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R.E.N/D Chapter 10: Safehouse
11:29pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. The rain that began to fall bounced from the tops of metal shipping containers with distinctive thuds, and ran over their edges and down their sides to coalesce as puddles and running streams of water on the ground. Soon the lights of the distant cityscape were reflected on soaking…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 9: Centipede
10:32pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. “What the fuck?” The bikers that Aiden found himself facing were not the one percenter outlaws common in the previous century, but members of the high-tech gangs who raced and fought through the night streets of Kanto, rebelling against corporate tyranny and the high surveillance state. They wore jackets,…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 8: Knives
9:59pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. The wail of sirens faded as their source grew distant, and their electronic cries of alarm were replaced by the hard-jolting techno beats and psychedellic trance tracks of the city’s crime-ridden clubs. They played through the open doors of rival venues and filled the streets in competition, each seeking…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 7: A Night Still Young
9:13pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. The skylanes reminded Kato of an electronic Jackson Pollock painting; a bizarre and abstract wish-wash of siren lights, spotlights, neon commercials and flames all mixed together in multi-coloured, luminescent pollution. It was loud, too. Police dropships, cars and bikes sped past to cordon off the entire zone; while media…
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R.E.N/D audiobook version!
With the help of ElevenLabs (and with absolutely no help from the fact I’m terrible at narrating/voice acting), I’ve decided to start uploading a vocally narrated version of R.E.N/D to my YouTube channel. Yes, I know. I haven’t updated the webnovel in months, but that’s because I’ve been editing two other projects, wrote the first…
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Update on my sci-fi project!
It’s been a few months, but I’m happy to announce that as of this evening, I’ve finished the second draft of my as-of-yet untitled science fiction novel! It’s currently sitting at 209,000 words, which I know is quite beefy and will probably immediately turn away many agents, but I’m really proud of how it’s turned…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 6: The Hospital
(Now edited and given some pretty significant changes!) 7:55pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. The first warning that something wasn’t right came when, despite the absence of a fire, the fire alarm went off. The alarm was a high pitched, loud, repeating bleep that, for nearly five minutes, progressed more and more to an electronic…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 5: Nothing We Can Do
(Edited to fix some errors and make it slightly better to read.) 2:00pm, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. Naka-Sura Multinational was headquartered in a gargantuan structure in western Kanto known as the Hexagon. Consisting of six towers arrayed at the six points of its namesake shape, each tower was progressively taller than the last, the…
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Introducing… Erlan!
Edit: now with the .jpg version – I accidentally uploaded a .png before. Finally, after months (literally) of worldbuilding work, I introduce to you… Erlan! Erlan is the setting of my next big writing project, and is something I’ve been working on, on and off and in both small and large portions, for several years…
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R.E.N/D Chapter 4: A Book by its Cover
9:30am, Thursday the 9th October, 2132. Detective Sergeant Kato Akihiko stared out of the front window of his car, forced to watch the endless morning traffic and the run-down buildings of the old Tokyo Bay. Most of the buildings there were a hundred or more years old; towers, offices and apartment blocks built when Tokyo…
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Worldbuilding
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