Sophia Martin
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Hey, The first chapter of 'How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis Book 8: Welcome to Shrine Island' is up on GravityTales.com and my own site MoodyLit.com now. The second chapter is available to patrons on Patreon.com /mooderino as well (I'm trying out early access chapters). The story will start here on RRL from Monday 2nd April. The schedule is three times a week, Monday-Wednesday-Friday. Chapters will be slightly shorter than before, around 2K words. Any questions or comments, post them here or on my…-
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Hey, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis Book 8 will start on Monday 26th March. It will return a week earlier on Gravity Tales and my site MoodyLit.com (where you can read all my other stories too, including ones not available anywhere else). Any questions ask here or on my Discord. LINK. Don't forget you can vote for the story on TopWebFiction here…
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Claire stabbed me. She didn’t know I was in here, but would that have made a difference? The moment the blade entered my chest, I felt a rush of cold go through me like smoke through a keyhole. Everything began shaking. I was falling apart. “What are yo’ doing?” screamed Flossie. “It’s not him,” said Maurice. “Colin’s safe. This is just his body. We have to stop them now, or we’ll never get another chance.” It had never been a great body, but ‘just his body’ seemed a little…
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I hope for the best in people. I really do. We all lie and cheat and go back on our promises, sometimes, but that doesn’t mean the next person you meet will. You have to look for the good in people, otherwise what’s the point of even getting up in the morning? Take Wesley. I genuinely hoped she was a walking pillar of doom and destruction who would reduce the cities of Flatland to rubble and let nature reclaim them so they were silent monuments to the dead. You have to stay positive. The very fact…
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By this point I considered darkness to be an old friend. Considering how my friends had been treating me of late, my buddy darkness was probably hiding monsters that would eat my face. I wasn’t scared. Intellectually, I knew I should be, but convincing me to cut myself off from everyone was probably the best thing Maurice could have done for me. I was comfortably numb. Which, in practical terms, meant I would go into the next life without having shat my pants, which I’m sure would be appreciated. The…
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Despite Flossie’s unconditional delight at Maurice and Claire’s reunion, I wasn’t feeling the love. Not that I was feeling the hate, either. Betrayal is never a good thing. On the amusement park fun scale it ranks right up there alongside roller coaster gone wrong amputating thirty teenagers at the knees. But it hadn’t exactly taken me by surprise. To be honest, I had expected all of them to have left by now. The only reason they hadn’t, as far as I could tell, was that we kept getting into…
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It wasn’t like Claire suddenly transforming was a bad thing. When the Fire Nation attacks, you want someone to change into their Avatar state. She was more Korra than Aang, but who knew what she was capable of now? I suddenly felt a sense of loss at not having Maurice around to swap pop culture analogies with. It’s all very well having people standing beside you in times of trouble, but it leaves an unsatisfactory feeling when they don’t understand your references. We had a giant Elf with a handful…
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Maurice had said very little so far. It was obvious he knew he was in the wrong from the guilt plastered all over his face. That didn’t necessarily mean he was going to accept his punishment. “We should talk about this,” he said, pushing his glasses up his nose. They immediately slipped down again. “No, I don’t think we need to,” I said I was being remarkably sanguine about the whole thing, even if I do say so myself. From the moment I realised Maurice had been working for the other team,…
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“But why?” asked Claire, her hands shaking by her side. It was a dumb question. Why lie to your friends in order to gain immense power? Not exactly the riddle of the sphinx. But Claire needed to ask it, needed to pretend there was an answer that would make everything okay. Maurice had a ferocious grin on his face, the kind only severe embarrassment can produce. Despite any reasons and justifications he might have, when you get caught doing something you know you shouldn’t do — because all the…
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There are two kinds of experts. The kind who know their subject well enough to take it apart and put it back together again. And then there are the experts who are really good at watching other people and giving them marks out of ten. The second kind are also a useless bunch of twats. Not that people shouldn’t be allowed to express their opinion or make a judgement—without this instinct humans wouldn’t have survived the earlier part of our development. It’s just that there isn’t very much you…
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