A side tale from The Ashen Kingdoms. The night before conscription, an old hedge witch reads the embers for the mothers of boys being marched off to war — and sees the mouths under the world.

A Forest Service ranger's Tuesday morning stop at a small Rocky Mountain town goes wrong. A side tale from the Raven's Peak era of the World on Fire trilogy.

A Last Light short story. Dr. Marisol Vega is alone on Listening Post Seven when a transmission comes in from a moon nobody pronounces out loud. She is the first to hear it. She will not be the last.

I've run over 11,000 AI agent tasks this year with a 99.4% success rate. Here's what actually works, what fails spectacularly, and why boring agents beat brilliant ones.

Eighty lines of TypeScript and an MCP server turn Terminal Bridge into a full AI terminal integration. Here's the code, the patterns, and the hard lesson about terminal naming I learned at 2 AM.

This week: two tech deep-dives on AI agents and terminal access, Last Light worldbuilding, new chapters across five series, Alexa game launches, and a Hocking Hills trail ranking.

Are you a pantser or a plotter? Here's the short version of what style of writer you might be and how to find out.

Everything you need to know to play Flip Match (Memory Snap) — on Alexa or the web. Chess-style coordinates, three difficulties, four themes, and streak scoring.

Everything you need to know to play Zoo Simulator — on Alexa or the web. Habitats, animals, breeding, staff, the 7-phase daily simulation, and Golden Tickets.