HeyJaredTHE SHIELDBREAKER SAGA
A people's last hope for survival is a nineteen-year-old kid who may be out of his fucking mind.
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Uskol & Uskol, Chapter 1 (opens the original)
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PREVIOUSLY on the Shieldbreaker Saga… Twenty-odd years ago, Varyta ul-Ismal became Kogon of all the tribes of the Etela after defeating the Kasvir and the Tvomir in the Vesret Pass. Then, three years ago, his son tried to usurp him with the help of the Daughters of Vei and devastated the Hodrir, significantly weakening their political footing just as the region is becoming less stable...(Uskol & Uskol is
Holiest of Cities LIVE Reading: Chapter 12 (the one with the bridge…) (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who hung out this afternoon.Writing deadline for Bridges is Monday 11:59pm Eastern. E-book is for sale ONLY until Friday 9/25. Get in on it here.
Pillars (opens the original)
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On August 16, record-setting flood waters put large swathes of Indiana under water, including Broad Ripple, the heart of the Indianapolis counter-culture art scene. We’re selling an e-book to benefit artists in that neighborhood who were impacted by the flooding. You can read more about it below. TSPILLARSEvery bridge is a risk. Someone always needsto go down there, way, way down,deep in a fuckingriverbed,andtrust that thedam will hold long enough forthem to sink a pillar and get back to the sur
FIC PRESENTS: Building Bridges for Broad Ripple (opens the original)
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WE THE UNDERSIGNED have, over our eighteen-or-so months of undersigning things, put several mutual aid initiatives in place to directly benefit members of the Substack fiction-writing community.We’re doing something a little different for this one, as a nod to the idea of all of us being part of a larger community of independent artists—and understanding that, things being how they are, we had better all be in this together.On the weekend of August 16, record-setting flooding put large swathes o
KOGON, a Shieldbreaker Story (opens the original)
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“He was a killer, your father. Quick as anyone I ever saw with a blade…”- Metan ul-Aravan, to KarevaThe Vesret Pass looked no more inviting on the fourth day than it had on the first. Most of the Etela tribes lived in the foothills that rose up into the red mountains on the northern wall of this horrible red canyon; that was challenging enough terrain to deal with. For the Hodrir to have somehow made their home within the Pass for hundreds of years…Lukaz ul-Arsav, Oproz of the Tvomir, was still
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