October12
Previously on BfR: We all have a job to do… but for Lyla Lynne Bean (a.k.a. Lilly Tanner, a.k.a. Lylandria the Destroyer) “work” entails maintaining a cover story of being the girlfriend of one Buckingham G. Price (a.k.a. Grace Buckingham Price, a.k.a. Grace Rowell) – which can be decidedly difficult considering that her supposed boyfriend dates the daughter of her bosses’ counterpart in the U.K., and further complicated by said fake boyfriend’s obvious infatuation with one Katrina Kalamity (a.k.a. Ildiko Balsors, a.k.a. Combat Unit K.H.A.T.R.A.) … What is a fake girlfriend to do now that her charge is in the hospital and family is in town?
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October12
Previously on BfR: Just what has that crazy Plague Zombie Thirty-Eight been up to? What is this weapon he keeps going on about, and of course the most pressing question of all, just who is he anyway? Nope, not time for that yet… sorry to get your hopes up. In the meantime here is some regularly scheduled angst…
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October3
Previously on BfR: While Lyla L. Bean, a.k.a. Lilly Tanner, might have been going through a rough patch recently, there is always someone in her crazy family ready to have his or her life thrown even further down the crapper. Remember Rory Tanner, the cop who quit due to a slight case of alien abduction? The one legged wonder with a hot, but deceptive, girlfriend? The one who started hiding from the Network after meeting up with what appeared to be a way too advanced Undead AI? Yeah… him…
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October3
Previously on BfR: Programs seems to be getting a little uppity in the Network nowadays with Undead insurrections taking place alongside devious violet haired ninjas with brain hackers. Even relatively innocuous little constructs like Vend-o-Trons have been running amok and attacking the humans brave enough to log into the virtual realm. Still humans always seem to have the advantage…. Or do they?
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September12
I don’t want you to think that I’ve forgotten about my little coterie of BfR fandom out there. I know that this summer has been long and dereft of new episodes and I wish I had a better reason than the crude, stereotypical “writer’s block” to give to you all, but I don’t. I spent this summer in a Bucky-like haze of raiding in World of Warcraft, working too much and dealing with some personal issues that left me feeling empty inside. I guess you could say I lost my heart for a time, and I am sorry for being so distant. I couldn’t sleep last night, but that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I drove to work and listened to Real Synthetic Audio and for the first time in a while I had visions of magic-craving virtual dragons, Hungarian hotties, and anthropomorphic cat men. It came crushing into my head that I was avoiding BfR because I thought I had failed. It’s no secret that I didn’t like how season 2 started, and I was getting frustrated with how to “fix it”. It’s like I could see in my head where I wanted to go but couldn’t quite find my way. I stopped to read what I had done, and it occured to me that maybe it’s not quite as terrible as I led myself to believe. I saw for the first time in ages a glimmer of hope.
Bytes from Reality has often been a side project of sorts in my head - a distraction from my “real” writing like the books I’ve been working on, but now it occurs to me that some of the best charicterization and dialogue that I’ve ever created is right here in this little serial, and that trivializing it is a disservice to all those who’ve supported me for the past 2 years. So I thank you guys, and I’m coming back to my senses.
Yes there is another episode finished. Let me just edit it and it will be up by the weekend. I would like to add here that I wouldn’t be this successful with BfR without the support of 3 great guys - Mark “Bucky” Buckingham, Nick “Yeah he’s Juan” Carr, and Dan “the super editor”. Hugs to you all!
–Rache (a.k.a. KK)