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Awards!
          
          Not many spots :)
          
          @BurntSugarPlum
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/406399485-the-oasis-awards-january-2026

And one more thing today.
          
          The playlists & chapter songs for The Bright Room are up.
          
          It was my 5k pledge, but I was waiting for Ambys to wrap up with editing the book. Still, that was Ambys 2025, and we are in 2026 already, so... enough is enough.
          
          I'd like to thank those four imaginary oxen that have been dragging me away from metal; they almost died from exhaustion.
          
          Not that the direction I took is much less niche :). But it really suits the book's mood. 
          
          In case you know the book already and just want to check what I have selected, there is a summary here:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1579229709-the-bright-room-18%2B-playlists

Another chapter of Reap The Whirlwind. 
          
          Alice faces the point of no return.
          
          We are deep in the endgame - a chapter with a warning for torture, and it almost got a pepper icon too (well, it basically depends on how kinky the reader is). 
          
          I still like Marvin, though. I wonder if you will, too, after what he does here.
          
          And the end is still on the horizon. Meaning, still the same distance from the observer (two chapters). If we are lucky, next week the horizon will finally be closer (which usually means a waterfall or a cliff).
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1599728276-reap-the-whirlwind-18%2B-24-fixation-point-%E2%9B%93%EF%B8%8F

Dear sci-fi, horror, and short story writers!
          
          (and others, but I want competition in my categories)
          
          Please seriously consider these amazing awards. Outcome is one thing, but you get a guarantee that a smart person will read your book and write a thoughtful review. That's, like, absolutely priceless.
          
          And there are stickers!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/406156289-the-golden-age-awards

Hello there,
          
          quite surprisingly, Reap The Whirlwind reached 2k reads before I managed to finish writing it.
          
          Thank you, readers!
          
          What should I do now? Character esthetics? With all the decoy MMCs before the actual hottie, biblically-accurate-angel AI? :D
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/399969576-reap-the-whirlwind-18%2B

Awards!
          
          And this one has short stories with reasonable criteria!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/406058054-the-nile-awards

The third of the five of the last two chapters of Reap The Whirlwind is up, though judging by how well keeping the next-to-last one short is going, those last two will be six by the time I'm done.
          
          This one is the last bit of exposition before horror begins--we learn a little more about Marvin and how he is (not) getting along with his bosses.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1598270462-reap-the-whirlwind-18%2B-23-operand-conditioning

Happy new year!
          
          So, bad news: my plan to finish Reap The Whirlwing in 2025 failed -- I still have 1.5 chapters left to write, and it's the grand finale, so it is going slooooow.
          
          In good news, I got second place in The Amberleaf Awards - The Druzy Dialogue:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1571143339-the-amberleaf-awards-special-categories-judging-%E2%9E%A0
          
          I always love this because dialogues are my favourite thing to write.
          
          My thanks to @TheGemmeCommunity and to the judge, @Eerie_Haven

Hi, there is an interesting contest going on - vote based, but much more serious than usual (you need to explain your vote, and you need to vote in both categories -- 5 votes each). If you want to give it a shot, please check some interesting blurbs and find your favourites, the list and voting is here:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1598729079-the-inkwars-awards-%E3%80%90-%EC%9E%89%ED%81%AC%EC%9B%8C%EC%A6%88-%EC%96%B4%EC%9B%8C%EB%93%9C-%E3%80%91-on-going-round-2

Well, remember those 2 chapters I had left till the end of Reap The Whirlwind?
          
          There are five chapters now, and I am still working on them.
          
          But since it was over two weeks already, let's publish the first two of the five that used to be two :). I hope I won't need to make any extensive changes later.
          
          So... Alice goes to space, and finally meets the "aliens".
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1598043581-reap-the-whirlwind-18%2B-21-ex-situ-conservation
          https://www.wattpad.com/1598044262-reap-the-whirlwind-18%2B-22-voucher-specimen