• NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 2

    Dale meets someone who has information on the strange exits he has found and on what they mean, and who has a warning about sharing information about them.

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  • NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 1

    Dale contacts some friends to try and get help figuring out what he has stumbled into, and re-opens some old wounds in the process. The information he has posted on-line about the strange exit seems to have attracted some unwanted attention, and the mysterious woman from the exit returns.

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  • NaNoWriMo 2016 – Wrong Exit – Week 0

    Dale Carter, a medical supply courier, takes a highway exit that leads to a place that doesn’t seem to exist.

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  • Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 4

    Perry finds that no one has considered a psychological study of the teams on the far side of the Portals, but finds that they do regularly monitor all communications home. He and Peri are told to not talk to each other and to keep their observations to themselves, resulting in an unexpected but necessary arrangement to continue with their research.

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  • Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 3

    Rifts between the various teams seem to be deepening, but only Perry and his unexpected ally Perimala seem to notice anything.

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  • Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 2

    Perry gets his first taste of how things are done on the far side of the Portals, and discovers that even though every one there is part of a select group, not everyone is getting along.

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  • Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 – Portals – Week 1

    A mysterious artifact has been found that allows passage to alternate versions of the Earth, but only a select few individuals are able to pass through them.

    On all of these alternate Earths, humanity is extinct.

    Climatologist Percival Grayson (call me “Perry”) is the latest to learn that he has the ability to use the “Portal” and is sent to Dallas, Texas on an Earth locked in an Ice Age. What will he find there?

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  • One Thing Left to Do

    The ship has fallen. The monsters that used to be the crew are at the door. There is only one thing left to do.

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  • Loophole

    There are loopholes in every set of laws. Even those involving Time Travel.

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  • Welcome Aboard

    Ian and I were working on the irrigation units on the north wall when we saw the trader pass overhead. Just the contrail of re-entry, but we knew it meant they would be landing soon. We left the pump half-disassembled and headed down and across the Gash. We knew the rest of the town would be heading for the pad as well. It would be several days before things returned to their routine so no one would be paying attention to the lower water pressure for a while. The lifts were already up so we had to take the Thousand Steps to the top of the south rim and by the time we finished the climb the trader had already settled onto the flat expanse of compacted dirt that served as our starport, though the only real way to distinguish it from the rest of the plain was the array of antenna and sensor domes surrounding it. Most of the population was already there, watching as the automs brought the scheduled cargoes out of the hold and carried them to the lifts that would lower them to the valley floor. Then came the market goods, the things that everyone had come to see and trade for. I watched the crowd as they moved among the tables the trader’s crew had put out. We mostly had items of glass to trade; when you live on a world of sand your manufacturing options are limited. The crew took what we had, carefully

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