A branded soldier's last confession, and the country priest who has to decide what to do with the truth. A 4,000-word side story from the world of Verada Requiem.

Six weeks before Harper Reeves discovers the cattle formations in Whisper Ridge, a seventy-two-year-old widowed rancher becomes the first human to make quiet, unreported contact with something bleeding through a reality fracture. A side tale from the world of The Unseen.

A Graveyard of Empires short story. On a dead colony world sixty years after the bombardment, salvage captain Ria Velko finds something in the ruins that was never meant to be found — and something out in the deep places notices her.

A World of Shadows short story. Four years before the basement at Saint Joseph's, Father Niccolo Paladina stood in a shanty in Tondo with the wrong rite in his hands. He has never written the case file. He writes it now.

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.