Insert: Your Own Dimension

Insert: Your Own Dimension The intricacies of dimensional travel are unimportant, and we recommend you not trouble yourself with them. We here at Frugal Wizard Inc.® have done the hard part for you. All you need to do is pick the package you want, and we will deliver one pristine, Earth-lite™ dimension to you. That…

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The Sunlit Man | Chapter Three

The Sunlit Man | Chapter Three The entire city vibrated, and the buildings swayed sickeningly. Cracks appeared in the metal street beneath Nomad, but as he began to panic, his captors calmly stepped across the cracks and pulled him into a building. The city shook and split. It … it wasn’t breaking. It was disassembling. It shattered…

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Yumi | Chapter Four

Yumi | Chapter Four The local steamwell erupted right as Yumi was passing—at a safe distance—on the way to the place of ritual. A glorious jet of water ascended from the hole in the center of the village. A furious, superheated cascade that reached forty feet at its highest—a gift from the spirits deep below.…

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Tress | Chapter Four

Tress | Chapter Four Leave. Leave the island? People didn’t leave the island. Tress knew, logically, that wasn’t explicitly true.  Royal officials could leave.  The duke left on occasion to report to the king.  Plus he’d earned all those fancy medals by killing people from a distant place where they looked slightly different.  He’d apparently been quite…

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Frugal Wizard | Chapter Three

Frugal Wizard | Chapter Three Yes, I owned it. I owned England. I owned this planet. I owned this entire universe. On paper, at least. I wasn’t sure about all the specifics—my memory was still performing at a decided zero-out-of-five-stars level. But I knew people could buy dimensions. Well, technically, you bought exclusive access—managed by an unbreakable quantum…

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The Sunlit Man | Chapter Four

The Sunlit Man | Chapter Four When Nomad woke this time, he found himself manacled to a wall. No … it was the outside of a boxy ship, one of those forming the arena. He’d been chained right up against the side of the thing, pulled spread-eagle on a flat piece of metal ten feet by…

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Yumi | Chapter Five

Yumi | Chapter Five The nightmares had originally come from the sky. Painter had heard the accounts. Everyone had. They weren’t quite histories, mind you. They were fragments of stories that were likely exaggerations. They were taught in school regardless. Like a man with diarrhea in a sandpaper factory, sometimes all available options are less than ideal.…

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Tress | Chapter Five

Tress | Chapter Five Tress sat upon her porch, leaning against her mother, and watched the horizon.  She held the last cup Charlie had sent.  The one with the suicidal butterfly. Her lukewarm tea tasted of tears. “It wasn’t very practical,” she whispered to her mother. “Love rarely is,” her mother replied.  She was a…

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FAQ: Have I Time Traveled?

FAQ: Have I Time Traveled? No, you have not. This might seem counterintuitive, as you’re probably living in your own castle at the moment, commanding legions of peasants while you engage in a Better than True Life Experience™, such as inventing electricity, writing Shakespeare’s plays, or attempting to speedrun the conquest of France. While your…

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The Sunlit Man | Chapter Five

The Sunlit Man | Chapter Five Nomad cried out in frustration as Glowing Eyes turned toward the sound, then began shouting orders as he strode—tall and unflinching—back toward the podium. Weapon fire—blasts with a distinctly red-white heat—rained from the sky. Glowing Eyes shouted something else, and ember people—a good two hundred of them—came running out…

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