T.M. Baumgartner

Jackpot Drift

1 - The Chaos Job (Apr-2021)
2 - The Chaos Connection (Sep-2021)
3 - The Chaos Nexus (Mar-2022)

The Portal Storms

0.5 - All Gremlins Great & Small (Jun-2022)
1 - All Rocs Wise & Wonderful (Sep-2022)
2 - All Basilisks Wild & Sparking (May-2023)

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  Shift Happens
  

  • Sep-2020
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  Everyone has an alternate form. Lucky people never shift into it. For everyone else, there’s the Magical Probation Department. MPD Officer Angela Jones has spent her entire career helping shifters get back into their human forms and ensuring...

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  The Chaos Job
  

  • Apr-2021
  • / Science Fiction
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  Jackpot Drift - 1
  

  Far from civilization and only partially terraformed, the colony of Jackpot Drift struggles to survive. Silver Tailingstown hides the forbidden chaos god within her by keeping to her hilltop farm. When her damaged AI begins herding sheep into a sy...

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  The Chaos Connection
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Science Fiction
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  Jackpot Drift - 2
  

  When your best weapons are chaos and a grudge… As the only nanobot technician on Jackpot Drift, Sil repairs everything from games to oxygen sensors. If she could just keep the goats out of the house, life would be perfect… well, almost perfec...

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  Dragon Freehold
  

  • Feb-2022
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  In the shipping port of Harbor Crag, dragon magic protects the city, and a greedy duke controls the dragons. Freeholder Lisette climbs the tower with the perfect plan -- steal the duke’s money to pay her shop’s taxes. But a second thief comp...

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  The Chaos Nexus
  

  • Mar-2022
  • / Science Fiction
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  Jackpot Drift - 3
  

  When chaos and logic collide...A tiny colony at the edge of the universe — high clan looking to escape, low clan trying to get by, and bickering AIs with nowhere else to go. Also in the mix: competing gods, newly created flitterkin, and homici...

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  All Gremlins Great & Small
  

  • Jun-2022
  • / Fantasy
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  The Portal Storms - 0.5
  

  Four years ago, Nessa’s careful life imploded when her husband disappeared during the first portal storm. Shimmering gateways to thousands of worlds appeared and vanished, sweeping away the unlucky. Later, the portals settled, but only a suicidal r...

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  All Rocs Wise & Wonderful
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / Fantasy
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  The Portal Storms - 1
  

  Four years after the portals first appeared, people have adapted. Chaotic and irregular, the portals transport anything touching them between worlds -- often stranding people on the other side. Now a wounded verdiran -- from the only known sen...

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  All Basilisks Wild & Sparking
  

  • May-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  The Portal Storms - 2
  

  First, do no harm. Xenotic veterinarian Nessa Cunningham is focussed on her practice and supporting her verdiran housemate. After all, it’s her fault Fred has been ostracized by his people. When a sick verdiran baby -- Fred’s cousin -- ...

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