Reading Time: 4 minutes Tale of Fortune, originally published in spring of 2020, is a time-hopping prequel to Soldier of Fortune, and offers no spoilers. For those who wish to read the novella all at once, the 99¢ ebook is available for purchase. Willing to read along every Monday, but still want to support Outrageous Fiction? Take a moment to …
Reading Time: 9 minutes Prep is finalized, monkeys prepped, and Team Gypsy Moth is ready to rock. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 20 Harry and Mo didn’t actually run through the docking concourse. As professionals, albeit from different sides of the legal coin, both understood that people running tended to draw unwelcome attention. That said, …
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ray wakes up and makes some friends. Sort of. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 19 Inside the GIES cell where his body had been deposited, Ray’s psyche continued to struggle through the massacre on Verdanti Prime. Lost as he was in the feedback loop of that fateful day, Ray couldn’t know …
Reading Time: 14 minutes Into the Gorgon’s Lair… To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 18 Mo Stonewell was no stranger to plans going sideways. After all, sapient nature alone was sufficient to prevent even the best cons from being foolproof. Because she understood this, she also understood that a grift had to remain fluid. If a …
Reading Time: 12 minutes Ray overshares. Harry plots. Mollin makes a faux pas. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 17 Jessyn might have found some comfort in knowing that, despite the burns of the stun batons, and the bruises caused by GIES fists and boots, Ray was feeling no pain. Unfortunately, the absence of physical suffering …
Reading Time: 11 minutes It’s all happening at the mall. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 16 A little over an hour after leaving the Moth, Harry stood in a high end boutique and watched Mo hold up a hanger, on which draped a wispy bit of fabric she optimistically termed a gown. “Are you really …
Reading Time: 11 minutes The runup begins as Harry and Mo’s plot takes shape. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 15 Two minutes after Doyle’s comm… “When was the last auction, again?” Harry asked, still seated on the couch, Mo at his side. “What happened to the ‘alleged’?” Mo asked. “It was implied,” Harry told her …
Reading Time: 9 minutes Ray dodges Doyle, Mollin rhapsodizes over tiny umbrellas, Harry remembers his salad days. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 14 As Jessyn departed, Ray gestured for Mollin to join him amidships. Mostly to prevent Doyle noticing Koz, who was currently bellying his way over the deck and into the cockpit access passage, …
Reading Time: 13 minutes Harry makes a call, Koz makes a connection, Doyle makes a sudden appearance. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 13 Inside the privacy of what, pre-Mo, had been his quarters, Harry took a moment to process everything Koz and the team had uncovered, so far. As he did, his eyes fell to …
Reading Time: 12 minutes Mollin eats protein chips, Koz finds out Libra is cooking the books. To catch up on previous chapters, click HERE. Chapter 12 Getting the slice of data wasn’t complicated, but the amount of data the one-point-three-three milliseconds Koz selected proved daunting. Soon after Koz uploaded the segment of a day in the life of Cerberus, …