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Hi everyone,

I've added more scenes to chapter 176, but it's not quite finished yet. I'll wrap it up in the next few days and then move on to the next chapter.

I hope you enjoy the additional scenes.

Best wishes,

Tefler

Comments

Erotic Poetic

Haha 🤣 Who bet he wouldn’t finish the chapter? If Tefler finishes the chapter in the next couple days, I’ll eat my hat!

Dani Vega

Thank you, Tef! I'm waiting for the completion before I start reading 176, though

Erotic Poetic

I’m still gonna read the whole thing tonight though 😅😏

Erotic Poetic

Aaaannnd there goes the placeholder 🤦🏽‍♂️

Puttanegra Ficondo

Damn, one third of a chapter a month. This is getting worth it just to read the lame excuse of the month.

MVFast

Interesting. Not what I was expecting (which is a good thing!)

Unctadsk

If Tefler complete the chapter before 30th July (Tokiyo time) Sun will rise in West. Any one to bet.

Rhune

If you read the information in his post and place holder carefully, like you read his chapters, he said he would finish the chapter and work on the back log. Nowhere in either did he say he would post any of the work. I'll bet that it's coming at the end of the month and not one day earlier.

rich ed

I was selling that bridge last one

B S

hey I am seeing the download in Chinese? anyone help with changing it to English?

DevilDoc82

I've got some beachfront properties I'm looking to sell, wait that makes me sound intelligent, properties to sale... that's better.

Mick Peaper

Time to give up on Teller I think. Was a good read but now a con.

Erotic Poetic

Wael’rakash has the artifact that keeps his smaller empire in the fight, correct? I was hoping there was a way for John to acquire it… Even his matriarch wants to be free of him… and she’s only been with him for 50 years and still has her memory. Hopefully, it won’t take a year (our time) to find out what the relic is and get him into a duel with John. How many chapters does it take to get through a day now? Seems like it takes about 6 months per day. At this rate, it’ll be Christmas before Dana gets to the Star forge…

andrew finlayson

Yup I feel exactly the same way. Ive been a member here since 2017, and this is the end for me.

AzureReader

The last 20 chapters covered 3 days, so about 6-7 chapters per day. This month and last month were 1/3 chapter deliveries, but Tefler does deliver more sometimes so his average is 1/2 chapter per month. Which means it takes 12 months to write 6 chapters covering 1 day in TSM time. 12 hours to recover from the most recent jump. Jump to Kythshara, then 12 hours to recharge. Then jump to Genthalas plus 12 hours to recharge. That’s 36 hours, which will take Tefler 18 months to write at his established pace. So it will be Christmas when they jump to the Star Forge, assuming that’s the next jump. Just not this Christmas.

Big Dude

Usually, it is an inland land property, large, with fruit producing trees, and well maintained. It ends up being a swamp.

Jim Owens

Wow, not even 1 chapter, just a couple of scenes. This guy has really lost his writing mojo.

Mick Peaper

I agree he's become totally untrustworthy now which is such a shame as a few years ago the sky was his oyster. Living the writing dream with a great income stream, now soon back to a mediocre office job or benefits.

Gotchacoverd

Just want to point out that this placeholder was paid for on June 30, 2024. It has now be one full year without completed delivery of this prepaid chapter.

Don Garnett

Well he still has over 6 thousand followers with 3,900 paid. Making 4,500. Per chapter. Or each month. He had 8,000 paid followers in 2020 so he is slowly loosing clients

Don Garnett

Both C.H. Darkstrider and Antiproton write very good and interesting g stories similar to Tef but without the drama. Darkstride publishes multiple stories at the same time.

Bob Cat

Shocked. Another place holder. Finally delivered a finished chapter that was paid for a year ago. With the promise of finishing it soon. Time to cut my losses and walk.

Achromicbethel

Unbelievable!! For a website that contains sexual content to censor a comment with a disparaging but completely SFW description is ludicrous. All I said was a variation on this authors continual excuse for lack of progress re F.L.U. Your imagination can fill in the blanks

Jim Owens

He is so full of shit now that he can't tell what is true or bullshit. He is just trying to placate the paying public without giving us what we pay for. His excuses mean not shit until he redeems himself and gets to work writing multiple chapters per month for at least 3 months in a row. Which will never happen. I wish the story sucked so I could stop reading it or anticipating each months pitiful release.

Neil Shepherd

Surely you could have just finished 176?? This releasing dribs and drabs of chapters is nonsense

bumpinthenight

Paid for the chapter a year ago, released the first bit at the start of this month waited until the end of the month to release some more on the last day of the month and it's still not done... Well I'm done ETA words

Puttanegra Ficondo

If you are into erotic storie and you can stomach his level of TDS, Corrupting Power is amazing as well and highly professional in delivering six stories at once.

Wavern Z

This is where the milking comes into full swing.

Michael56Smith

... any extra TSM is appreciated, ... thank you, ... ;-) ttfn

Calvin Martin

Are you fucking kidding me?! You couldn’t even finish this one chapter this month?! Ffs.

Xexsu

Yep now he's just pissing on us without the courtesy of even calling it rain I haven't/wasen't even reading this shit anymore anyway yall take care I wanted to watch the train wreck but fuck this guy.

G

Tefler, oh Tefler, how could you fuck this up so badly? You even achieved 'the secret', but you've let it slip through your hands. Do you know how many people would give anything to be in your position? What is 'the secret'? Pre internet, the only way to make decent money, is to get lots and lots of people to give you a little bit of money each. This was largely achieved by being in a band, and getting a record deal, or writing a best-selling book, or by trading other peoples stocks. You managed to get a few thousand people to send you a few quid each month! And yet this wasn't enough. All you had to do was find a few hours a month to sit down and write, or work on the plot. You even gave up working, and that made the situation worse! Can't quite get my head around this monumental fuck up! No reply from Michael56 please! Even he might leave this page soon. Unless he's just a sadist.

G

Same.

Hendrix Morton

Looks like you will be waiting another month or 2 to get this one finished..."A few days..." My ass....

Michael56Smith

Well, ... you don't know if Tef was goofing off or had some really awful problems, .... since we do not 'know', let's not assume the worst, ... ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

Oh well, ... you don't know if Tef was goofing off or had some really awful problems, .... (Likely it would be something in between), but since we do not 'know', let's Not assume the worst, ... ;-) ttfn

Ben

I would agree with you a year ago but come on. This far into it what has tefler done to keep the benefit of the doubt? We should assume the worst, but in reality it’s probably a way more boring or conventional problem.

Metal

Keep after it Tefler, may the road rise with you.

wally ballou

Smith's usual response since he so enamored with Tefler. Wonder, when has Tefler not been sick? What was he sick from this time: withdrawal symptoms?

AzureReader

Moving on from the monthly gripe fest… I thought the Waelentiri scene was interesting. Wasn’t it the Gahlkirians that were in a war with the Waelentiri? Their progenitor seems to be following one of the patterns Gahl’ described about the pathetic final days of an empire. The Waelentiri don’t seem to realize yet that the enemy progenitor has been vanquished. Which is not surprising. Even if Waelentiri fleets were actively engaged with Gahlkirians and they witnessed the Gahlkirian’s disengaging and returning home, I don’t think it would occur to them it was because the enemy progentior died. A normal progenitor death results in every thrall killing themselves. Thralls don’t seem to know that, but Wael’entir (or whatever his name is), would know. Any reports of odd Gahlkirian behavior, such as a sudden but orderly retreat would, look different than what would happen if every Gahlkirian thrall just shot themselves. So where is this going? It seems like Xar’ keeps progenitors at war in pairs. I’m guessing Tef is introducing the idea that when one progenitor is defeated John is going to need to do something about they other progenitor. Even if the Waelentiri don’t know what’s going on they are going to realize pretty quickly that the Gahlkirian’s are retreating, not fighting. That’s going to prompt more aggressive behavior on the part of the Waelentiri. The Gahlkirian’s may have ended their war with the Waelentiri but not the other way around… at least not until John claims them. And the enemy empire of the second progenitor John just killed. They could really use a wormhole generator with nearly instant recharge times to keep up with what needs to be done to defeat all these empires, apparently in pairs. Plus, as Irillith found, there is the potential to more easily claim all the empires recently defeated by each progenitor, before they can be claimed again, or while their new progenitor is weak.

John the 5th

Just finished this latest offering. Very enjoyable, eagerly awaiting the next.

Leon Shelton

Tefler is starting to sound like an American politician telling everyone it'll get done but it takes time if we don't do it this session we will get it done next session if you re-elect us, it just the way its going to be (we get rich, by putting/keeping you down) No respect for followers, I know first hand how hard physical ailments can effect your body and mind (been there done that) if you after more then a year haven't gotten back on the horse so to speak, you need to seek physiological help or throw in the towel and just quit writing period. Not like Tefler is going to read any of this unless he does it as someone else and tells people that we should give him the benefit of doubt the we don't know what may or may not have happened this month that prevented him from finishing what was started at the end of the month before. JMHO.

Michael56Smith

So, ... Tef is a corrupt Politition now? ,,, ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

Just how much of behind the scenes' stuff/background is found only in Tef's head? .... ;=) ttfn

Greg Hill

Naaw. he has a plan for what he's doing, just a not very good or covert plan! With a "less than personality"(shoulder chip), that leads him to sulk at criticism of his ways and methods is (mainly) what has led to this placeholder situation in the first place...it has led to this In part; due to the prev. mentioned personality, plus a hard core cult of enablers he sets great store by, mostly encouraging him to write these 1000 word chapters...(supposedly to catch up these placeholders: Chapter # 150 was 263KB in size but he hasn't crossed 100KB but 4 times since then, with the largest being 106KB(1)...yet Dude hasn't even tried to put a dent in the backlog. But his friends/real patrons(?) instead of taking him to task they still encourage him in his ongoing plans/scheme of monthly fraudulent activity. They're just as responsible as he is...y'all know who I'm referring to also...call em' "the usual suspects"...

Greg Hill

Yeah, he IS...He shows all the properties of the MAGA politician/scammer currently in office; lies piled on top of lies, piled atop even more lies! In the hopes that everyone doesn't see that "I've told this lie already"..."it was a lie then, but it doesn't count now 'cause this lie is new, it's over 30 days old"...doubly compounded by those Tef cult members that follow in his wake to defend the lying... And btw Mr. Shelton, he reads these comments "never doubt that", He reads every last one, and uses them to inflame his cult leader psyche, one of the reasons he only puts out 1/3 chapters now.

20 ton

If you had an empire where a young prog had landed, could you raise him with foreknowledge of what was coming. Something so terrifying would push most into accepting what looks to be a good deal but is really selling ones soul. John really doesn’t want to rule the galaxy so after beating X let the young honorable progs have their own empire?

Big Dude

Poor Greg Hill. TDS is strong in this one.

Calvin Martin

Oh come on man. This chapter was paid for a year ago. He dropped the first part of it last month, saying he would finish it up. A month later and he STILL hasn’t finished this ONE chapter?! It’s bullshit and you know it.

20 ton

In all honesty how long of actual time did it take Tef to write these scenes? All were continuations. Nothing that wasn’t part of his overall plan. What most would consider a great opportunity to turn talent into a comfortable living falls short monthly. I’m upset my job is only averaging 4o hours and this refinery isn’t as nice as his home. Given how much of a hole he’s dug for himself, he still shows ZERO effort to catch up. You can’t argue that fact because all drops are the last minute of the month so he can collect his paycheck from our pockets. I’ve waited far longer for “Winds of Winter “but at least I didn’t prepay.

Michael56Smith

Upon my latest re-read, I noted that at the beginning of #176, Lynette was packing for a trip, ... with her more petite sized clothes, I assume, .... I wondered if she has a false panel in her suitcase, with her older/larger clothes on the top, just in case she is searched? .... anyway, carry on, .... ;-) ttfn

20 ton

I doubt even as just an admiral she had been searched in recent memory. Her height stayed the same and her weight was just redistributed. With not wanting fitted clothes, there probably isn’t a dramatic size change to an unsuspecting eye. The real question which she hasn’t had time to think about is will she remain fleet admiral with a baby? If not who would replace her?

ThunderBird Two

I did think back when she was "upgraded", that they should fake her having some work done, so the disguise doesn't have so much to do, and things like the tailoring of the clothes etc can be explained away. Just imagine how the other Admirals would react if they found out how she looked now, and was using a disguise! Lots of accusations of being under Johns control, Mutiny etc ....

Greg Hill

Hey Leroy, your daddy, he's callin' you man...he needs your help vetting more lies!

Leon Shelton

Hey Greg, I feel sorry for you. At least I can admit and know that both sides lie. Whereas it seem you either can't or don't want to admit it, that's really sad and what's wrong with society today. It also sounds like certain Admirals in Tefler's story. Take care and have a great day sir. 😉

Michael56Smith

... Families with school age children, like Tef has, they can expect their grubby kids to bring home any number of harmful germs to share, ... so, there are few illness surprises to be found here, ... ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

... Huh? ...I would think there would be much size difference between a 20-year-old super model and a 53-year-old flabby Admiral, ... I thought that was an obvious one, ... I also would've thought that Alyssa and her magic sewing talents would have helped out, ... but Tef missed it too, ... Lynette would need to hide all her clothes that really fit her, as the halo - illusion of her older self would show her in he bigger uniforms, ... ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

-- And no long-term military officer, like Lynette, would've agreed to John and Tef's ridiculous Idea, ,.. ;-) ttfn.

20 ton

Without “space magic “ her reality was death or being paralyzed. Almost any alternative would be acceptable and this one would have exceeded anyone wildest dreams. Alyssa used the term redistributed and was able to alter her uniform. No one spent much time thinking of Lynette’s old shape but I pictured more out of shape cylindrical not obese. Do you really notice by looking at your wife’s clothes when she moves between small or medium. Only a few know what’s under the disguise and those that are looking at the projection wouldn’t be too interested in looking close at clothes sizes.

20 ton

I agree Thunderbird but the situation has been too chaotic in the few months to put this plan into action.

Garrett

It's cute you still believe he has children.

Michael56Smith

,,, and I believe that he once had a leaking roof too, .... ;-) ttfn

MVFast

…in the next few days…

Hendrix Morton

Gotta know by now 'next few days' = End of the month....

MVFast

I had hoped the “next few days” might have translated to “a week or two”. Sigh.

ThunderBird Two

And the Admirals are as much (probably more) politicians, as much as military leaders. We all know politicians would sell their grannys for a vote.

Unctadsk

Have the next few days will never come before end of month. Will this person never rectify himself and hs greed.

Myrnalin

I just had an idea, why even fight the Brimorian aquatic race? John could just take away their workforce and watch as their society collapse, Our stealth tech is much better than their detection ability and with Helena I am sure we could convince entire cities of abandoned to board an "invisible magic boat" that will take them to a place where they can be free.

Michael56Smith

.... humm, it might be better and a lot easier to just blast the Fish Faces back to the Aquatic Stone-Age, ... then they can be the second class -citizens while the Abandoned are reeducated to self-rule, ... -- and by the time they fully put the brakes onto the lusty Abandoned, their population will be over 2 billion, maybe as much as 10 billion Merfolk, ...;-) ttfn

ThunderBird Two

They are spread out in many little villages across multiple planets. It would take forever, and give ample opportunity for the Fish faces to do terrible things to the remaining. I suspect John wants to punish and drag it all out into the open. So it will be some sort of public action that frees them, along with the nymph.

Big Dude

Past halfway in July and still mind shocked at our once great author's lack of precision. One could ask why, but why?

Michael56Smith

Note to TSM's many Story-Hungry Fans, ... the sentence " but it's not quite finished yet. I'll wrap it up in the next few days and then moon to the next chapter." ... this did not mean that he had any intension of dropping the completed chapter ASAP, ... Sorry to disappoint you, ... but I would not expect any new TSM for our eyes until the EOM, ... ;-) ttfn

Cocchi Tech

Typically to 99.9999999% of the human race a "few days" means less than 4 days.... not 18+ days later to wrap it up... and it's not likely this chapter will be completed today before midnight

Cocchi Tech

Why? He got yet another summer cold, that he seems to be the only human being these minor annoyances send into severe coma's and unresponsive for a miraculous period of time that always manages to clear up 14 minutes before the EOM payment kicks in

Greg Hill

Mr Shelton, still using those deflection tactics I see...do you(in particular) feel it's okay to tell lies because you feel others tell them also, does that makes it all seem "fair" to you, like an "I gotcha" moment..if your answer is what i'd suspect it is then all I'll say is "whatever dude!"

MVFast

While I too expect it at the end of the month, saying “in a few days” wasn’t wise.

MVFast

Future thoughts. What happens if Joh claims a group of thralls, but one of them is pregnant or has a young progenitor baby, that’s been seeded there? Can Xar tell if they’re claimed? Or does he just assume they’re free if he knows their progenitor was killed?

MVFast

Ran… John’s father is potentially a very large subplot alone. Will he survive through the end of the story? If his mom outlives him, will John have to claim her or find a way for a matriarch to overcome the grief and loss of her progenitor?

Cocchi Tech

So just a few days is 22 days and counting?!

20 ton

Having a thrall baby from a prog father shouldn’t be a problem if he breaks the original bond. He is already quite taken with Larn’s daughter. X didn’t enter John’s life until he started claiming the girls. Killing your adoptive parents seems strange after getting into a poly relationship but I’ll give Tef poetic license on that point. That story has only been hinted at with Lord Gally

MVFast

Hmmm. I wasn’t clear. Progenitors have many, MANY thrall babies. Females. They’re not a problem. What they rarely have are sons. Sons will become progenitors… So, how would John deal with them? I doubt he could “replace” the child’s guide. He doesn’t want a progenitor son himself, so how will he deal with someone else’s progenitor son?

MVFast

Hmmm. I wasn’t clear. Progenitors have many, MANY thrall babies. Females. They’re not a problem. What they rarely have are sons. Sons will become progenitors… So, how would John deal with them? I doubt he could “replace” the child’s guide. He doesn’t want a progenitor son himself, so how will he deal with someone else’s progenitor son? Addendum, Someone else’s progenitor son before he comes of age, and his ‘inheritance’. After that, even if young, once he ascends into his inheritance, he’s a progenitor and will be dealt with accordingly.

20 ton

Tef never got into the details but John told the girls they could decide boy or girl. It was also talked about how he hated his species and wouldn’t continue it I assumed that one out of every twentieth child was a thrall boy but with tweaking at the genetic level you got a prog. Unless I missed them the details are still in Tef’s mind.

MVFast

I think we can assume any male children of John’s won’t be progenitors. Males with Maliri will be Maliri males. With humans, they’d be human males, etc unless the girls change his mind. He’s not worried about Alyssa and she’s a progenitor. The obvious solution would be to give any male a ‘guide’ with his own values. To me, that’s an obvious solution.

MVFast

And yes, the details are still in Tef’s mind.

Erotic Poetic

While John told his young matriarchs that they could choose boy or girl, he also told Alyssa that his children wouldn’t be like him. Yet he turned Alyssa into a “progenitor”. However, it seems John had the power within himself to rebirth the Kyth’faren with Alyssa and his human girls, as they are an unaltered seed race that seems to be based on part of the Kyth’faren genome created by Xar and used in Mael’nerak’s genetic experiment on Terra. I’d love a storyline where the Kyth’faren are reborn through Terrans as the next step in human evolution.

MVFast

Interesting!

Hendrix Morton

Since the progenitor can control what gender the child will be at conception time, I don't think there would be any male children, unless the progenitor was told to.... Those infant progenitors that get sent to replace the defeated/killed progenitors have to come from somewhere... The other males of the thrall species would come from the 20-1 ratio on "normal" thrall couples having children...

Hendrix Morton

It's what he does, has always done, to make himself feel better....Of course nothing will drop before the end of the month...

Kirk Gero

I think Get should go back to a full time job a do this on the side again, he at least did a full chapter a month then. I love the story but jeez we've gotten 1.5 chapters in 4 months

Neil Shepherd

Still waiting for the completion 🤷🏻‍♂️

Michael56Smith

I had a question way back when Henry Voss got patents for Dana's ideas / schematics? (made her some credits) So, what sir name did she use (it was never said), .... She could not use Dana Blake when the official story was that John would be marrying Calara, .... So, was it Dana Doe? -- In a recent Fanfiction story with TSM characters, ... when Dana chose her new name, 'Dana' ,,, she also chose the last name of 'Marant' and officially became Alyssa's sister, ... I liked that, ... ;-) ttfn

20 ton

As an orphan with spotty now destroyed records it may not be that important. Especially with friends like Lynette and a very impressed Henry wanting to protect the golden goose. They never mentioned the patents on the gravtubes. It’s something that I wish someone would really invent but an unintended consequence might be women not wearing skirts and dresses. I do admire a nice set of legs. Skorts??????

Michael56Smith

possible future Patents (for Orphanage funding): - Maliri version of extra improved Air Filtration System for ships and Stations. - Ashanath based grav-tube elevators. - better VI and robotics technology. - Armor equipping frames. - better lighter Armor based on Kirrix Armor. - individual rail-gun rifles, ... - individual personal force-shields. -- improved 'Sentry' squad Armor and Weapons, ... - Individual doses of Eldritch Elixir [1/2 pint] (synthetic Progenitor Cum) a health tonic, - more, .... :-) ttfn

20 ton

How much could you make offsetting transportation costs with your own gate network ?

20 ton

Would it have to be humans only to rebuild the Kyth’faren. X used the Kyth as a template to manipulate into the thrall races. With more feedings could Rill become Kyth’faren too?

20 ton

I believe you are right about prog babies. Rahn was influenced by the Kyf library. John is the only Prog to discuss a guide. The only other prog to discuss his childhood was Gal and he didn’t say anything about a guide. Are we sure all progs have a guide?

20 ton

John’s issues with his guide were caused from not understanding what a guide was. Didn’t know anything about it or know anyone that would. The guide was nullified with meditation and mental control achieved with martial arts. Gathering any prog children with the fore knowledge of what unique experiences they are facing could allow you to train them and prepare them to refuse X. Terror and the unknown were always in X’s favor. It was the Kyf knowledge/ tampering along with not being guided into being an arrogant prick, that helped John make his decision.

Michael56Smith

... oops, you are correct, Sirname is the archaic version of the modern Surname, .... oh well, I am an old fart, ... -- but I still think that the 'old farts' spelling makes more sense, ... ;-) ttfn

Shelton

I am currently reading "DuncanIdaho2014" stories on the TSM universe. He is on fanfictionDOTnet website. He has quite a few stories about John and the girls. One such story, 'Lion's Legend', has had 4 or 5 chapters added in just the last couple of weeks. Very interesting take on our favorite "John". I love it. Keeps my addiction to TSM going even though Tef has slowed down a bit.

Erotic Poetic

Interesting concept… Although I wonder if the thrall species were altered for their specific intention to such a degree that they are incapable of reverting to the Kyth’faren base model, while it seems Mael’nerak’s had the intention of hosing an experiment to see how they might evolve through mutation, to see if Terrans might eventually evolve into something similar to, or not surpassing the Kyth’faren. Not a mindless experiment at all for an immortal… It would also explain why he had Nexus monitoring them to make sure they/we didn’t go too far off the rails ab become as powerful as or worse than Progenitors…

MVFast

Tef hasn’t explicitly said, but Terrans may have been designed to be as close as possible to the original unmodified race of people that became the progenitors and their thralls. He HAS said progenitors and thralls are genetically modified from whatever their base stock originally was.

MVFast

We may be getting an answer “soon”. Perhaps her surname is “Walker”? Charles Harris could have suggested “Blake” to him since he knows John is sleeping with all the girls.

MVFast

In California, it’s July 31st, 11:36 PM.

Erotic Poetic

When was the last time Tefler missed a deadline? I was really looking forward to getting my monthly dose (partial or not) of TSM. Usually we can count on the last hour of the last day of the month… 😒

Cocchi Tech

Thankfully Tef hasn't gone ST:TNG "Skant" for John

Michael56Smith

..... Tom Walker changing his surname to Blake? ,,, and joining the Invictus crew, ... ;-) ttfn

Michael56Smith

.... TSM Progenitor - birds and bees 101, .... ;-) ttfn

MVFast

This is why John could have male children. He could give them a guide that would help, instead of one that had to be contained. That doesn’t answer the original question. Let’s say, Thrall race “gray” (or violet, aqua, or whatever) is out there, and X told a progenitor to leave a son there. Then, John unknowingly goes to claim them before the young progenitor has claimed his birthright, what does John do with him? Probably this potential problem can be ignored. They spend thousands of years growing their empire and then hundreds of years fighting each campaign. After losing, it could be hundreds of years before X sends a progenitor to leave a son. The thirty to eighty years of a young progenitor’s beginning ascent is a tiny span of time.

AzureReader

Tefler never misses a deadline, if only to post a placeholder to get some money. About once a year he can’t manage to write a single word in a month due to the sniffles or whatever.