the black tree is growing. More people are coming, drawn by the hum and the promise of understanding this new

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 12: The Tree Sees

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, Last night, Brad and Eliza’s dog, Juno, started barking at the black tree in the garden. Their barks were urgent, scared. We

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 11: Perpetual Half-Light

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, Eliza and I decided to venture further into the twilight today. The dusky glow seems to touch everything now, wrapping the world in

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 9: Eliza

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, I met someone today. Not Ludwig, not a shadow child, but a person. She was walking down the middle of the road, her

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 7: Eyes of the Sun

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, I followed them, those shadow children. Brad was hesitant, but loyalty won over fear. We walked deeper into the woods, past the glowing

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 4: Barking Madness

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, Last night…well, it’s always night now, isn’t it? Sort of. Anyway. My phone said it was 9:36 P.M.

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 3: What the Sun Said

Dear Posse, I want to thank everyone who keeps commenting to say “the eclipse is over, everything is normal, it’s cool, quit worrying, stop freaking out.” I know better. The shadows want me to think the same thing. I’m not falling for it. I walked down the Tobacco

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 2: Dollar Store Twilight

I’m working on a serial fiction project. (Did you miss No. 1?) Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, I expected it to be darker, not this dollar store twilight. Left my car at home. My vision’