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“Hey, Jack, you busy?”

Jack glanced over his shoulder at Elizabeth. He was crouched before a panel in the control room of the isolated outpost that was now his home, having just finished replacing a faulty circuit board. Elizabeth, all six feet five inches of her, filled the doorway.

“Let me rephrase that,” she continued before he could respond, and a small smile came onto her pale face. “You’re no longer busy. I need you for something, and Maureen says I can have you. So you’re all mine.”

Jack closed the panel, feeling a thrill of excitement and anticipatory lust shoot through him. He stood straight up, turning and dusting off his hands. “Oh yeah?”

“Yeah,” she confirmed. “Come on. We’ve got a special assignment to drive out to.”

“All right. What do I need?”

“Grab your armor and at least one weapon, though I doubt we’ll run into any real trouble.” She paused, a frown marring her roughly beautiful features. “Well, I guess that’s kind of bullshit on this planet. It seems like it can go from zero to ten in no time flat out there. But know that we aren’t doing anything intentionally dangerous...for the most part.”

“Uh...okay,” he replied, deciding to trust her. Mainly because he was almost certain that any attempt to get her to elaborate would result in stonewalling. While she’d certainly been pleasant around and to him more than ever recently, he knew that Elizabeth was the kind of woman who you couldn’t make, bribe, or convince to do anything she did not want to do.

She was already in her own suit of dark, intimidating armor, a rifle slung over one shoulder, a pistol on one large hip.

“I’ll be in the rover,” she said, then turned away from him as he approached and began walking away, towards the garage.

He found his eyes drawn to her broad ass like metal to a magnet.

Fuck, that woman had a really huge ass. Even in full-fledged power armor it looked goddamn good. And the way she was swinging her hips, he knew that she knew he was checking out her ass. He sighed softly and headed off towards the armory, where he kept his gear. As he did, he considered the past three days.

They were…

Interesting days.

He’d rested off and on the first day immediately following his time in the mines, nursing the injuries he had sustained saving their lives. Although the meds that Sylvia had pumped him full of accelerated the healing, and he wasn’t that banged up to begin with, he was injured (and tired) enough that he was confined to bed for that day. In the morning, after breakfast, he’d at least moved to his own bed. Of course, that hadn’t kept Riley, Sylvia, and Anya from coming in and riding his dick once apiece. Twice for Riley.

Maureen had come and spent the night with him, sucking and riding him into a wonderfully pleasant sleep.

He was deeply glad to see that most of these women were happy with temporarily adopting care-giving roles, though he thought at least some of it had to do with the fact that they liked being in charge of him, even if only temporarily and in a small way.

He had hoped that Elizabeth would come visit in a similar way, but during that first day assumed that the other women had gotten in her way. During the second day however, despite coming to see him, (he had admittedly milked the resting part through almost all of the second day, but they kept telling him this was a working vacation so he figured why not?), nothing sexual had happened. She’d been friendly, and she seemed more relaxed and at ease around him than ever, but after their intense makeout session in the garage, he thought she was ready to go all the way.

Apparently not, though.

Not that he minded...well, okay. He was frustrated, but that wasn’t going to get in the way of him giving her as long as she needed.

That had been yesterday.

Today, he’d woke up feeling absolutely fantastic. Anya had spent the night with him, and that tight, fit redhead had let him hit it from the back until they both had orgasmed intensely, and then they’d fucked again in the shower.

Now that was a way to start the day.

Jack was still a little sore from the endeavor, but he was well enough to get back to work helping the women get the outpost back online. By now, Lyra, tech genius and hard worker that she was, had already completed most of the repairs with the parts they had gathered from around the region. Contracts had either been fulfilled or were on the verge of being fulfilled. At this point, most of the work left to do on the outpost was cosmetic. Giving the place a new coat of paint, repairing or replacing dented or scuffed panels, making everything look nice and neat and new and shiny again. Except for that busted circuit board, that’s all Jack had been doing since waking up. It was satisfying work, in its own way, but he was already craving more.

In more than one way.

Elizabeth had been teasing him all day long, bending over in front of him, brushing against him, actually outright flirting with him. It was a totally different side of her, one he almost hadn’t been sure existed, given how awkward she had been so far, even after they’d come right out with it about the true nature of the ‘job’ and that he not only fully intended to have sex with her, but would do so gladly. But it was really nice to see.

Maybe it would happen today, on this ‘trip’.

After making out, she had told him soon.

How soon was soon?

Again, he didn’t intend to push the issue, he was just...so fucking eager! He was sure that some of his attraction to Elizabeth was generated simply by the fact that he hadn’t had her yet, and now she’d been teasing him, hitting on him, making it worse. But he was genuinely very attracted to her. He didn’t care that she was big and strong and twice his age and headstrong. Honestly, he really liked all those things about her. He thought she was attractive in a number of ways, physically and with regards to her personality.

Jack finished pulling his armor on and ran a quick check of it. This stuff had saved his life more than once now. He laughed softly at that particular thought. Twice now a mission on this ‘vacation’ had ended in him risking his life for the sake of others. He didn’t regret it, and he wasn’t new to it, but he was surprised that it was coming up as often as it had. As he decided to just take his pistol with him and holstered it and pocketed his ammo, his suit told him that it was fine. Lyra had worked hard to fix it after the incident and after checking over it himself last night, he was not surprised to find she had done an excellent job.

His radio came to life as he turned to leave the armory. “Any day now, Jack.”

He sighed softly. “I know you can’t stand to be apart from me for too long, Elizabeth. I’m on my way right now. Try to keep your panties on.”

“I’m not wearing panties,” she replied, and his response died in his throat. They’d been quipping back and forth just recently and she was clearly skilled. She’d found his weak spot, his kill-code, as it were. To be fair, it was obvious. All she had to do was say something sexual and he’d just freeze up a little, not sure what to say.

It was weird. If he’d already had sex with a woman, then it wouldn’t trip him up like that. If Maureen or Riley said something like that to him, he was fine. Mostly. He was still getting used to these mature women and their overtly sexual nature.

But if they hadn’t been together yet…

Elizabeth laughed at his silence. “Cat got your tongue?”

He tried to fire something back. “I’m sure there’s a clever phrase regarding pussies and tongues in there somewhere, but I can’t think of it right now.”

Now it was Elizabeth’s turn to be silent. He hoped he was having the same effect on her. So far, he really liked the way their relationship was building. It felt nice and steady and, most importantly, organic. It wasn’t quite organic with the others. Sure, there was a real connection there with all of them, and he was very happy with where he was with each woman, (even Lyra, despite the fact that they hadn’t slept together yet either and sometimes it seemed like she was avoiding him), but something just felt different about Elizabeth. He hoped he wasn’t getting too involved, but he felt like there was something more, something deeper beginning to form and grow between them.

A closer connection.

He supposed, once they’d made love for the first time, he’d be closer to knowing if she felt the same way, or if he was just imagining it.

That was totally possible.

Jack came into the garage and found the rover ready to go, the garage door open. He slipped into the front passenger’s seat and buckled his safety belt.

“All right, we’re good to go?” Elizabeth asked.

“Check,” he replied.

“Perfect.”

She brought them out of the garage and then began driving away from the outpost, heading to the southwest. It was a nice day out. After that last heavy rainfall, the sun had come back with a vengeance, shining down and almost blaring through the windows. But there had been a cool breeze out, and there were clouds on the horizon. They’d been drawing closer all day long. He hoped that it meant more rain. Even a light rain would be great.

They drove in silence for the first few moments. Inside the rover, the atmosphere was also pleasant, though he could sense an undercurrent of tension in Elizabeth. Both of them had their helmets off and he studied her pale features out of the corner of his eye. She was staring straight ahead, sitting up straight, both hands on the wheel. Her vividly red hair was pulled into a ponytail. By now, it was no secret that Elizabeth had some difficulty with social situations. Especially, he imagined, if it involved guys she liked.

And she’d made it clear by now that she really liked him.

“So, Jack,” she said after almost five minutes, “I want to talk.”

“What about?” he asked. He had no intention of making this difficult for her.

“Us,” she said. He waited. She glanced briefly at him, then laughed softly.

“What?” he asked.

“I just...I’m sorry. I keep half-expecting you to be grinning like a shark, ready to take advantage of my...emotional attachment to you.”

Interesting. She hadn’t said sexual attraction, she’d specifically said emotional.

“That won’t happen,” he said.

“I know. By this point, I know. I trust you. I’ve just been...laughed at, preyed upon, fooled, taken advantage of, whatever, several times in my life at this point. So I get defensive. It’s, you know, it’ll take a bit to deactivate my defenses.”

“I’m willing to help in any way I can to facilitate this process...and not just because I want to stick my dick in you,” he said.

She smiled and laughed, this time it sounded happier. “I know. I believe that, too, actually. That’s one of the things I actually really like about you: you’re genuine. I feel like you’d tell me the truth to my face even if it pissed me off.” She paused. “You stood up to me after that last mission. Sylvia was right: I find that to be an attractive quality.” She paused again, then took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Okay, so what I want to talk about. I’m basically ready to try sex. Like, tonight for sure. And don’t worry, I don’t feel pressured at all. Honestly it’s hard not to just pull over and fuck you right now. Seriously, you make me fucking horny.”

“You do the same for me,” he murmured.

She swallowed, cleared her throat. “My point is: I’m ready. But before that, I want to enjoy something nice with you that isn’t sex or a dangerous mission. Something that isn’t work.”

“So what are we doing out here?”

She smiled. “I scouted out an area while you were down for the count, found a great place to have a picnic and just, you know, chat. Get to know each other more. Does that sound like something you’d like?”

“I’d love that,” he replied.

She smiled again and this time blushed a little. “Uh, good.”

They drove on.

“Okay, here we are.”

They had driven along for another ten minutes across relatively flat, desert ground, passing stands of some of the alien trees that sprouted from the cracked earth, and at one point they passed through a small, narrow canyon.

Now, Elizabeth was slowing them down as they edged closer to a vast cliff drop. Once they got within a few dozen yards of it, she stopped, then turned the vehicle around and began backing up towards the edge. She stared at a navigational screen built into the dashboard to guide herself. Despite everything, how confident she appeared, how sure he was in her abilities and the tech they were using, Jack found himself slightly nervous.

He’d always had a bit of a thing about heights.

“Don’t worry,” Elizabeth murmured as she slowly crept them backwards, as though reading his mind, “I know what I’m doing and I already checked the place out.”

“I’m fine,” he replied.

She gave a small laugh. “It’s okay to be nervous. I’m not going to think less of you. You’ve already proven that you’re brave to a fault.”

“Is it a fault?” he asked.

She didn’t answer for a few seconds, instead focusing on the screen. Finally, she seemed satisfied and brought them to a halt, then put the rover in park.

“I guess it depends on your perspective,” she answered, killing the engine. She looked at him with her intense green eyes. “You’ll save a lot of people, but you’ll get yourself killed one day. But I can already tell you know that, and you accept it, to a certain degree.”

“Any Marine does,” he murmured.

Now she frowned. “No. Not every Marine. Most, but not all. Some get through bootcamp and discover they just don’t have the right stuff when it comes to actually for real dangerous situations. Boot weeds most of them out, but not all of them. If they’re lucky, everyone will survive the encounter and they’ll get out while they can. And some Marines are selfish. But that’s just-” she paused.

“What?”

“I was gonna say human nature but it’s clearly not related to only humans. I’ve seen brave, selfless aliens and I’ve seen selfish bastard aliens. I guess it’s nature. Sometimes. But you didn’t leave because you couldn’t handle it, I can tell that.” She paused again. “Come on,” she said, undoing her seatbelt and throwing open her door, “check out the view.”

He got out with her and walked around to the back of the rover. They were about ten yards from the edge of the cliff. Jack felt his apprehension rising but pushed it back, telling himself he’d be fine. Plus, he had to admit, it was a hell of a view.

“Wow,” he murmured as they came as close to the edge as they were going to get.

The drop was maybe two hundred feet, and the view extended for probably two hundred miles. The vast desert landscape, broken up by canyons and cliffs and mountains and forests of those cacti-trees, seemed to extend off into forever, most of it beneath a cloudy slate-gray sky.

“Wow indeed,” she said. He glanced at her. She was staring intently ahead. “You know, I used to find places like this when I was on a new world. Got to be, if there was time of course, I’d go looking for some unique place. A location with a great view or a unique landmark or some other interesting quality to it. I wanted to find at least one on each planet I visited. Did it for most of them. And not once, not a single time, did I take anyone with me. I was always alone.”

Jack immediately took the meaning in that: This is special to me, I’ve never shared it with anyone else, but I am now sharing it with you.

“Thank you for bringing me,” he said.

“You’re welcome,” she replied, a small smile on her face. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She looked serene. “Let’s eat lunch.”

They walked back to the rover and she popped the trunk. A metal case was locked in place in the rear cargo hold. She disengaged the lock, brought it closer, and opened it up. Inside, he saw that it was a refrigerated unit. There were two thermoses, some fruit, and a pair of sandwiches.

“I remember you saying you were partial to turkey and cheese, so I made you one.” She paused. “I hope you appreciate the significance that I made you a sandwich.”

He laughed. “Uh, yeah. I do. You’re doing a lot for me today. I really do appreciate it. Thank you,” he replied as he took a seat, his legs hanging over the edge of the cargo space’s floor, dangling just a few inches above the ground. She sat beside him with the case between them and they took a moment to get their food out.

It felt strange having a picnic in full combat armor, but at this point he was used to doing a lot of things in full combat armor.

“So how do you feel about your decisions now?” Elizabeth asked after a few moments of silence and staring out over the vast view.

“Better,” he replied. “I think I’m at that stage where I’m actually feeling kind of good about my decision, but I’m also afraid that the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet. That there’s something to this I just haven’t thought about yet.”

“Oh fuck, I know that feeling,” Elizabeth muttered. “I can’t say for sure, obviously, but I think you made the right choice. I think you’ll be happier.”

“I hope so...how about you?” he asked.

“I’m…” she laughed, a little bitterly. “Scared.”

“Why?”

“I left the Marines, went into private security, and I fucking hated it. And I was burned out of the Marines, just sick of it after so long. And I...don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do for the rest of my life.”

“Oh. Wow. That’s...yeah, that sucks.”

She chuckled. “Sorry to dump all that on you. I know an existential crisis isn’t the best thing to have on a date.”

“Is this a date?” he asked.

“Yes. This is a date. We’re on a date right now. A romantic one.”

“Oh. Okay, cool. I was hoping it was. But, Elizabeth, if there’s one thing that has been made clear to me about this trip, and about this group of people, it’s that we’re all...sharing. We’re sharing in pleasure, to be sure, but I think Maureen also meant for us to share each other’s pain, too. In whatever form that takes. I’m very reluctant to let anyone share in my pain...but I’m glad to share yours, if you want. Even if it’s just listening, or if it’s something more. I don’t know. Whatever you want. I really like you.”

She was looking at him intensely now. If there was one thing about Elizabeth that stuck in his mind besides her size, it was the intensity of her eyes. It had to be a combination of just how green they were, but also how focused she appeared.

“You’re right,” she replied, looking away, down at the cracked dirt beneath them. “That’s a good point. And I...agree with you. I’ve spent decades keeping how I feel locked up in a vault. And I know it’s not healthy, I just haven’t had many people in my life that I’ve honestly felt I could open up to. Honestly…” she hesitated and looked at him with a strange expression. One that oddly conveyed suspicion and guilt. “It worries me, how much I trust you.”

He considered that, then nodded. “Yeah, I get that. You’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Feeling like this is too good to be true.”

She laughed softly. “You being so understanding just makes it feel like more of a trap.” He began to respond but she cut him off. “I’m not saying I think you’re trying to trap me in any regard. The fact that we’re here, doing this, means you’ve mostly earned my trust. I guess I just feel like I want to discuss this kind of stuff before we take our clothes off. I want you to know that I feel like...you get me. Kind of on an organic level. Like how some people just mesh, you know? We gel. We have chemistry. And I really like it…”

“Okay,” he said, hesitating suddenly. It felt like this was actually leading somewhere all of a sudden, and it occurred to him, abruptly, that there was another reason Elizabeth might have been acting awkward recently. That she had something to say, something that she thought might upset or concern him. “Where is this leading, exactly?”

She blushed and looked down at her meal. “This is what I meant,” she murmured. “You pick up stuff about me fast. Normally I’m total poker face with most people.” He waited. She sighed. “So basically, before we have sex, there’s something I have to tell you. Because it would be irresponsible not to. Sex with me is going to carry a certain...risk.”

“What kind of risk?” he asked, wondering what in the hell she was talking about.

“Because of how much I like you, how well we get along, other factors, I’m positive that the risk of me becoming very emotionally attached to you after having sex is high.” She paused. Wow, he thought, that’s an oddly clinical way of spelling it out. But he appreciated the direct words. “What I’m saying is: I can’t offer you what all the others can, not for sure. I can’t, for sure, offer you casual sex. It might...get serious.”

He was silent for several moments, looking at her. “Are you okay with that risk?” he asked finally.

She bit her lower lip. “Right now?...yeah, I-I think I am.”

That surprised him. “Elizabeth-”

“I could be wrong,” she said quickly. “I’ve been wrong about this before. I really like you. A lot. But it might pass. Which isn’t a reflection on you! I could just...this could be a passing infatuation.” She hesitated. “Is this too honest?”

“No,” he said. He reached out and put a hand over the back of hers. They had their gloves off, so he enjoyed the sensation of her smooth, hot skin. He felt a brief shiver rush through him as they made skin contact. He thought he felt something similar happen to her. “Elizabeth, however the conversation turns out, I appreciate that you chose to tell me this. I imagine it must be difficult to talk about. But I genuinely appreciate you just straight up telling me this stuff. As for the risk, as you call it, from where I’m standing right now…”

He paused. Sometimes, it felt like decisions were made for you by some internal force.

“I can live with that,” he said.

She smiled. “You’re sure? We could be going through a brutal, bitter breakup three years from now.”

“Or we could be fucking like rabbits every day for the next several decades, in unexplored realms of bliss.”

She laughed. “I like those odds.” Then she grew a bit more serious. “I won’t be mad though, if you change your mind. I just want you to know that. You don’t owe me anything.”

“I don’t know, I think I owe you a sandwich at least,” he replied.

She smirked. “No, this is repayment for that amazing burger you made for me on the way out here.”

“Oh...right. Say, you’re not one of those people who ‘keep score’ in a relationship, are you?” he asked.

“Fuck no.”

“I didn’t think so.” He felt some of the tension go out of him. Not all of it, but most. That was not what he’d been expecting to talk about.

Riley really was fucking spot on about him and her.

“So, now what?” Elizabeth asked.

Over the course of their conversation, they’d managed to finish their meals. At first, Jack wasn’t sure what to say, then it abruptly occurred to him exactly what to say.

“Oh, uh, hold on, be right back,” he said, getting up and returning to the front of the vehicle. There, he grabbed his helmet and came back with it. “Something a few of you ladies asked me about was if I had any hobbies. I used to. Photography. My helmet has a camera built-in and I’ve decided to try resurrecting the hobby, and this seems a great place to do it.”

“Oh yeah?” Elizabeth replied.

He glanced up. She sounded oddly defensive. “Uh, yeah. I was gonna take a picture of the view. Did you wanna-”

“No,” she said immediately, her voice sharp. He continued looking at her. She looked away and sighed. “I’m sorry. I just-having my picture taken is a whole thing. My parents were really fucking just obsessed with it and I always fucking hated the way I looked and I just, you know, I hate it.”

“It’s fine, I won’t ask again. Sorry,” he said.

“It’s okay. And thank you.”

Jack nodded, then put on his helmet, locked it in place, and walked towards the edge. He looked around for a bit for a good shot. From what he remembered, he hadn’t exactly been great at studying up on photography, but people had been surprised by his ability to frame shots. He’d also been oddly good at screwing with the hues and color grading and applying tweaked filters to make it look even better. Finally, after a minute or two, that feeling hit him as he spied a flock of those large, weird bird creatures in the far distance, flying against the backdrop of a mountain range. He zoomed in a bit, waited a few seconds, and when the time felt right, took the pic.

“Okay, I got it,” he said, walking back, taking off his helmet. “I’ll screw around with it when we get back and I get some time.”

“I’d like to see it when you’re finished,” Elizabeth said. “I didn’t mean to spoil the mood.”

“You didn’t,” he said, sitting back down beside her. He offered his hand. She smiled and took it. He laced their fingers together. “I understand how you feel. I’m not upset.”

“You’re probably the sweetest guy I’ve met for a long, long time. Certainly you’re the sweetest Marine I’ve met,” she said, a genuine, beautiful smile creeping onto her face.

“I found it to be conducive to making people happy,” he replied.

She laughed. “And getting laid?”

“Well...yeah, it helped. Sometimes.”

“Probably more often than you think.”

They sat like that together, looking out over the immense plains of the alien world, holding hands in the back of the rover, and just enjoying each other’s silent companionship.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (November 2020)

THE CHANGELIST

So, I had a bit of a revelation last month.

In short, it was this: Not putting collections in the Kindle Unlimited is stupid, and I should fix that immediately. The result of this was a SHITLOAD of changes that needed to be made, as it made the Quickies unnecessary, which caused many, many problems. I spent most of the middle of October making all these changes. For those who are interested, here is a COMPLETE LIST (I hope, I really hope I haven’t forgotten anything) of all the changes that have been made.

So I think that’s everything, but this really fried my brain, so I could have missed something. I spent a long, long week implementing all these little updates and fixing any errors I found and then going through and sweeping up any OTHER errors I made in the process of doing all this, but even still I’m sure I missed something. The long and short of it is that now, everything I have to offer is either freely available, available through the Kindle Unlimited, or available in paperback (with the exception of some random stuff like Valkyries or Kyra’s game). If you have any questions, please let me know.

NOVEMBER NEWS

First let’s get October stuff out of the way. There isn’t enough leftover to make its own section so we’ll deal with it right here.

And that’s that. I finished Haven. Finally! I know some people wanted it to keep going and I sure could’ve, but it was time to lay it to rest. Don’t worry, though. You haven’t heard from the Marauders for the last time, and the situation in my Post-Apocalyptic Universe is only going to get worse as times goes on. Stalkers and rippers and vipers are only the beginning. But that’s for later.

So given that all my short story loose ends are tied up and Quickies aren’t a thing anymore, what’s going to happen now?

  • LIKE A FINE WINE 3 is going to come out this month. I have the cover art for the it and I should definitely be able to get it out before the end of the month.

  • LIKE A FINE WINE 4 will almost certainly come out before the end of 2020. The cover art is presently in progress, which means that as soon as 3 gets done, I’ll immediately get going with 4. Due to how I have shifted my perspective, there won’t be a Like A Fine Wine Collection #1, just a Complete Series at the end. In fact, it will be the first series I’ll have written (as Misty Vixen) with zero bonus content for the Complete Collection version.

  • So what about parts 5 & 6? It depends entirely on my cover artist. Basically, she’s super busy, and again, I don’t want to change cover artists. But even if the stars align, even if I got all the cover art and worked my ass off, I seriously doubt I’ll manage to wrap up this series before 2021. So basically, I’ll feel the situation out and see where we are as I begin wrapping up part 4. What will likely happen is I’ll have to put the series on hold and wrap it up later in 2021 as time allows my cover artist to make the covers.

  • Now, what about A WARM PLACE? Well, I have finally decided to commit to it, and by that I mean commit to a release date. PRELUDE is already written, edited, formatted, and covered. It’s ready to go. Theoretically I could launch it right now. Instead, I have decided to wait until December 15th. That is when it will go live. I want it out to build a bit of hype for the main event. A WARM PLACE will launch January 1st, 2021. If at all possible, I would like to launch a new A Warm Place the first of each month. I don’t know how well this will go. At present, A Warm Place 1 has its cover and is probably about 80% done. I fully intend to finish it this month. Ideally within the next week, at which point I will launch directly into A Warm Place 2. I have already begun the commission for its cover. Basically, as of right now, my number one focus is A Warm Place.

  • Finally, the serial fiction. As of right now, I am still waffling. For a little bit there, I thought I was for sure on this. But now I’m wondering if it’s not a good idea. Would it be overloading myself? Would me, and my work, suffer from the extra work? What about other projects I should be getting to? There’s only so much time in the day. For now, I’m going to continue thinking on it. We’ll see how I feel after finishing Like A Fine Wine. Maybe I’ll decide the time has come for Demoness VI? Or maybe it’s time to finally get some more incest fiction written? I don’t know. It’s a tough call. Right now, the best course of action appears to be a test-run. I write one series and see what that’s like. Although one series is a lot of work. Like I said, tough call. We’ll see where I’m at after Like A Fine Wine.

So that’s all the news I got.

Haven Is Complete

 
 

Wow.

I can’t believe that we’re here.

Although I can’t remember the exact day I began working on the series, I think it can be narrowed down to sometime during March 2019.

Haven can trace its roots all the way back to February 2016. Back then, my body of work was much smaller. I knew that I wanted to launch another universe, something that was post-apocalyptic. So I thought up an idea that would fulfill this notion, as well as what was then more strongly my brand of ‘regular human guy fucks hot inhuman women’.

What I came up with was the groundwork for what became the Post-Apocalyptic Universe.

I launched a pilot episode for a series called Homestead, but it didn’t do well and I didn’t feel good about it, so I took it down and let it stew for awhile. A long while, apparently. Finally, in July 2017, I launched what would be the first series in this new universe: Sex & Survival. Throughout that trilogy, I couldn’t shake the feeling that this wasn’t a sustainable universe. Zombies and jerks with guns just weren’t an interesting enough consistent threat for a protagonist to face. After I wrapped up Sex & Survival in early 2018, I let it sit for awhile and focused on other things.

Then, an idea came to me, out of nowhere: what if the inhumans started turning into zombies, too? Much more dangerous zombies. That, combined with the fact that I really wanted to write some kind of winter survival story, meant that Haven was born.

Even when I first started writing it back then, I didn’t think it would be more than a trilogy. But after writing the first book, I began to get a notion that it was going to be bigger, and I should let it be bigger. A lot bigger. So I kept going.

Honestly, I definitely could have kept going. In a way, the last two titles, 8 & Epilogue, really make it feel like there’s more to come. But I think Haven needs to be allowed to rest. David and the others need to rest, and settle into their lives. Eventually, it will be time for someone else to pick up the mantle. And don’t worry, we’ll hear from David and the girls again before this is all over.

At present, I’m debating about what to do next for the Post-Apocalyptic Universe. Although I have three solid ideas, I’m debating about which should come next.

But as for what comes next for me, as a writer, right now? That’s A Warm Place. Also wrapping up Like A Fine Wine (if possible, as mentioned previously, it may take longer than anticipated due to circumstances beyond my control.)

I hope you enjoyed Haven! I had a lot of fun writing it.

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Here is the first chapter of Haven - Epilogue.

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“I can’t believe you stored stuff up here,” David complained as he looked around the musty, dusty interior of the hospital’s attic. “This place is awful.”

“Yeah, tell me about it,” Katya replied as she shoved the last of the gear into her backpack. “Stop bitching and hurry up. Sooner we’re done, sooner we’re outta here.”

“Yeah and why don’t you shut up or I’ll put my-” David stopped himself, feeling his cheeks beginning to heat up.

He glanced over his shoulder at Katya, who was looking at him.

“Forgot I wasn’t one of your submissive girls, huh?” she asked, looking amused.

He laughed awkwardly. “Yeah, sorry.”

“No harm, no foul,” she replied with a shrug, and went back to work. As he did so as well, transferring the excess medical supplies to his pack, she spoke up again. “You must be something else to those chicks who are into being dominated.”

“That’s what they tell me,” he replied. “It doesn’t come up too often.”

“Interesting.”

They went back to working in silence. The place smelled mustier than usual because it had rained recently and the roof leaked.

It had been two weeks since they had successfully overthrown the Marauders and killed (hopefully) every last one of them. Although he imagined at least some must have managed to get away. And ever since then, he’d been working.

Working, working, working.

With little downtime. Although a few days ago Lara and Cait had madehim relax and take a long break at a hot spring Lara had found. That had been...very gratifying. He knew he was due for another break of that capacity soon, because after that he’d just gone right back to it. It seemed like there wasn’t an end to the list of things that needed to be done in the wake of the attack. Not just in picking up the pieces of the Marauders’ assault and Lima Company’s betrayal, and not just the fact that their building of Sanctuary hadn’t been completed, nor even all the stuff they regularly had to do just to stay alive in this undead-ruled nightmare world.

No, in the wake of the attack, the Marauders had shown them just how vulnerable they truly were to an army like that.

It meant that they all had to band together, buckle down, and prepare for the worst.

Right now, they were still in the process of picking up the pieces. At present, David was wrapping up something he’d been negotiating and finally implementing for a little while now: the doctors were finally going to officially join Sanctuary and Haven. There’d been a bit of negotiation when it came to who was going to do what and go where, but they’d finally got it all sorted out. Although the group was getting broken up, David had the impression that they were all kind of happier where they were now.

“Okay,” he said, zipping his backpack up as he shoved the last of the gear into it, “that’s it.”

“Yep,” Katya said, doing the same. He turned and looked at her. In the gray light filtering in through the windows, she looked as dangerously beautiful as ever. Today she wore cut-off cargo pants and a combat vest she’d liberated from one of the dead Lima Company traitors. He noticed that her muscles were more defined than before, and, given her new position and the potentially vastly increased threat level they were living in now, he didn’t blame her for going harder in her workouts. They were all preparing for the worst.

“Let me take one last look around, you go see how Vanessa’s doing,” Katya said after a moment’s consideration.

“Okay,” he replied, pulled on his pack, and headed downstairs.

Given the instability of the attic, it seemed best not to bring the eight foot goliath woman up there. He found her in what had not too long ago been her bedroom. She was sitting on her bed, looking out a window, two duffel-bags and a backpack on the floor at the foot of the bed.

“Got it all?” he asked.

“Yeah. And I double-checked everything. We’re good. That’s the last of it. How about up there?” she asked, standing and facing him. Even now, even after all the time they’d spent together, he had to fight not to take a step back when she stood up quickly.

She was very intimidating.

“Katya’s wrapping it up now,” he replied. He looked around. “You going to miss this place?”

“Sort of,” she replied after a moment, also looking around. “Lots of memories here. Some bad, a few good, most neutral. But for the most part, I feel like this is an upgrade. I always felt a little, hmm...tied down, I guess, when I was living here. Donald wanted me here so often. I found myself wanting to go out and explore so many times, but I couldn’t. Now that I’ve got a new job...I feel good. I like what my future looks like.”

“Even if it might mean fighting off an invading army?”

Vanessa grinned fiercely at him. “Come on, David. You know I’m basically a Valkyrie, right? I live for the fight.”

“Yeah, that’s true,” he replied. “Goddamn I’m glad you’re on our side.”

“Always,” she said.

“Okay,” Katya said as she descended the stairs, “that’s it. The last of the gear is accounted for up there. How are we down here?”

“Done,” Vanessa said, pulling on her pack and picking up one of the duffel-bags. She handed the other to David, who accepted it.

The trio headed downstairs and outside. David knew the place wasn’t completely cleared out. It was now the site of a cache of guns, ammo, food, and emergency medical supplies. But otherwise, it was empty of gear. They had been coming and going for three days, hauling all the useful stuff out of it. Everything from the medical equipment to the bio-matter generator to the personal effects of the people who had once called this home.

“All right then,” Vanessa said, “I guess I’m off to start doing preliminary work on the hunting lodge. I know I’ll see youaround,” she added, looking at Katya, “but David,” she leaned down and gave him a long, lingering, pleasant kiss, then straightened back up, “come visit me, yeah? You’re like legit the only guy I know who isn’t scared of me and can actually get it up for me.”

“I, uh,” he laughed awkwardly, “yeah. Yeah, I’ll definitely come visit.”

She smirked. “I can’t believe you aren’t more suave with all the fucking chicks you’ve banged over the past eight months. Christ, you’ve got one of them pregnant...I mean as far as I know.”

“One,” David replied firmly. “Just Cait. I’m sure.”

“Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Although I’ve heard a rumor that’s about to change...” She stared at him intently, raising an eyebrow in inquiry.

“Uh...” he blushed fiercely and rubbed the back of his neck. “I’m not...at liberty to, uh, discuss that. If it’s even true,” he muttered.

Vanessa laughed. “Okay, so you’re terrible at lying. Obviously you’ve agreed to knock someone else up, but that’s fair. I mean I’m sure I’ll find out eventually. Either way, good luck. I hope you have healthy offspring.”

“Thanks,” he said.

“You’re welcome. Farewell for now.”

With that she turned and began walking away. He found himself staring at her absolutely enormous ass until she was out of sight.

“Come on, we’ve got to get this stuff back home,” Katya said. As they started walking away from the hospital and back towards Sanctuary, she spoke up again. “So it’s true, huh? You really are going to get another woman pregnant? Who is it?”

“I can’t say,” he replied.

“It’s not an inhuman, obviously. Lara can’t get pregnant, if I remember right. Neither can Ashley, if I overheard that conversation correctly...”

“Katya,” he said, and in a tone that made her look directly at him. “It’s private, okay? If she wants to discuss it, she will. It’s her business if she wants it to stay private.”

“Okay, okay, fair enough,” Katya replied. She smirked suddenly. “I’m impressed.”

“That I’ll have gotten two women pregnant?”

“No. I mean, kinda. No, more that you’ve got a lot more confident. You just flat out stood up to me. You wouldn’t have done that a few months ago. I know I intimidate you. But I’m impressed,” she explained.

“You like that I just shut you down?” he asked.

“Yes, honestly. You’re right, I was being rude. But more importantly, a leader should be unafraid of standing up to people. Even people they like. Especially people they like. If someone you like is doing something bad, or making a mistake, you need to be able to tell them plainly. So yes, I like that you have the guts to do that.”

“Well...all right then,” he replied, unsure of how else to respond.

She laughed. “You’ll be a fine leader, and father, David.”

He sighed. “I hope so. I used to just have the luxury of worrying over whether I’d be decent at being a parent or not. Now it’s like...are we going to fucking survive the next year? The next six months? The next week?”

Katya grew more serious. “David, whatever happens...you’ve got an army of dedicated people, working together, backing each other up. Hell, some of us are practically killing machines all on our own. Me, Vanessa, Ellie, Akila, Azure, Lara, fuck, Xenia, apparently.”

“Yeah, did you ever get more out of her?”

“No. She’s a titanium vault,” Katya muttered. She shook her head. “Whatever, point is: we can handle it. Whatever it is. Trust that. Believe that. I’m committed, David. I wouldn’t be if I didn’t believe in all of this. In all of us.”

“Thank you for that,” he said quietly. “I really appreciate it.”

She laughed. “I know. All I ask for in return is you find time to pencil me in your busy schedule of banging women.”

“I will always find time for you, Katya. You are...something else,” he replied.

She laughed again. “Something else, huh? You’ve got a fetish for scary women.”

“Apparently,” he agreed.

They walked on, back towards Sanctuary.

The settlement looked different than it had that night they’d made their final assault on the Marauders and the traitors of Lima Company.

David silently marveled at the changes that had been made in the following weeks. The biggest difference was that they had gone ahead and extended the fence to encompass the entire village, instead of just a few sections of it. That, combined with the fact that a nice little side effect of the Marauder occupation being that undead activity was way, way down, meant that people felt safer. And since people felt safer, they also felt more motivated to work, more focused. So repairs were coming along nicely on the dozens of old houses, stores, and other structures. And Jennifer had been hard at work getting the plumping going.

Over a dozen houses had running water now.

The mood was different. Some of it good, some of it bad, but probably the strongest thing that had come out of it all was a sense of unity, a sense of togetherness that had not been there before. Every time he noticed it, he appreciated it tremendously.

He and Katya walked up to what had once been a simple little clinic. In the new world, so many things got repurposed. So many things turned into homes that had been something else entirely. It was interesting to see something get resurrected into what it had once been. It was the new hospital, their new locus of medicine.

“David! Katya!” April said, looking up from the desk she was standing over as they entered the room. She was smiling and it was so good to see her smile so freely. “You got it all?”

“We got it all,” Katya confirmed, setting her pack down on one of the tables they’d set up in the entrance lobby. Everything was a scattered mess at the moment, but David had no doubt April and the others would get it sorted soon.

“Good work. Excellent work,” April replied, coming around the desk and wrapping David in a hug as he set the bag and his backpack down. She gave him a pleasantly enthused and long kiss on the mouth. She must be in a great mood. He’d noticed that recently. Ever since she’d been promoted to leader of the medical personnel at Sanctuary, she’d been happy and driven. He thought it would make her more anxious, but he supposed it was a measure of how much she’d changed, how far she’d come, that it didn’t have that effect on her.

“All right, lovebirds, with that responsibility crossed off the list, I need to go check in with the fishers. I want to make sure that guy is doing what he’s supposed to,” Katya said.

“You still don’t trust Cole?” he asked.

Katya sighed. “Shit, I dunno. I guess I do, as much as I trust most people. It’s just gonna take a bit to shake the stigma of having worked with Lima Company. But I do want to go down there and check on a few people. That’s my job now anyhow.”

“All right. I’ll see you around,” David said, disengaging himself from April and giving Katya a hug.

She, too, gave him a long kiss. “You will see me around. Bye you two.”

With that, she slung her backpack on again and walked out the door.

“I’m so glad I don’t feel like she’s my competition,” April murmured.

“Me too. I imagine she would be extremely intimidating.”

“Yep.” She looked back at the tables of supplies. “Will you help me get this shit sorted? Like, I need it at least basically sorted. Bandages, antibiotics, painkillers, just toss them into boxes. Frankly, I’m amazed at how much we have and I can’t even begin to get a proper inventory until we have it all sorted. Then I can start figuring out which ones need to be used first, what can go where...”

“Yes babe, I can help you,” he replied.

“Thank you.”

As they set to work, he considered the new structure of the doctors. Though really they were all closer to medics now.

Donald had relinquished control of the group. In his own words, he was, after all that had happened, more than thrilled to ‘retire’ to Haven. He now shared a cabin with Ann, the older woman who had been among the first to move into Haven, who was acting as a bit of a den mother for the children without parents. David thought Ann and David had started dating and figured it seemed like a good match. He was now the resident physician for Haven and he seemed as pleased as David had ever seen the man about his new job.

Katya, being a combat medic by trade and more prone to fighting and keeping on the move, had given herself the role of wandering medic. She would travel between the settlements to offer whatever help was needed, as a fighter or as a medic, and also keep an eye out for any people who might be off by themselves and need help.

Vanessa, who was really just a badass with a fighting skill-set, had moved on entirely from the group and was now involved in an operation to bring the hunting lodge outpost back online and turn it into a defensive forward station to serve as an early warning if there was another attack. David would be visiting her and the other people involved with that project quite soon, after he’d finished his business in Sanctuary.

The three remaining personnel, Janice, the stoic if somewhat sour jag and one of the only qualified surgeons in the entire region, was now second in command directly under April. He had been concerned that she might want to step up, as she’d already been second in command under Donald, but apparently she was happy in the position. The other two, the nurses, Peter and Amanda, had been happy to continue serving in their accustomed roles under April.

“So, how’s it all going?” David asked.

“Good,” April replied. “But busy. Very busy. I’ll be glad when the preliminary bullshit is out of the way. Right now Janice, Peter, and Amanda are all here and working very hard to scrub this place down. We’re going to need a very clean environment to practice medicine safely. Jennifer’s also visiting. She’s getting the generator and the other equipment set up. I’m hoping we can have the place cleaned and straightened up by tomorrow, as well as be ready to beginthe process of a proper inventorying of everything we have access to, but new stuff keeps coming as people find more stuff the Marauders abandoned. I know I shouldn’t be complaining but it’s like I make some progress and then more stuff comes in and just-ah! It’s annoying. But good annoying.”

“That’s good at least. I can hang out for the rest of the day and help you get it done. What about the future? What about plans after you get it set up?” he asked.

Her eyes gleamed with excitement when asked that. “I’ve been going around, looking for people who have any experience with or knowledge of medicine, or, barring that, an aptitude and willingness to learn. Practically speaking, I need more staff. But beyond that, I want to run classes. I want to teach everyone basic medicine and advanced medicine, so that we can all far more effectively take care of ourselves and each other.”

“I think that’s an excellent idea,” he agreed. He couldn’t help but stare at her and smile.

“What?” she asked, noticing his look.

“I just...I’m so impressed by you. Amazed, honestly. I love how far you’ve come. I love seeing this side of you. You’re ambitious and kind and enthusiastic and confident. I just...love you. I love you,” he said.

She was smiling and looking down now. “I love you too, David,” she replied quietly. She looked up at him. “Honestly, I was inspired by you. I mean, I was inspired by a lot of people. Cait and Evie and Ellie and Lara, so many amazing, brave people in our lives. But I think of you now when I’m scared or uncertain. I think of what you’d tell me, what you have told me. It helps. I’ve changed a lot, even I can see it. I think the biggest change that occurred was...at some point, I realized that I actually can do things. I can and I should get things done, make things happen. I don’t know if this clinic is going to work, but I think it is.”

“I think it is, too,” David replied. “And you won’t be alone.”

“No,” she agreed, “I won’t be.”

They fell back into a happy silence as they resumed their work.

Quickies Are Gone

So, as I said I was going to do, I removed and basically dissolved the Quickies. For ultra dedicated fans, here is a list of notes on what happened to everything.

QUICKIES #1

QUICKIES #2

  • LYDIA HAS SOME FUN has been added to the website as free content.

  • SCALES & FUR has been absorbed by the first Wanderlust novel, as it’s more or less an epilogue anyway. The eBook & paperback versions of Wanderlust + Wanderlust - The Complete Series now reflect this.

  • REUNION & THE QUEEN’S SECRET have been added to Wanderlust - The Complete Series, both eBook & paperback.

  • DEATH FETISH & LEATHER & LACE have been added to the website as free content.

QUICKIES #3

QUICKIES #4

And that’s everything. Holy shit that was so much work, a lot of just miserable reformatting and reuploading and just blah.

Although I am no longer committing to write follow-ups to EVERYTHING, I will at least go through with follow-ups to Blind Date and The Pale Redhead. They’ll be out before the end of the year as free content on the website.

I’m still in the process of updating everything and I’m also suffering through brain burnout right now. I’ll likely need some rest and recovery time. So if there are some inconsistencies, that’s why. Although feel free to tell me if you notice anything weird, like dead links or outdate information. I’m always happy to be told about that.

FREE SHORT: Roommates With Benefits 2

This story is a follow-up to one of the four novellas I wrote for my Starter Pack.

In it, Scott and the three absurdly beautiful, highly sexual paranormal women that he now lives with get a new roommate. She’s very sexual, very submissive, and looking to be broken in by all of them, especially Scott…


Home.

For the first time in a long time, Scott felt like he had a home.

Although his parents had been very good to him and raised him well enough, at some point in high school, their house hadn’t quite felt like home so much as ‘his parent’s home’. He didn’t resent them or living there, but it never quite sat right. When, for the first time, he moved out of his parent’s place and in with a trio of crazy hot paranormal chicks six months ago, it had really felt like he was moving into someone else’s place, even though they’d given him his own room and been very welcoming to him.

And fucked him into oblivion.

But oh how things had changed since then.

Scott slowly walked through the house that he and the three women who were now not just a part of his life but basically his entire life had just purchased.

At the moment, all three of them were out.

The house was mostly a sprawling, single story, with an appreciable basement that was his and Haley’s domain now.

In the months that had followed his moving in with an elf, a succubus, and a vampire, and learning that the entire reason they had asked him to move in was to use him as a living fucktoy, his relationship with each of them had deepened. But his relationship with Haley, the elf, had deepened far more.

He was in love with her.

And she with him.

Although by now Rayne the succubus and Jocelyn the vampire were both very fond of him, took him to bed nearly every day, and trusted him with a lot, he knew that his relationship with Haley was different. They all knew it and, thankfully, they didn’t mind. In their own way, he thought that both Rayne and Jocelyn enjoyed the small but certain distance between them. They were both individualistic loners who happened to have found people they liked enough to live with. Haley was asocial not quite by choice, but more by disposition.

While she loved Rayne and Joce as her best friends, she hadn’t yet found someone she truly connected with, someone she could call a true lover.

Until she met Scott.

He was still very surprised by that.

Haley was older than him, far smarter than him, smarter than all of them as a medical professional who, thanks to her anxiety, operated solely online, giving out medical advice. She was amazingly beautiful, though he was still having to convince her that she didn’t live in Jocelyn’s and Rayne’s shadows.

In the weeks and months that had followed his introduction into their life, Scott had slowly acclimated to his new reality.

But it had evolved in a way none of them was quite expecting.

When she had concocted the plan to lure a young, inexperienced human man into their apartment, Rayne had thought they would have a roommate that they took turns fucking sometimes who, hopefully, wouldn’t cause any problems.

But a lot more had happened.

Each of them got along with him greatly, and his relationship with all three of them had developed so much.

Rayne, who appreciated him not just because he was young and inexperienced and therefore was very easy to please sexually, but also because he was a website designer like her, had found a kindred spirit in that regard. They began collaborating on projects and eventually discovered that although she had far more experience and technical knowledge, Scott had an edge that she didn’t. In some way that neither of them could pinpoint or describe, he could add something to her design that would accentuate it in a way that seemed to bring it to another level. By now, they had formed their own small company, combining their clients they had separately gathered and reaching more than ever before. Well, for Scott, anyway.

For Jocelyn, the techno-making, weed-smoking, gamer vampire, he was a best friend she had never quite had. Although Rayne and Haley liked the things she liked, she’d always felt that neithe rof them did quite in the way she did. Scott found that their pastimes aligned quite well, and that he had a particular love of her music. He loved listening to it before anyone else did, and occasionally he even had a somewhat insightful suggestion. They had fun-filled gaming sessions that sometimes lasted for two days at a stretch.

For Haley, he seemed to get her on a level that no one else in her life really had. And the gift he gave her, without even really trying, was a profound one: after they had really begun dating, she had discovered that he didn’t really trigger any of her anxiety. She had discovered that she could relax and open herself up to him in a way she hadn’t been able to before. She found that, since he had come into her life, she could go out with more ease. Although her anxiety was still with her, he had stilled the waters somehow. They took long, peaceful walks together through the parks across the city, holding hands, talking about anything that came to mind, or sometimes not talking at all for hours at a time, just enjoying the atmosphere and each other.

After about five and a half months, the four of them had decided that their life needed to get a bit bigger. Which, functionally speaking, meant two things. The first was that they wanted a bigger place. Hence the house. Rayne was extremely efficient when she wanted to be, and so she had got set up with a realtor, found a house, negotiated a price, bought it, and gotten moved in within two weeks. They had recently finished getting everything set up. Rayne had her room and their office set up on one side of the house, Jocelyn had her sound studio, bedroom, and gamer area set up on the other side, and he and Haley had dominion over the whole basement.

They had just made it their bedroom, since there was nothing they could be doing that they wouldn’t mind Jocelyn or Rayne seeing.

The second thing that the change had meant was: new roommate.

They had been batting around the idea for the past month or so. It was actually Haley’s idea. Certain aspects of their relationship had developed more than others. Namely: him screaming at her and beating her during sex. She really liked it, and Scott had discovered that he really liked it, too. He’d been a little weirded out by it in the beginning, but it just felt good and right, and he trusted Haley and she trusted him and it had just become...natural.

And so much fun.

They’d invested in a few more toys to help out.

But Haley had found herself not only wanting to add someone new into the mix, but specifically someone who she could watch Scott abuse. They’d tried it a few times with Rayne and Jocelyn, but neither of them seemed as into it as Haley and she wanted someone who was really submissive. Rayne and Jocelyn had, however, discovered that they were actually kind of into the dominating side of things, and that they also wouldn’t mind having someone else around, another sexy woman to fuck and hang out with.

And so the search had begun.

Interestingly, Scott was not allowed to join in the search. Haley had requested that specifically. She wanted their very first meeting to be when they were first going to have sex. He was, as far as he was concerned, understandably nervous about this. What if she didn’t like him? What if he didn’t like her? What if they weren’t sexually compatible? Or compatible as roommates? He was pretty easygoing, and he thought he was decently easy to please, but these were still possibilities. However, they all assured him that they would be able to find a perfect fit.

After all, they’d found him, hadn’t they?

Scott still wasn’t sure how much of that was coincidence, but he trusted them.

He slowly moved through the house, looking at it all. Not much had survived from their initial apartment. They had an ‘out with the old, in with the new’ kind of mentality. As in, we’re getting rid of all our old clothes and furniture, donating it to people who could use it, and buying new shit. He could definitely get behind the theory, but fuck, he was still getting used to the fact that not only were the three women he was now building a life with were rich, but thanks to them and his own hard work, (and luck), he was pretty well-off now, too.

Besides not really having to pay much in the way of bills, he wasn’t just giving the occasional helpful suggestions to Rayne to make her website design pop. He was designing sites just as much as she was. Well, maybe not at that rate. Rayne was a paranormal, and they had inhuman amounts of attention, endurance, and willpower. When she got into something, she could focus on a project for twelve to even twenty hour stretches. But he did pull his own weight, even though at this point they had flat out told him that as long as he satisfied them sexually and was nice to them, he didn’t need to worry about money.

Scott ended up near the center of the house, the living room. Off of it was the final bedroom, the place where their latest addition would be living if she decided she wanted to move in with them. He flopped down on the couch, turned on the TV, and tried not to be too nervous. At present, all three women were out picking up the new girl.

They had found someone.

They wouldn’t tell him anything about her, save for the fact that she was hot, she was submissive, and she was a paranormal.

He imagined that they thought the mystery would tantalize him more, and damn if it wasn’t working. He found himself obsessing over this new woman. Was she a type of paranormal he was more familiar with? An elf? Vampire? Succubus? Or something different? A witch? A werewolf? A siren? Maybe something a little more exotic? A Valkyrie? He admittedly wasn’t too familiar with all the various types of paranormals out there. What did she look like? Would she like him? How into being submissive was she?

He imagined on the same level as Haley at least, and she was really into it, he had learned.

That was definitely a rabbit hole he’d been going deeper into for months now.

It had been a lot of fun, honestly, and deeply gratifying in a way he hadn’t initially quite realized something sexual could be.

Scott perked up as he heard a car approaching. They lived in a quiet neighborhood on the other side of town now, so cars weren’t extremely common, but he waited, listening anyway. It was getting closer, and...yep, pulling into the driveway. Shit. This might be it. He waited, resisting the urge to hop up and run to the door and look out the window. If they had the woman with them, and she was as submissive as they made her sound, it was in his best interest to appear dominate. Or, at the very least, not desperate or needy.

He was still learning about this whole dichotomy, but he at least got the basics.

Now the engine died, and he heard car doors opening and closing. Then conversation, growing closer. Someone laughed. All women’s voices, and he definitely recognized three of them. Okay, fuck, it was happening.

His heart fluttered in his chest.

They stopped outside the door and he could almost, but not quite, make out some of the conversation. He waited. They lingered, talking a bit more quietly. Now it was harder than ever not to jump up, run over, and tear the door open. But he made it. He sat on the couch, watching TV, pretending like he wasn’t sitting there tense in almost desperate anticipation up until they finally opened the door and came in.

“And...there he is,” Rayne said.

“How’d it go?” Scott asked, still facing the TV.

“We’ve brought her,” Haley said.

“Bring her to me,” he replied, and hoped that he wasn’t leaning too hard into it. But Haley had given him a little advice before leaving that he should be a bit distant, a bit dominate, from the beginning.

It was…

Not normal for him.

“Yes, sir,” he heard Haley murmur.

“What was that?” he asked.

“Yes, sir,” she repeated, louder.

He waited as the two women walked around in front of the couch. They stood just off to the right. He continued staring at the TV for a moment before looking over. Scott had to be careful to keep his surprise off of his face.

The woman standing beside his girlfriend was hot.

This woman wanted to fuck him? Wanted to go to bed with him and be dominated by him? Seriously? Well, if that was true, he was going to have to do a great job.

She had very pale skin, with teal colored hair that was down, framing her smooth, seductively attractive face. She had on some makeup, accentuating her eyes and lips and cheeks. She wasn’t too tall, maybe five and a half feet, probably five four or five. She was about average weight for her height, but she had some big breasts. They were in good view, as she was wearing a low-cut, short black dress. He noticed she also had a black choker collar on. She held her hands together in front of her and was looking down.

“What’s her name?” he asked.

“Lila,” Haley said.

“Lila, huh?” he murmured, still studying her. After a moment, he got up and slowly walked over to her. Reaching out, he put a finger under her chin and gently raised her head. She looked up at him with beautiful brown eyes. “What exactly is it you’ve come here to do, Lila?” he asked, looking down at her.

She swallowed. “To pleasure you...sir,” she murmured softly.

“Is that so? You think you can do a good job?”

“Yes,” she replied, a little more firmly. He raised an eyebrow. She looked down again.

Scott looked over at Haley. “So, Haley, do you think she can do it?”

“Yes, sir,” she replied.

“All right, prove it. Get on your knees, Lila. Get your tits out,” he said.

“Yes, sir,” she replied immediately, dropping to her knees and pushing the straps off her shoulders.

This was not how he envisioned his first meeting with a new roommate going but, well…

It was pretty cool.

She pulled her dress down and her big, pale tits tumbled out and holy fucking shit they were hot. They were hot! Big, perky, round triple-ds with such sexy pink nipples and a dusting of freckles. The way they bounced and settled as she pulled her dress down…

He felt a thrill of lust shiver through him.

Scott stepped a little closer to her. “You know what to do.”

“Yes, sir,” she whispered, reaching out and beginning to undo his pants. She undid his belt, go this button undone, unzipped his zipper. He was already hard by the time she pulled his boxers down. She wrapped her fingers around his stiff cock. “You’re really big.”

“Stop talking and get to work,” he replied.

She nodded and began to lick slowly across the head. It was hard not to groan. In a way, that was kind of the downside to his role in this particular sex game. He didn’t really like maintaining the kind of disinterested distance, didn’t like pretending that she wasn’t doing a great job pleasuring his dick. Right away he could tell she was good at this stuff, especially when she stopped licking all over his cock and slowly slipped it in between her red, red lips. She took it all the way inside, to the back of her throat, then deeper, and then she swallowed.

Oh fuck how good that felt.

“You might have brought me a good one,” he murmured, looking up at Haley. She smiled. Lila swallowed again and then began bobbing her head. He looked over at the other two ladies in his life. Rayne and Jocelyn stood behind the couch, watching him intently. Jocelyn was smirking and Rayne looked really turned on. No doubt she was catching something of a sexual contact high from this, being a succubus.

And the fact that they were all watching was making the whole thing better.

Twice now they’d invited someone else into bed with them, and, by extension, Scott. He’d had a one-night stand with a tall, redheaded werewolf chick named Lucy who had blown through town two months ago. She was an old friend of Rayne’s, a rowdy, rough woman with a somewhat crazy demeanor who fucked like demon, especially in her werewolf form. She’d been nearly seven feet tall as a werewolf and had fucked him nearly into a coma. It had been very satisfying. The other woman was another elf who lived in town, an outgoing, bubbly, tall and slim brunette named Piper. He’d made love with her five times now. Sometimes she came over, looking for sex. She was a friend of Jocelyn’s who shared a love of music.

They’d gotten on very well, and she could fuck pretty good.

“Make me come, Lila,” he said, though he was pretty close to it. Goddamn could this girl suck dick. What was she? Not a vampire, he hadn’t seen any fangs. Maybe a werewolf? Not an elf, no ears or glowing golden eyes. A siren? Succubus? He didn’t think she was a succubus. He wasn’t sure how he could tell, but he’d spent enough time around Rayne that he thought he could. Obviously she was no Valkyrie.

Either way, she could suck some serious dick.

He watched her lips slipping up and down his cock, coating it in her saliva, her eyes closed. Her mouth was so hot and wet, such a wonderful pocket of pleasure. He found himself thinking about what it was going to be like to tie her to the bed and fucking just pound the shit out of her pussy, what she’d look like naked and staring up at him, taking his cock…

He groaned as he started coming in her mouth.

Scott put his hand on the back of her head. “That’s right, suck it out. Swallow it, you little slut,” he said, and she moaned as she kept sucking.

The pleasure blasted through his body, hitting him in waves, as he came into the mouth of a woman, a sexy woman, he had just met.

Even after six months with these three sex-obsessed paranormals, this was still pretty unreal and just fucking awesome.

Scott let go of her head as he finished coming in her mouth.

“Did I do good?” she asked after taking his cock from her mouth.

“Put it back and go wash your mouth out,” he replied.

“Yes, sir,” she murmured, immediately putting his cock back and fixing his pants.

He looked at Haley. “Show her where, then take her down to the bed.”

“Yes, sir,” Haley replied immediately.

Lila rose to her feet and let Haley lead her deeper into the house, towards the basement. When they were gone, he looked over at Rayne and Jocelyn.

“So...how was that? Too much?” he asked.

“No! It was perfect,” Rayne replied immediately. “That was exactly what that submissive little slut wanted. Trust me, she just got a very good first impression of you. She really likes you.”

“She’s never met me. I mean, besides just now.”

“We told her a lot about you,” Jocelyn said. “Showed her pics, a few of those videos we took of us fucking.”

“Oh, so you’ll show her fucking everything about me, but won’t tell me a goddamned thing about her,” he muttered, crossing his arms.

“Hey, she’s taking the bigger risk here, I think it’s only fair. Plus, come on, one look at her and we could tell, there’s no way you aren’t going to be into her,” Rayne replied.

He sighed. “Fine.”

“Do you like her?” Jocelyn asked.

“I mean, so far, yeah.”

“She’s sweet,” Rayne said. “She’s friendly, relaxed, laid back. I think we’ll all get along great. Provided this sex session goes well, I think she’ll probably move in.”

“Well, let’s do it, then. Because I’m still horny,” he said.

Rayne snorted. “When are you not?”

“Says the succubus.”

“I didn’t say it was a problem,” she murmured, smirking.

“Come on,” he said.

They began to head downstairs. It was tough not to hurry, because he really wanted to dive into that pussy of hers.

“What kind of paranormal is she?” he asked.

“Oh, right. A witch,” Rayne replied.

“Cool.”

“What are you gonna do to her?” Jocelyn murmured.

“You’ll see,” he replied, heading down the stairs.

“You’re getting better at this,” Rayne said.

“Apparently.”

They walked downstairs and found Haley and Lila standing at the foot of the bed. Lila was already completely naked. He looked her up and down as he walked slowly over her. She had a smooth, pale body, with a nice bit of padding on her hips and thighs, and a small, well-trimmed bush of teal hair. Was it naturally that color? Or did she dye her pubes, too? Either way, it was a nice color that worked pretty well on her.

She was looking down again, her arms at her sides. She still had her choker collar on, but otherwise there was nothing on her wonderful body.

Scott came to stand in front of her, studying her.

“Turn around,” he said.

She did as she was told. She had a really hot ass, with a nice, firm curve to it. He reached out and settled his hands on her hips, ran them back around to her ass, gave it a squeeze. Then he slipped his hands up and around, cupping her breasts and groping them.

“You’re going to be a good fucktoy, aren’t you?” he asked, speaking quietly in her ear.

She shuddered intensely. “Yes.”

He squeezed her tits a bit more tightly. “What was that?”

She groaned softly. “Yes, sir.”

“Get on the bed, now.”

“Yes, sir.”

She climbed onto the bed as he let go of her. “On your back,” he said. Lila laid down on her back. He looked at Haley. “You know what to do.”

“Yes, sir,” she replied promptly, and began the process of attaching the bindings to Lila’s ankles and wrists. One of Haley’s favorite things to do was to get tightly strapped down to the bed so that she couldn’t move at all and have him fuck the living shit out of her.

Scott stripped and climbed onto the bed with her. He looked down at her and reached out. He slowly ran his hand over Lila’s breast, then settled it on her slim neck, where he gently grasped it. “What’s your safe word, you little slut?” he asked.

She swallowed. “Pineapple.”

“Good.”

He gave her neck another squeeze and then got in between her spread open legs. He ran his fingertips along her thighs and she groaned and shivered. Haley was finishing with her final binding now. Scott studied Lila. She really was a very beautiful woman, she had that kind of natural beauty that some people were lucky enough to be born with. Although as a paranormal, that wasn’t luck anymore, it was just common. Witches were naturally very attractive, and they had a lot of ways of accentuating that beauty.

She laid with her legs spread open, ankles tied to the bedpost, her arms spread wide, hands pointed towards the top posts, each post with a tight black strap coming from it, adjusted for her height. He could see her tensing, testing the bonds. She could barely move at all. Her breasts were swaying as her chest rose and fell a little more rapidly now. She was excited, her pale face flushed slightly, her eyes a little wider.

He slapped one of her thighs and she gave a little cry, one he’d heard from Haley many, many times now. The cry of surprise, pain, and delight. He slapped her other thigh and she jerked and cried out again. He was already hard as rock and throbbing in anticipation again at the sight of this beautiful naked witch. He was going to fuck her brains out, but she seemed to be enjoying the teasing, so he kept it going for a bit longer.

Scott slipped a finger into her and she moaned and writhed, pulling against her bonds. God, she was so fucking wet and tight inside. Fucking her was going to feel incredible.

“Are you ready to get used like the slut you are?” he asked, shoving his finger deeper into her.

“Ah! Yes, sir!” she moaned.

“I don’t know if you deserve it,” he replied. “Maybe I should just fuck Haley, instead.”

“No, please!” she replied immediately. “Please fuck me!”

“Hmm.” He pulled his finger out and brought it up to her face. She opened her mouth. He stuck it in and she began sucking on it. “How badly do you want it?”

So bad,” she replied immediately.

He had to admit, this was an utterly surreal experience. Scott had never thought that he would meet a woman, let alone a seriously hot paranormal, and have her literally begging him to fuck her within twenty minutes.

He pulled his hand back.

“Do you need it?” he asked, getting closer to her now and rubbing his cock against her pussy. He could feel her heat and wetness.

“Yes!” she cried. “I need it!

He responded by slipping into her. Lila let out a long cry of pleasure as he penetrated her, pushing his cock all the way into her pussy. Good fucking lord did she have a tight pussy, and it was so fucking slick! It felt absolutely incredible to slide right in there, and once he was comfortably inside of her, he started fucking her good and hard. The bed started to rock and soon he had the headboard banging against the wall.

That was something that Haley had specifically wanted, and Jocelyn and Rayne had been okay with it. He had thought it a little odd, but he had to admit, there was a certain extra satisfaction to it, in a weird sort of way.

OH, MASTER YES!” Lila screamed.

“You like that, you little slut?” he asked, and slapped her across the face.

She let out a loud cry. “Yes!”

“Louder!” he snapped and slapped her again harder.

Yes!

“Louder, bitch!” He slapped her with the other hand as he kept drilling her pussy.

YES! I LOVE IT SO FUCKING MUCH!” she shrieked at the top of her lungs.

His dick felt like it was being absolutely bombarded by total hot bliss, covered and coated in nothing but pure pleasure. He spent a few minutes just enjoying her pussy, reveling in the feel of it sleeved tight around his cock, bathing it in total ecstasy, pushing him towards an orgasm. He was going to bust such a huge load inside of her pussy.

But not yet. There was something he wanted to do, and something he had an idea that she wanted him to do.

“All right, you little bitch,” he said as he wrapped his hands around her neck.

She gasped and stiffened. “Please...” she moaned.

“Shut up,” he replied, and began to squeeze.

She started to twist and moan as he choked her. Her body tensed and writhed in the same way that Haley’s always did when he did this to her. Personally, he didn’t really understand the appeal of being choked, but on the other hand, he also didn’t understand the appeal of choking, and yet he liked doing it a lot. Almost within twenty seconds of him laying his hands on her throat, he had this tight little witch coming all over his dick, letting out choked, gagging screams. After a bit longer, he let go and she began yelling her head off.

OH YES IT’S SO GOOD OH FUCK!” she cried, incoherent with pleasure.

He kept fucking her brains out, feeling her vaginal muscles fluttering and clenching around his cock, and that was too much for him, he triggered and immediately began spraying her insides down with his seed. He let out a loud groan as he started to come inside of her and their voices joined together in mutual ecstasy as they shared a united orgasm. The pleasure blasted through him as he came deep and hard inside of her, filling up her paranormal pussy. The fact that she was crazy hot and a woman he’d never fucked before only made the orgasm that much better.

It lasted for what felt like a long time, and then they were left panting together, sweaty and nude and shuddering in post-orgasm bliss.

Scott knew he couldn’t linger, though. He made himself get up and began the process of slowly undoing her bonds. Neither of them spoke as he freed her, though she did smile up at him. Once he had her freed, he scooped her up and carried her to the bathroom. She laid against his chest, pressing her head against it. Scott carefully maneuvered into the shower, turned it on and, once the water was a good hot temperature, stepped into the stream. She let out a satisfied sound as the water began to cascade down onto her.

“How are you?” he asked after a bit.

“I’m very happy,” she murmured. She shifted slightly. “I can stand now.”

He gently released her as she put her feet down, and as soon as she was standing, she immediately wrapped him in a hug. He hugged her back, holding her to him.

“So...I’m Lila,” she murmured.

“My name is Scott,” he replied, rubbing her back. “It’s very good to meet you.”

She laughed softly. “Yes, it is. I have to say, your domination game is good, but your aftercare game is fucking on point.”

“Haley’s given me a lot of opportunity for practice,” he replied. “Turn around. I’ll massage your shoulders.”

“Oh yes,” she said immediately, disengaging from him and turning around. He began to massage her shoulders and she let out an appreciative groan.

“I didn’t get a chance to tell you earlier, but you are so beautiful, Lila.”

“Thank you! You’re very handsome yourself,” she replied.

“So, if I understand everything right, you want to live with us?”

“Mmm-hmm.”

“And you want to be, uh...you’re looking for...”

She laughed softly. “I’m looking to be used like a living fucktoy by all four of you, especially by you.”

“Oh, wow...awesome. And that was basically a test run?”

“Yes. And based on that, if you all will have me, I’d love to live here. That was really all I needed. And fuck did I ever need that.”

“Then welcome to your new home,” he said, and continued to massage her shoulders.

Yeah, this was going to be awesome.

An Experiment & Canceling Quickies

Have you ever come to the sudden realization that you’re doing something simply because that’s the way you’ve always done it? And there’s no real reason not to change it? And, in fact, there might be a few good reasons to change it?

I think that’s where I’m at right now with my collections.

When I got started, way back in 2014, I tried to be experimental and try new things, but I had a kind of clear goal with my collections. At one point, they were an experiment to me: write six episodes, collect them in trilogies, then collect two trilogies into a Season. And it worked. Like REALLY well. Back then, those Complete Seasons were what paid my fucking bills for the most part.

So I think that, combined with the uncertainty of how Amazon felt about putting something in the KU twice (once as a stand-alone title and again in a collection) really locked doing it just like that into my head. It wasn’t until recently that I even had the notion that I should probably be unlocking that bonus content I generated for the collections.

But it kind of just hit me today, for some reason, that I should stop doing this. Tons of people are releasing their Complete Trilogies and Complete Series in the Kindle Unlimited alongside their stand-alone titles.

So that’s what I’m going to do as an experiment. For now, I’ve made the first titles in Hellcats & Desire free, and I want to see how that does. But for the rest of my titles, I’ll be slowly working them into the Kindle Unlimited.

This will include the bonus content short stories.

Which is why I am going to cancel the Quickies. Since the beginning, even when I was excited about the idea of Quickies, something has felt off about them. Kind of…I don’t know, sloppy, I guess? Asymmetrical, unbalanced, uncertain. Just off. Although I’ve generated a fair amount of new content, it just hasn’t been feeling right. It’s been kind of fun writing for old stuff, but it’s also be unusually taxing. I’m terrible at writing short stories, to be honest. I don’t enjoy them and they slow me down way more than you’d think they would, and almost no one seems to be buying them. Not that I blame people.

So this is what I’m going to do. With the exception of Hellcats & Desire, given I can’t enroll them in the KU since they’re on other sites and part of the First Title Free experiment, I will take down the Quickies and integrate any bonus content into the Complete Trilogy and Complete Series and put them in the KU once they are updated. I’ll also probably drop at least some of them to 99 cents to help with visibility.

What does this mean for the immediate future? Well, since I’m putting a halt on Quickies, I’ll dive right into Haven - Epilogue.

The Misty Vixen Newsletter (October 2020)

I’m going to try and make the Newsletters a little more organized and structured. Hopefully this is a bit more visually appealing and maybe helps me clean up my sometimes meandering way of giving information.


IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR THE NEAR FUTURE

Since people tend to want to know the most important stuff first, I’m just going to put this right here, right now.

I'm making some changes to my overall plan. Yes, again. Something I’ve learned is that not only is having a writing career a litany of constant reevaluation and consideration, but also of evolution and experimentation.

But don’t worry, my biggest plans remain intact for the moment. Although certain events beyond my control may force my hand in ways I’ll explain below.

  • THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT CHANGING: Still going to finish the Haven Series pronto. Ideally before November arrives. I’m also going to for sure get Like A Fine Wine 3 and Like A Fine Wine Collection 1 out following that. And Quickies #5 & #6 will be released somewhere in there as well.

  • A RETURN TO SERIAL FICTION: This is probably the largest change. I’ve been thinking long and hard about this, as not only the urge to write serial fiction, but the practical benefits of it keep coming back to me. I set some time aside and really considered it in September. I asked myself: Why did Crystal Candy fail? Two reasons. The first and foremost was that words written as Crystal Candy were worth approximately 1/3 as words written as Misty Vixen, as I mentioned in a previous update. But I could fix that if I released serial fiction content as Misty Vixen. The second reason was how much time/energy it was taking up. But since June I have been working on A Warm Place alongside my other projects, and with a few exceptions, I’ve settled into a steady rhythm of putting decent working into two projects almost every day. So I can see putting in enough work on serial fiction to put out about one episode per week. This would also deal with the burnout problem, allowing me to start several different serial series (I would work on them in blocks of 4 essentially, pause them on Episode 4 or 8 or 12 whenever I need a break). It would give me much more freedom to work on new projects I’ve been itching to write (that fantasy caveman story? Sci-Fi/Horror? That Eyes in the Dark series? I’ve got a lot of ideas I’d love to get started on). It would also give me a chance to write some projects that don’t quite work as a series of novels, but would be perfect for a serial. For example: Fans of Haven, remember that journal David found of the man sent across the countryside to activate a series of radio towers? I’ve really wanted to write a series in the Post-Apocalyptic Universe with a similar premise, but I didn’t feel there was enough there to warrant novels. As a serial, it would be perfect, however. At the moment, I’m still toying with this idea, and I haven’t ultimately decided if I’m going to do it. But I’m leaning towards yes at the moment. For now, I have to work on other projects.

  • A WEBSITE STORE: So here’s some advice I once received as someone who makes my money by being hosted by another, larger site: send your fans to a website you control as much as possible as soon as possible. The reason for this is because you never know when that big site might arbitrarily decide to fuck you over. Like Amazon almost did to me in 2018, and has done in a few other ways since then. I’ve been pondering how to sell stuff through my website, directly to fans, with as few middlemen as possible, for awhile now. I began seriously considering it in 2018, when they started fucking me over, but for awhile, I couldn’t come up with an idea of what to sell. Not putting my works in the Kindle Unlimited, which demands exclusivity, cuts MAJORLY into the earning power of anything. However, I finally have an idea: incest fiction. I basically can’t sell it anywhere else. Technically Smashwords accepts it, as well as a few other places, I think, but really it’s hard as hell to sell anywhere. However, I have a lot of ideas for incest stories, and judging by the reaction I’ve gotten, at least some of my fans want to read it. So yeah. Also, in the future, I could see taking some time and maybe writing some website-exclusive shorts. So this is something I’ll want to seriously start exploring in 2021.

Those are the big changes. Hopefully they made you happy. If you’ve read this far, at least read the next thing, it’s also important.


RECYCLING COVER ART

I wanted to address this here and now, front and center, so that people don’t think I’m trying to pull a fast one on them.

I have been updating some of my covers that I gave ‘real’ backgrounds (i.e. actual photographs, not drawn backgrounds), because essentially I didn’t/don’t have the time/money to get a full character+background or because other circumstances forced my hand in the past or are doing so now.

There are three primary things that motivated this that I will talk about below.

  • COVERS ARE COSTLY. Even a great deal can be somewhat pricey. My Patreon definitely helps, as do any other donations and the occasional sale I get through Smashwords. And although I’ve been doing decently for a writer, I wouldn’t call myself rich. Plus, I have to be honest, I’m just not great with money. Never have been. I’ve gotten better, but still not great. Combine that with the fact that I have had to get new covers made for my ENTIRE library TWICE and I have spent literally thousands and thousands of dollars on cover art. Not even joking or exaggerating.

  • COVERS TAKE TIME. Even a quick cover artist can take weeks to get a project done. Besides the fact that it’s a whole character and whole background, they have other projects and their own life. I write fast, because that’s the tempo that Amazon and other people who have ghost writer farms to pump out fucking 500-page novels every week dictate. I can’t really afford to wait and sit on a novel for weeks or months. This doesn’t come up often, but it has come up enough (more recently) that I’ve had to make a call.

  • UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. I’ve worked with a few different artists since going looking for some, and all of them have run into problems that mean they may be out of contact for weeks or even months, or maybe be unable to work. I’m understanding, but as I’ve said, this has forced my hand a few different times. Especially recently. This is actually another reason I want to return to serial fiction. If it comes down to it, and I can’t launch because I don’t have a cover (and don’t kid yourself, launching with a shit cover is novel suicide), I’ll have a Plan B.

I hope this clears things up.

Here is a list of titles that now have or will have recycled backgrounds or otherwise reused assets.

  • ANY COLLECTION (Any Complete Trilogy, Complete Series, or ? - ? Collected collection 100% reuses assets to save on time/money. I figured this would be obvious but just in case it wasn’t I’m pointing it out now.)

  • DEMONESS - FUN IN THE FOREST (Background is reused.)

  • DEMONESS - THE FORMER PRINCESS (Background is reused.)

  • DEMONESS - FAREWELL FOR NOW (Background and model are reused.)

  • ALL OF PARASEXUAL (When it was originally conceived, Parasexual was sort of a quick & dirty series. Both to save time/money and also to get the projects out faster, I only had characters drawn. However, I have since decided that they’d look better with full cover art, and there were enough quality backgrounds created that it would work.)

  • THE SEX & SURVIVAL TRILOGY. Kind of the same thing happening here. Originally, I was going to have characters and backgrounds created, but the situation changed and I really just want it done and over with. So I’m in the process of getting the final two characters drawn, and I already have other backgrounds ready to go.

  • THE VALKYRIES TRILOGY. Same situation as above essentially.

  • QUICKIES. This much should be obvious.

  • MISTY VIXEN COLLECTED. Yeah, I wasn’t spending like 100$+ on a paperback that probably 5 people are gonna buy ever.

I think that’s everything. I hope everyone understands. And because of that I hope people will understand when I say that HAVEN 8 + HAVEN - EPILOGUE WILL HAVE REUSED ASSETS. Without getting into details, the artist has become very busy and as it is, they’re having a hard time even finding time to do Like A Fine Wine covers, and I don’t want to just switch to another cover artist in the middle of a series, and I don’t have enough assets for Like A Fine Wine to recycle for future covers. I made the call to not ask for new Haven covers to try and get a jump on Like A Fine Wine covers. Although I’m not sure how this is going to play out. Although I have the cover for Like A Fine Wine 3, and enough assets for the first Collection, I’m not sure if I might outpace the cover artist for the series in the near future. It also isn’t necessarily feasible to just keep writing the novels in the hopes that the covers will catch up, because I NEED to publish what I write pretty much as soon as it’s done (with a few rare exceptions). Gaps in publishing are very bad, the algorithm punishes me for this. This is another reason a return to serial fiction is enticing.

Hopefully this covers everything related to this. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in a comment or an e-mail.


SEPTEMBER WRAPUP

Like A Fine Wine 2 is out!

Quickies #4 is also out!

I also finally got around to putting together a full, hyperlinked Chronological Bibliography page. This page lays out every single title I have ever written for my four Shared Universes. All the novels, novellas, and short stories. The short stories are the ones I imagine escape people the most given how all over the place I’ve been about them. I wanted one, single, absolute, centralized page to give fans a very straightforward and clear-cut picture of not only every title, and not only where they can be found, but what order it’s all best read in. Although if anyone has any questions or requires further clarification, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll be glad to help. At the moment not all of the links have been created because some of them don’t exist yet, basically the Quickies I have yet to write.


BACKGROUND UPDATES

I had another ‘go through and re-update all my titles’ spree because enough little things had accumulated.

  • Perhaps the most important thing I did was make sure that all the stories that have been covered by my Quickies releases have been updated with information and links to reflect this. So for example the Complete Series and Complete Trilogy packs have a notice at the beginning that if you don’t want to repurchase the entire trilogy just for the bonus content, you can instead just go buy the Quickies instead. Also the end of a series or the back of stand-alone titles now reference follow-up shorts that have since been written (provided they are out, still a few to go.)

  • When I went through and created the customized titling to be inserted into the actual Kindle files for all of my titles, I for some reason did not also do the same thing with my author name. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me then, but it has now. So that’s probably the biggest, most obvious change.

  • Social media links. I have now inserted links to my website, twitter, and given my e-mail address at the beginning of every title. The reason for this is pretty much what I said above: I need to send fans to an area that I control as much as possible.

  • Although some jerk person left a rather rude 1-star review, I did get a new piece of knowledge out of it: I’m apparently fond of the phrase ‘per se’, which is latin. And I seem to have been misspelling it the entire time. After learning that, I went through and fixed all examples of it across all 50+ titles.

  • I also found out that some of my paperbacks have an extra page near the back that just says ABOUT ME and then is blank right before the real About Me page. No idea why this was. All the Haven novels had it and some others did as well. I fixed all the instances I found, but I didn’t check them ALL.


WRAP UP AND THE NEAR FUTURE

Okay, so that’s about it. Now I’ll just cover what’s happening in October, or at least what I hope will happen.

  • I’m hard at work on Haven 8. I intend to have it out within the next week.

  • I will then write half of Quickies #5, and then write and publish Haven - Epilogue as quickly as possible.

  • I will then finish and publish Quickies #5, then write and publish Haven Collection #3, and with that the Haven series will be completed in its entirety. (Well, technically there will be ONE more bonus short story in Quickies #6.)

  • Over the course of the rest of the year, I will be making the first title in every series, (except for Like A Fine Wine) free. This is an experiment I’m doing to see if it will help get my books to more people. As of right now, HELLCATS & DEISRE are free!

So, four things I will attempt to publish in October, all while also working on A Warm Place. It’s going quite well, actually, I’m at about 65,000 words, or roughly the length of an average Haven novel, and there’s still several more big scenes to write. If I keep up the pace, I should have it wrapped by the end of October as well. I have to admit, it’s going to be hard not to publish it. But I may end up changing my mind and launching A Warm Place if things go wrong with Like A Fine Wine. I’m not sure, we’ll see. I am also going to likely begin work on my first serial fiction, provided my ultimate decision, (which will come soon), is yes. If it is, I already know which one I’m going to work on: Eyes in the Dark. I really want to write a modern day apocalypse horror. Not a post-apocalyptic story, but a story where the apocalypse is presently happening.

And that’s it for this Newsletter. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Haven 8 Preview

I’ve been hard at work on Haven 8 and it’s coming out fairly smoothly I feel. At present, it’s about halfway finished and I’m hoping for an early October release.

Here is the first chapter.

If you want to read the first two chapters, you can do so here on my Patreon if you are a 1$/month Patron.


He was having a nightmare of some kind, and his head was a throb of pain that renewed itself with an electric shock of agony every few seconds or so.

David had an impression of people screaming, fires burning, ashes and embers and smoke spraying into the hot night air.

He caught ghost images of muzzle flare and then someone’s head snapped back in a spray of blood as the life was blown out of them.

He heard someone screaming his name.

Gunfire, so much gunfire.

Then darkness.

There were more nightmares, and more confusion.

An incoherent miasma of pain, shot through with anxiety and fear.

In his head, he saw Cait, and Ellie, and Evie, and April. He saw many others. Sometimes hurt. Sometimes captured.

Sometimes dead.

He couldn’t tell what was real and what was nightmare.

He drifted for what might have been hours or weeks.

Darkness came, again and again.

“Cait!”

David sat bolt upright, grimacing in pain as he moved and immediately began to survey the area around him. He had no idea where he was and yet...it was familiar. Somehow. Inside. He was inside a building. His abused mind hunted fervently for details, but mostly just to see Cait. Cait’s beautiful, pale, smiling face.

He sought her reassuring presence, the way he did when he was having nightmares some nights and he would wake up from them and she would be there, or someone would be there to comfort him, to hold him, kiss him, tell him he was safe, make love with him until they both had come and then were pulled back down into sleep.

“David.”

Someone was here. Someone familiar.

He heard footfalls behind him and twisted around, staggering to his feet.

“David, no, don’t try to stand-” Evie said.

Too late. He cried out as he collapsed into a heap on whatever he’d been laying atop. It felt like a nest of blankets and pillows. His whole body ached, but mostly his head hurt. He winced, getting to his hands and knees.

“David, please,” Evie said as she crouched beside him. “You need to drink this.”

“Cait? Where’s Cait? Where’s April?” he asked, panting, gasping almost.

Drink this, David,” Evie insisted, a bottle of lukewarm water being held up in front of him. He took it because he wanted to know the answers to his questions, but also because he suddenly felt like he was dying of thirst. Hunger, too. And he had to piss terribly. He rearranged himself in a sitting position, then downed the entire bottle of water.

“Where?” he demanded after he’d finished.

“I think they were taken, I can’t know for sure,” Evie replied, sounding as worried as he felt. He looked at her. She looked pale and messy and miserable.

“What happened?” he asked, his head spinning.

He remembered...finishing preliminary work on the new settlement. Celebrating. Then...someone shouting his name outside.

And then…

“We were attacked. By the Marauders. A lot of them. David, look at me...it’s been two days,” Evie said carefully.

He blinked several times. “What?” he managed.

“You’ve been unconscious for two days.”

He blinked several more times. Then he looked around. “Where are we?”

She sighed heavily. “Right back where we started,” she said. “You remember that cabin we first went to after the fire? Before there was anyone else, and it was just you and me? This is where we first made love. Right here in this spot, actually,” she added, looking down.

That was why it was familiar, he realized.

Yes, this was it. The cabin they’d run to in the night, the basement. As he stared at the nest of blankets and pillows he’d been laying on, he remembered. Last month, he and Evie had walked here, decided to use the place as an emergency outpost, just in case. They’d set up a new ‘nest’ as it were, and christened it by fucking.

“Who else is here?” he asked.

She shook her head. “It’s just you and me.”

He groaned, his head still aching. “I need some painkillers,” he muttered. “And to take a piss.” He slowly got up. Evie helped him.

“I’ll get you some painkillers,” she said.

He took a moment to get his bearings, his head still spinning in more than one way. The Marauders had attacked them? Yes, he remembered now. He’d stepped out and gotten smashed in the head right away. God, two days? So much must have happened.

“What about the others?” he muttered.

“I don’t know most of it,” Evie admitted as she came back with a trio of painkillers and another bottle of water in hand.

“Thanks...uh, give me a minute,” he said.

“Where are you going?” she asked.

“I’m going to go upstairs and take a leak...is it safe?” he asked.

“Yeah, for now. I was just up there taking a look. You want me to come with you?” she asked.

“No, I need a minute.” He hesitated, then he swallowed the three pills and walked over to her. He gave her a hug and a kiss. “Thank you for saving my life. I love you so much, Evie.”

“I love you too,” she whispered, hugging him tight. “I’m so glad you’re awake. I was so fucking scared.”

“I’m sorry I didn’t wake up sooner,” he said.

She laughed softly. “Me too. But you’re awake, that’s what matters.” As he pulled back from the hug, she gave him a stern look. “Don’t pick at your head wound. I managed to stitch it. Just a few and they’re holding, but don’t fuck with them, okay?”

“I won’t,” he promised. “I’ll be right back.”

He went up the stairs as quickly but as stealthily as possible, the urge to piss overwhelming now. He made his way through the darkness, the only light coming from a collection of candles she had lit downstairs. As he went around to the next set of stairs that would take him to the surface, he was bathed in almost total darkness. He saw no sunlight filtering in through beneath the crack. Which meant it must be night right now.

His head still going this way and that, David focused on the door ahead of him and the task of taking a leak. He had to get grounded. He could feel the immensity of what lay before him, something so vast he couldn’t comfortably comprehend it, like looking out at an ocean that you needed to sail across. It would be a long, difficult journey. But before he could even begin to take it, he needed to come back to reality.

David opened the door. It creaked and he winced, but in the faint moonlight filtering into the top portion of the cabin, he saw nothing stirring. He walked slowly around it, keeping his movements cautious and careful, and peered out each window in turn. He saw nothing out there but moonlit trees. No movement. Somewhere in the far distance, he thought he could hear gunfire of some sort, but it might be his imagination. Besides that, just the call of the occasional owl, and a wolf howling somewhere.

Jesus fucking hell, what a nightmare.

He opened the back door and, after looking around once more, his eyes already adjusting well to the near darkness, he pissed. It was a long, long piss and he hadn’t felt something so physically relieving in what seemed like a long time.

Two days.

Shit.

Last time he’d been out that long was when he’d been bit by a viper.

He had to have pissed himself at some point, or maybe Evie had gotten him to piss into a bucket or something. He had extremely vague, incoherent memories of laying in that bedding and her talking to him.

Fuck, two days.

He finished up and then drank most of the second bottle of water. What was left, he poured on his face, helping him focus and wake up. He rubbed his eyes, stared out into the dark woodlands that surrounded the cabin. It seemed impossible to think that it was less than a year since he’d first come to this place with Evie, back during the beginning of last winter. For a long moment, he thought, considering the dates, the time that had passed. He couldn’t be sure, but it would be roughly seven months ago that River View had burned down.

Seven months?

It felt like seven goddamned years now.

So much had happened to him, he’d changed so much.

David shook his head, then regretted it, mildly. It hurt, but it helped him focus. Focus, that was the key here.

Because he had things to do. So many things.

Turning around, feeling his brain and his body beginning to fully come back online as he started sorting out what lay of him, he headed back downstairs. He found Evie sitting in the only chair large enough for her.

“Okay honey, tell me exactly what’s been happening? Starting with when I got knocked out,” he said as he pulled a seat up next to her and sat down.

She nodded. “Honestly, it was really crazy. There was an attack on the new settlement. I did some fighting, we all did. But it became clear to me that they were outnumbering us, and I saw you. You were passed out. Everything was just chaos and I just...I grabbed you. And ran. I barely even remember doing it. I just ran and ran and ran. I know that they were attacking Haven, too. I remember that. I ran until I ended up here. I don’t know why I came here. I brought you to the basement. For a little while I was so fucking scared you had died. But you were still alive. I treated your wounds and kept waiting for you to wake up...”

She took a deep breath and calmed herself, looking up and blinking several times, trying not to cry. He reached out and took her hand. She gripped his hand and squeezed tightly. “I wanted to head out, to help. There was a lot of fighting. A lot. But I couldn’t just leave you here. I stayed with you through that first night and all of the first day. You woke up a few times but you were really out of it. During the second night, Ellie showed up. She almost shot me, I didn’t think she expected to find anyone here.”

“Where’d she go?” he asked. Obviously she wasn’t here any longer.

“She was...a little feral,” Evie replied uncomfortably. “Her eyes were...I don’t know. She was scary. She had blood on her and several guns. She told me to stay put and she’d kill them all. I tried to get some information out of her, but she just told me to stay here and she ran off. I haven’t seen her since. The next day, today, well, earlier today, Akila showed up. I was out checking for signs of life, and she showed up. She came and checked on you. She was...a lot more calm and cool than Ellie was, but I guess that’s no surprise. She said...” Evie hesitated.

“Yes?” he pressed.

“She said they had Haven and the new settlement completely on lockdown. They had most of our people prisoner. She said she saw Jennifer at Haven, but she hadn’t seen Cait or April or Lara. And I asked.”

“What about Lima Company? What about the farmers? The fishers?”

She shook her head. “Nothing on them. Akila left, told me to stay here. She was going to hunt them down, that she was perfect at this.”

David sighed softly and looked at the candles. At the way the flames flickered and danced. He was silent for several long moments, processing this information, his mind finally calming, settling, clearing.

When he looked back at Evie, he felt different.

“Okay,” he said, then he let go of her hand and stood up.

“Okay what?” she asked as he marched across the room.

“I’m going to war,” he replied simply.

“How?” she asked, standing and walking a few steps towards him.

“I’ll show you.”

He moved to the far corner of the room, in a small section of space between the stairwell and the wall where some old furniture had ended up. He dragged out a few chairs, then a desk, then knelt and reached into the space that was revealed. His hand came up holding a black case. He walked with it back over to the table where they’d been sitting.

“What is this?” Evie murmured.

“Paranoia,” he replied. “Justified paranoia, apparently.” He set the case down and cracked it open. Inside was a set of black tactical armor, a pistol with a silencer, a full medical kit, a knife, and ten magazines of ammo. “I started setting up a few caches of supplies over the summer,” he said as he started taking it out and laying it all on the table. “I traded for the tactical armor with a passing trader last month. I figured in the event of some kind of emergency...of something like this, well, I needed to have a cache of stuff ready to go. I’d always intended to have more waiting, but never got around to it. I guess I should be lucky I did this,” he muttered.

“David...” Evie said, and he looked up at her. She looked worried, and anxious.

“If you’re going to try and tell me not to go out there...”

“No,” she said, and a somewhat pained smile came onto her large, beautiful face. “It would be pointless. You’re going out there. I know you. I can’t stop you. I wouldn’t want to. It’s going to be dangerous, extremely dangerous, but you’re right. We need to be out there. I hate that I’ve waited here as long as I have. Our friends, our family, our loved ones are out there right now...”

“And we’re going to help them,” David said.

“I know. But I was gonna say...” she hesitated.

“What?”

“It’s selfish.”

“Tell me anyway,” he said, wondering what she was wanting.

She sighed. “It’s so dangerous out there, way more than usual. Anything could happen. I guess...I wanted to have sex. Just in case...”

“One of us dies,” he said. She nodded. He looked back at the tactical gear, half in the case, half on the table, then at her. She was right. It was going to be dangerous. It might be the most dangerous thing he’d ever done. “Okay,” he said. “Let’s make love, then we can wage war.”

She smiled. “Thank you.”

He laughed. “You’re doing me a favor as much as I’m doing you a favor. I love having sex with you, Evie.”

“I know, I just...you’re the most intimate person I’ve ever been with. It’s only been with you, and with Cait and April now, that I’ve actually felt like making love was, well, making love, and not just, you know, having sex.”

“I know how you feel,” he said. “Come here, babe.”

He stepped up to her and she dipped her head. Her height difference was something that he’d gotten used to, but it was still so obvious to him. Having a girlfriend a full foot and a half taller than you was an interesting experience. She kissed him firmly on the mouth, a long, lingering kiss with a lot of tongue. Then she pulled back and started taking her clothes off. He joined her, stripping out of what he was wearing.

He could make time for this.

Though not a whole lot of it.

He kept worrying about Cait. Was she okay? Was she safe? Was she hurt? And the others? God, so many women, so many people in his life that he cared about now, that he was worried about. He was going to kill for them.

But right now, before the storm came, he was going to enjoy this one, shining moment of peace and serenity with a woman he loved.

It wasn’t long before they were naked and embracing on the nest of blankets. It wasn’t the most comfortable place to have sex, but it didn’t need to be. Even as Evie settled onto her back and opened her legs for him, and he settled in between her tremendous thighs, he knew it wasn’t going to be anything but a quickie. They didn’t have time, and they needed their strength for what was to come. David could tell he was in shitty enough shape as it was. But he wanted this, they both did. Perhaps they needed it to help them come to terms with the war that lay ahead of them. He didn’t want to think about that.

And he didn’t, not for a little bit, as he slid into her.

“Oh, David...” she whispered as he penetrated her, sliding into that slippery goliath vagina, into her familiar depths. “Oh honey, yes...” she moaned as he began making love to her.

“Evie...” he moaned, laying against her, holding her, embracing her.

As he started to thrust into her, to bury his rock-hard length into her, everything else fell away. He listened to her moaning and panting, to the own sounds coming out of him, to the sound of their skin slapping together. His cock disappeared into her again and again, and the pleasure burned into him. Both of them were soon panting, and she held him close to her. Held his much smaller frame against her much larger body, enjoying every second of their coupling.

“I love you, David,” she whispered, her voice thick with emotion. “I love you.”

“I love you too, Evie,” he moaned, his own voice hoarse with it as well. “I love you so much. I love you, honey.”

They lost themselves in the sex. He thought of nothing for a glorious few minutes but her voluptuous, hot, smooth body and her perfect inhuman vagina and the way it felt to make love with her. The emotions he could feel radiating off of her as intensely as the heat of her body. The way she held him, the way she moved her body against his own, the passion in her voice. Everything felt far more intense than it usually did when they made love.

As such, it didn’t last long.

Both of them began to orgasm at almost the same time. They each tried to be quiet, stifling themselves and their intense cries of passion, given that anyone could be nearby. Anyone or anything could overhear them.

David lost himself in that hot release of liquid, his seed spilling out of him into her orgasming vagina. They held each other and moaned in pure sexual gratification, pure loving ecstasy. He quietly moaned her name several times, feeling nothing but absolute love for her, feeling a depth and intensity of love he once had never known and even had questioned the possibility of. But he knew now. He felt this love for her, for Cait, for April. To varying degrees, the other women in his life who regularly shared his bed.

Women who were out there now, injured or captured or fighting for their lives or…

Possibly even dead.

No, David thought as he came back to himself, forcibly brought back to reality as the orgasm fell away, leaving him panting, no, I won’t think about that.

He couldn’t, and keep his focus.

He had to assume they were all still alive, and that he could help them.

“I love you sweetheart...but the time to work has come,” he murmured.

“I understand,” she said. She patted his back once. “I love you, too.”

Then she released him. David pulled out of her, and then he began to prepare for the greatest battle he had ever fought.

He found some water that they had stashed there after getting back to his feet and went about the process of cleaning up. It would help him focus, and like the sex he had just had, it might be the last time he got to enjoy it for quite awhile. When they had initially come here, they’d stashed some food, some water, some basic quality of life supplies, some medicine. He soaped and washed and dried, then examined his body. There were a few bruises, but it seemed like the only serious problem was the injury on his head.

“Will you take a look at it for me, love?” he asked, realizing he very well couldn’t look at the top of his own head.

“Yes,” she replied, coming over. She took a moment to examine the wound, pulling a bandage she’d put in place away. He winced but held his peace. “Let me just clean it really quick, then reapply the bandage. It’s looking good. You dizzy?” she asked.

“No,” he replied. “Just a headache. Otherwise I’m fine. I’m kind of pumped, honestly.”

“Well, you’ve never had your work so cut out for you,” she murmured.

“Maybe,” he said. Then he lost some of his enthusiasm. “God, I hope Cait’s okay.”

“They seemed intent on taking prisoners, that’s what Akila told me. I’m sure she’s okay,” Evie replied as she came over with the medical supplies.

He didn’t say anything, just endured his own unhappy thoughts and the pain of her tending to his wound in silence. She might not be okay. None of them might be. Right now, all he knew for a fact was that Evie was okay.

And even that might change soon.

No. Focus. Had to keep focus.

“Done,” she said.

“Thank you.”

He walked back over to the table and began pulling on his tactical gear. It was all black. Black boxers and socks, black body armor that was lightweight enough to allow mobility, but should be enough to stop at least a few bullets. He’d been saving it for a rainy day and now it was fucking pouring. He slid it all on, settling it into place, and finished by slipping a black beanie over his head, wincing slightly at the wound.

Next, he secured the spare ammunition in some of the varied pockets. Then he slid the combat knife he’d also secured in the sheath on his thigh. After securing the medical equipment and a canteen that he filled with water, he took a moment to make sure it was all held firmly in place so he didn’t make any more noise than necessarily while moving. Cait, Evie, Akila, and Lara had all taught him several things during their time together.

He intended to put it all to good use.

“Wow,” Evie said when he finished by lacing up his boots. “You look...different.”

“Do I?” he asked.

“Yeah, you look...like a soldier. You look scary, actually. A little like how Ellie looked when I saw her,” she said uncomfortably.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going feral,” he said. “But I fully intend to wipe every last one of these motherfuckers out. They declared war on us. They attacked us. I’m sure they’ve killed some of us. I swear I saw people dying while you were carrying me out...”

She frowned, nodded. “Yeah. I saw at least two of Val’s people shot in the head, and one of our people from Haven was machine-gunned through. Just pumped full of holes...” she whispered.

“This is the kind of thing I’ve been preparing for. All summer it felt like the other shoe was gonna drop, you remember me saying that?” She nodded. “It’s dropped. I’ve been preparing for this, getting ready for it, and now it’s here. I’ve pissed away two whole days comatose. Ellie and Akila and the others are all out there fighting, and we’re going to help them. Whatever it takes, however long it takes, we’re getting our people back. Our havens, our friends, our fucking way of life. We’re getting it all back.”

“I’m with you, David,” Evie said, her voice strengthening.

He looked her up and down. She was fully dressed now, her hair pulled into a tight ponytail, a pistol in her hand.

Her expression was grim and determined.

She looked every inch the warrior he knew she could be, when the time called for it.

It had called for it.

He nodded tightly. “Let’s get out there and make them regret the day they met us.”