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A dome of inflated glass stretched high over the rice fields of Hab 15b. Dargin walked along an elevated catwalk, staring at the data feed scrolling down the inner side of his vac suit’s face shield. Current Crop: Rice – Seed Generation 3483 Variation 45Current Exposure Duration: 19:55:00Next Scheduled Shielding: 00:05:00Rice Nutrient Efficiency: 94.7%Time Since Last Sample: 20:55:00Projected Crop Harvest: 2.5pyNext Scheduled Crop Rotation: Wheat – Seed Generation 278 Variation 14 Dargin sighed as he refreshed and read the data…
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“Really? Riding the link again?” The voice was distant, Yalma thought. Did it belong to Freddy? Or his engineer friend Jackson? She wasn’t sure. “Hey, get up,” the voice said, wandering in again. “Shake that shit out of your head. We need to get to work.” Yalma finally opened her eyes. She was no longer in the snow-covered forest of ancient earth, riding inside the cab of a train and…what had happened again? Something shined. Something hit. Red everywhere. But…
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RECORDING DATE: 21-12-2096 (EY-AD)SUBJECT NAME: Darcy, Frederick T.COLLECTION: Social Link Earth Memories (SLEM) C1TRANSCRIPTION BY: C.AbUNLAST ACCESS DATE: 04-11-5544 (PY-AP)
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Hello! It’s with great excitement that I can share my first self-published story is available to purchase. Frenetika The Mage is a prequel novella to it’s companion video game, FRENETIKA. You can purchase an e-book version (which is also free with kindle unlimited) or purchase a fancy shmancy paperback version! As I wrote in a previous post, this novella was initially intended to be unlockable lore in the video game. However, once I released the game I was pretty dang…
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Hello! For the past two-ish years I’ve been fiddling away at a game. Sometimes feverishly, other times absentmindedly. Over the last eight-ish months, I really started to put my foot down on finishing the project. As any creative can attest, getting trapped in the project graveyard is both common and maddening. So with this project, I said, “Nah, this one will see the light of day.” And so it has! FRENETIKA is now on sale on Steam and Itch.io. It’s…
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Yep, it is time. There is a common fallacy known as the sunk-cost fallacy wherein an individual (in this case a writer) is reluctant to give up or change their strategy because they’ve invested so much time and effort toward it, and to do so, would essentially be throwing all that time and effort away. I think I’ve fallen victim to this fallacy. With that said, I’ve come to a point where I recognize the fork in the road that…
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(To read this story in non-blog format, follow this link) Garrett Falk swayed with the train car as it bounced along on its way through the city. The other passengers swayed too. A semi-translucent window hovered in front of him in the middle of the train car. He flicked his pointer finger and the window scrolled to the next auto-generated aggregated news story; something about poverty reaching record numbers. He flicked his finger again to scroll to the next story.…
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I’m stuck in a place that has run out of time. What once seemed like an abundance – filled with unlimited opportunity – has fallen through the cracks like sand. Where did the time go? Well, it went willingly to the newborn baby and all his needs and wants. This bit of time was not lost, but instead actually made more valuable with every moment spent with that baby. So if not there, then where else? Well, perhaps it went…
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For the past two years I’ve been agonizing and wrestling with “the book.” This project – a high-fantasy debut novel – has pushed my creativity and persistence to new levels, and you can read all about my struggles and triumphs in my previous blog posts. So it comes as a surprise to myself that my very first published writing in a book comes in the form of a supplementary piece to a memoir that I wrote and edited over the…
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Wow, it’s been a while. And life continues to roll on. As mentioned in my last blog post, work on the book has continued on. Perhaps not as quickly as I planned (a universal truth of creative projects), but continued nonetheless. Since that post I sent out another volley of Query Letters to prospective agents. And since that post, I received another volley of rejections. It was expected, yes, but still discouraging. And so, my rate of pitching agents slowed…
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Carving out my own small corner of the internet
Tyler Hillis 