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"Sharpen your verbal machetes and get back out there." -short stories- -poems- -drabbles-

Tempest

[Tempest Series #1] "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams." -- Werner Herzog For three years, Tessa has known Camp Half-Blood. It's her home, her training ground, the only place she can be safe as a daughter of Poseidon. However, the more she longs for the...

The Tales of Mark the Great

[Tempest Series #1.5] Mark Akagi, son of Iris, and...adventurer extraordinaire? Follow Mark in three short stories from his time on the quest of Tempest! See what happened when Mark, Reese, and Kaden got lost in Los Angeles, or, what happened in the casinos of Las Vegas.

Wake

[Tempest Series #0.5] "This is one monster that even we can't destroy. It feeds off your very fears, every premonition that warns you that something, somewhere, is watching you. And maybe it is. Maybe it's watching us right now, just waiting to attack." No one is immune to fear, not even Tessa Brennan and her dauntles...

Infinity

A bind-up of Tempest and Nebula AU oneshots.

Nebula

[Tempest Series #2] "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." --Ralph Waldo Emerson The quest to defeat Deimos is over, but Tessa and her friends are nowhere near being in the clear. Multiple factors cause turmoil within the group: Kaden's newly revealed secret, Tessa's personal quest for her mother, the mourni...

Prophecy

[Tempest Series #2.5] Six months after the events of Nebula, Tessa and her friends at Camp Half-Blood are slowly trying to go back to normal life. However, the past comes back to haunt them in more ways than one. When Amelie reports that Orion's portals are unstable, and that a former enemy has been spotted using them...

Invictus

[Tempest Series #3] "It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." --William Ernest Henley, Invictus With the turn of the seasons comes a new chapter in Tessa Brennan's story as she and her companions begin college in New R...

Solstice

[Tempest Series #3.5] "Those of two worlds, reunited again one colder than the moon, the other a friend Unite against darkness, whose spell casts over sight Through peril and danger, under the cover of night Resolve worry and Fear, against the Hunter's intent Or unleash a plague of fury before Solstice end."

Aurora

[Tempest Series #4] "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." --Sarah Williams Three years from the events of Invictus, the playing field has shifted. Somewhere, Vinny Maxwell is raising an army to carry out the mysterious Projec...

Sovereign of Stars

In the Perian Empire, all magic is outlawed. This has been the rule since the dawn of the first Perian Kings, since before the Empire was born, but when legend tells of a group of champions chosen by the gods, the Empire must find them before their enemies do. Crown Prince Adrian Avitus, eager to prove his worth as th...

Most Likely to Steal West High's Heart

[Book One of the Willa Files] When high school senior Willa Murdock is approached by her longtime popular crush, Levi Graham, she thinks her life will finally fall into place. Goodbye, being a wallflower! Goodbye, being awkward! Things will finally be better with Levi in her life. Until Levi plays Willa like a fiddle...

Vortex

[Tempest Series #4.5] As the demigods of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter spiral towards war against Menoetious and Typhon, Eli Allistairs holds the key to defending both camps and Olympus once and for all. Having hacked into the General's confidential intel on Project Maelstrom, Eli embarks on a mission alongside Kia...

Maelstrom

[Tempest Series #5] In the aftermath of the Masked Battle, a storm is brewing on the horizon as both Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter fight to stop it. Menoetious, the true evil, is in hiding, and the demigods are determined to destroy him before he can raise Typhon, the father of Monsters, and destroy humanity. Howev...

Union

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale." -Peter S. Beagle Cover credit to @Silver_Chick