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Chapter Six is now live.  Come and read by clicking here, or you can as always do it the hard way and follow the link on the sidebar.

And now Chapter Five is online and ready for reading.  Just click here, or follow the Second Gate link in the sidebar if you want to do it the hard way.

Added some appendix material for those who may be a little confuzzled by the unusual terms or methods of measurement I use; or some of the (admittedly) rough “science” behind the galaxy in which the story takes place.  They can be found with the other Second Gate chapters.

And now, Chapter Four is live and good to go.  As always, you can read it either by following the Second Gate link in the sidebar, or just by clicking here.

I appreciate everyone who has suffered the story thusfar.  I often call these opening chapters the “Concerning Hobbits” portion, that opening segment where you’re introducing a new world and the scenes, and all the things that make the setting unique.

I name it after the opening section of The Fellowship of the Ring, of that very name; which is considered by most readers to be painfully dry, hard to absorb, yet is also almost crucial to understand the motivations that make the story go.  I try to make my “Concerning Hobbits” portion as interesting as I can, but invariably, the action and the plot moves slowly as I spend many a word making the world make some semblance of sense.

It will get better, I promise you.

And with a stroke of a keypad (okay… several strokes of a keypad), Chapter Three is up and running.  You can read it, and the other chapters posted so far, here.

See you next Monday!

Chapter Two is now live and ready for reading.

See you next Monday!

The Second Gate officially begins.  You can begin to read either by following the link on the sidebar to the right, or by clicking here.

The Prologue is rather short (about a page and a half on 11×8.5 paper), so it didn’t seem terribly fair to consider that the weekly update.  As I result, I threw in Chapter One as well.

Thanks for coming in, and I hope you’ll drop in next week to read more.

Added a page for some of my favorite links.  I don’t have many there; as I prefer a quality over quantity approach.  Anyone can link a web address… I like to provide more; why I like it, and why you readers should too.

Check them out; some you may have heard of, some you may not have.  Either way, it’s a way to reconnect or discover something new.

And that is always a good thing.

Having finally navigated this webspace enough to be satisfied that it won’t be an unmitigated disaster, I now officially launch this little dinghy into the dangerous waters of the world wide web.

This first offering is a series of five short stories, meant to set the table for the full-length novel featuring the universe of my creation.  It can be found by clicking on the Gate Cycle: Short Stories link on the right sidebar, or by clicking here.

Here’s hoping that this is the start of something entertaining!