Conscientious Deluxe Pants-Buying Experience

Conscientious Deluxe Pants-Buying Experience
Summary: Isadore pulls on her gas mask and goes on an expedition to buy pants in a super-monetized post-pestilence hellscape that is totally not based on my personal experience.
Series: None (stand-alone)
Word Count: 1800
Notes: This story was posted with the support of the LiberaPay and Patreon crews!


The final blow came when Isadore opened the drier and discovered her final pair of jeans, just lovingly mended, had new holes in them. There was no question: she needed new pants.

( An adventure of evil, smartapps, and friendship ensues. )

Reverend Alpert: The Gestaltist of Blood

The Gestaltist of Blood
Series: Reverend Alpert
Summary: At the start of the story, before he meets Perfection, Alpert gets caught by some enterprising bandits.
Word Count: 1200
Notes: I was never fully satisfied with the first, introductory Alpert story being “the Sins of Flesh Demon.” This story is meant to fulfill that role, and also to jive with the eventual paperback omnibus. This story was posted with the support of the LiberaPay and Patreon crews!


“I don’t like robbing no Gestaltist,” one of the bandits was saying. “No telling what they’ll pull on you.”

The other bandit, a woman, rolled her eyes. “Don’t be superstitious. At least he ain’t no hoodoo man; now they are the worst.”

“Hoodoo men, you know what you’re getting,” the first insisted. “My granddaddy was a hoodoo man, and a damn good one. Gestaltists, though, they do all sorts of damn fool things, don’t got no proper tradition, no lineage, you know what I’m saying? They could be any damn thing.”

( Blood and Chalk )

Coming In Or Staying Out is FOR SALE!

Yes! I needed a week to recuperate, but Coming In Or Staying Out is UP FOR SALE! Both the ebook version and paper book version are $5, because the ebook comes in hot pink and purple, rather than the black and white of the paper book.
( Images and details behind the cut! :D )