Siobhan
Month 5, Day 16, Friday 2:00 a.m.
Siobhan’s skin tingled and itched, as if her entire body was a limb that had fallen asleep from having the blood flow cut off for too long. This prickling, stinging feeling traveled inward, through her flesh, bones, and the soft organs...
2025-09-11 22:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday 11:30 p.m.
Siobhan’s mind settled back into her body, which was close to Mom’s frame this time. Claudio must have dragged her unconscious body closer to him so that he could keep an eye on her while he worked. This time, Siobhan didn’t eve...
2025-09-08 23:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday, Time Unknown
When she became aware again, Siobhan was standing at the edge of something that looked somewhat like a happy little ornamental garden, though the shapes of things were crude and twisted, and it also looked nothing like an actual ga...
2025-09-05 02:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday 10:40 p.m.
Siobhan’s stunned expression must have pleased Claudio, because he tousled her hair and played painfully with her cheeks, pinching and tugging until tears sprang to her eyes. “I even suspect that the ability to give myself minor n...
2025-09-01 23:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday 10:30 p.m.
The workshop’s lead door swung open and someone entered, but Siobhan barely registered it, still breathless and heaving with raspy, broken cries.
Claudio crouched down beside her—she had fallen, even though she could n...
2025-08-29 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday 9:20 p.m.
Siobhan ran like she had never run before in her life, like a panicked deer fresh with hot lifeblood. Once she made it to the woods, she kept running, but tripped over something in the darkness and sent herself tumbling along the groun...
2025-08-26 01:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 15, Thursday 9:00 p.m.
Siobhan looked up to the sky above the village, leaning more of her weight against the tree supporting her as the world seemed to tilt and twist dizzyingly. Storm clouds like pus-filled boils hung low and heavy over the village, ready ...
2025-08-22 00:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 14, Wednesday 5:30 p.m.
Despite everything Siobhan had seen over the past few days, the sight of that single, dead hand poking out of the dirt sent rippling chills running from her scalp to her toes. She froze for an embarrassingly long time. Only when her l...
2025-08-14 23:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 13, Tuesday 3:00 p.m.
If she was going to make it to the other shaman’s house before everyone in the village died, she knew she needed to make a plan and set out quickly. But before that, she decided to pass by Rory’s house. Despite how annoying the youn...
2025-08-11 23:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 10, Saturday 8:30 p.m.
When Siobhan was young, Grandfather had told her a story about the time immediately following the Cataclysm. It was so long ago, and the world had been thrown into such devastation and chaos, that no one living now really knew much abo...
2025-08-08 00:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 10, Saturday 10:00 a.m.
Siobhan didn’t get any further information out of Old Lady Hebbers, but when she stepped outside again, she saw several people taking the road that went past her house. No doubt, they were desperate to see either Grandfather or Clau...
2025-07-31 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: A reminder that things get horrifically dark. I warned you before, and I’m warning you again.
Content Warnings for A Builder of Dreams:
Disturbing Imagery and Themes, Body Horror, Graphic Death, Suicide.
Siobhan
Month 5, Day 4, Sunda...
2025-07-24 23:43:58 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 5, Day 1, Thursday 4:00 a.m.
Why had Grandfather destroyed the sheep? They were evidence.
This was Siobhan’s first thought, but she realized quickly that, if these seemingly disconnected phenomena were caused by some malicious magic, and said magic...
2025-07-18 00:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 30, Wednesday 7:00 a.m.
Siobhan inhaled sharply as she matched the sensation of wrongness to what she had felt while staring at her treehouse. Except this time, it was so, so much worse. That had been a discordant note in a familiar melody. This was a tune she had...
2025-07-15 23:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 12, Saturday 4:00 p.m.
Siobhan spent a rather morose weekend filled half with cleaning, and half with doing everything she could to avoid cleaning. Her only reprieve had been a few hours when Grandfather taught and then supervised her use of the mending spell unti...
2025-07-11 02:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 11, Friday 12:30 p.m.
“Deal,” Siobhan said immediately. She nudged Rory, and he repeated it.
Claudio rubbed his chin and tilted his head to the side. “On second thought, I find myself unsure if I should trust a pair of children with something tha...
2025-07-04 00:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostAs previously mentioned, I am making some changes to this Patreon as part of my ongoing efforts to simplify my life and work, get adequate rest, and keep my limited energy focused where it's most critical—the writing.
In service of this, I am getting rid of my more expensive tiers that ...
Siobhan
Month 4, Day 11, Friday 10:50 a.m.
Siobhan’s emotions were as confused and jumbled as her thoughts. She and Rory continued spying on Grandfather and Claudio for a while longer, but both of them grew bored when nothing interesting happened, and it didn’t seem like the...
2025-06-27 00:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 11, Friday 10:00 a.m.
“What is it?” Rory asked, staring up at the treehouse covered in strange growths and tattered, gauzy cloth. His brows were lifted high with a combination of awe and fascination, but his mouth had twisted in disgust.
S...
2025-06-20 00:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 4, Friday 12:00 p.m.
“Claud, how do you and Master Kalvidasan know each other?” Aimee asked.
“We’ve known each other for a long time,” Claudio said. “He helped me out of a tough spot some years back.”
“How time flies,” Grandfath...
2025-06-13 00:14:16 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 5, Friday 8:00 a.m.
Siobhan stared in horrified fascination at the blood egg until Aimee lunged forward, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her away from the mixing bowl as if the contents might jump out and attack Siobhan.
The woman began drawing warding s...
2025-06-06 23:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-06-02 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 4, Day 5, Friday 5:00 a.m.
Siobhan had another dream about the tower. In this one, Mom was supporting herself in a strange, creepy position, her legs and arms spread wide as she held herself prone but a few inches off the floor, using her toes and fingertips. Her n...
2025-05-30 00:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-05-26 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: Before we start this book, I would like to post a general content warning for what's to come (not immediately, but eventually).
Content Warning: Disturbing Imagery and Themes, Body Horror, Graphic Death, Suicide.
If you've read my previous work, and especially...
2025-05-22 23:51:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-05-19 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
An accomplished prognos whose perceptive abilities have only improved despite her blinded eye, Gera has been adopted into the Lynwood family as sister to Lord Lynwood. She places great importance on her son Millennium's wellbeing. She is a believer in and a follower of the Raven Queen, and one of...
2025-05-15 21:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-05-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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