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I was twenty-seven when my mother died, and twenty-nine when I held the funeral, because I was too stubborn to do it until I knew I wouldn't be the only one there. She had pretended to love hundreds of people. I was determined that at least two of us would pretend to love her back.
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15 Sep 2025
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There are no more Napoleons.
That's what Jay Waringcrane thinks. No one person can change the world—certainly not him, a college dropout from suburban Cleveland. Bitter, cynical, and disillusioned, Jay wants only one thing: to go to a different world, a world where he is the protagonist.
Jay gets his opportunity when he meets a devil granting wishes in exchange for souls. One contract later and he's transported to Whitecrosse, a fantastic realm of knights, fairies, and monsters. Whitecrosse teeters on the brink of calamity; it's desperate for a hero, any hero, to shape its destiny. It's exactly what Jay asked for.
But nothing's so simple. The real world, the world Jay left behind, isn't keen on letting someone escape its ironclad logical order. And the embodiment of that order, Jay's uptight and meticulous sister Shannon, will do whatever it takes to drag Jay back home—even if she has to follow him to the gates of Hell.
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06 Mar 2025
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It’s hard to believe, but out there in the sands, hidden among the rustlers, vagrants, and ne'er-do-wells? There still roams a hero. Now, he ain’t like the ones your granddad told you about, and he’s got his own inscrutable code, but when this dying world of ours tries to snuff your candle and you’re up a creek without a paddle, know that there’s at least one man you can always count on.
He has many names. The Chipped Boulder of the Tenth Mountain. Two-Nostril Tex. The Great Uniter of the Nation of Tar. El Mineral. The Kear Kid. Sniff.
But he’s humble. He don’t respond to none of that. If you want him to come and save your hide, only one name will do it.
You call for Cowboy Grak.
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03 Mar 2025
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The Vast and the Dark have been together for longer than time can be quantified, since the very first metaphysical breath taken by the newly formed universe. They were some of the first to exist, after all, as the natural phenomena that birthed the concepts that make them up were present and intertwined long before there was anything with a mind complex enough to fear them, and those natural phenomena made up the majority of existence for innumerable eons.
The Vast and the Dark are each other, in many ways—and if humanity were capable of comprehending what they are to each other, perhaps we would say that the Vast and the Dark are in love. At least, as much as two ageless, semi-sentient eldritch entities fuelled by fear can be in love.
Their worldly avatars, on the other hand, are... well, they're working on it.
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20 Oct 2023
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A pair of undead come across the same bonfire.
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16 Aug 2022