HOW TO GET ACCESS AND READ THE STORIES
Two stories every month. One is free for everyone. No account, no newsletter, nothing. The other is for Last Days Dispatch subscribers, and this page explains exactly how that works.
1. Subscribe
Join the Last Days Dispatch with your email. That is the newsletter: every month, the subscriber story arrives on the 1st. You can register with the form below, at the bottom of each blog post, sometimes on a banner above the site, and there are links in the footer at the bottom of each web pages.
Want more stories? Read two new in-universe stories free every month when you join the Dispatch!
2. Register on the site
Create a site account with the same email you used for the newsletter. That is the key. Registration is what unlocks the member pages.
- Visit the Account section available on the footer of every pages.
2. Click My Account. If you are not logged in, you should see the option to register and the option to log in. Log in with the email used for your newsletter registration. If not, register with the same email.
3. When you are logged in, you should see the page informing you that you are. You can also manage your newsletter preferences here or your orders if you have chosen to order trade paperbacks or hardcovers from us. If you are confirmed logged in, you should have access to every stories for subscribers. And those exclusive ones depending on your tier.
3. Read
As a registered subscriber you can read every subscriber story on the site — right here, in epub format, no downloads, no files. You also get the whole back catalogue: every subscriber story already published, bonus content on novels and short stories, free stories, plus the novellas and the exclusive miniseries, both published and still to come. The later you registered, the more tier stories stay out of reach. The first 100 subscribers have access to everything, the first 200 have access to everything minus the first 100 exclusives, and so on, until we reach 1000 subscribers. After that number, there will be no more tiers. Additional material will be added as we conclude the series.
If you are not logged in at all, you will get this warning on a normal subscription.
There are stories accessible only to what we call tiers: First 100 subscribers, First 200, First 300 and so on. You will not be able to read those if you are not in that tier. However, despair not. People who do not read their tier stories within two months get a warning email to reactivate. If they do not, they get moved to the normal subscribers and they lose their tier access. The other subscribers then get moved down one place down, either changing tier or at least getting close to one. The idea is to reward the early adopters and those who are genuinely into reading all the stories.
If you are a subscriber but are trying to see a story that is not in a tier where you belong, you will see a warning telling you. The idea is to reward the earlier fans. Those who do not use the tiers will get pruned back to normal subscribers after two months. Users that change tier will get an email warning them.
No subscription? No problem.
No account, no newsletter, nothing. Every month, one story is simply free — read it right here.
Member access is tied to your newsletter email. If you change emails, update your subscription so the key keeps working.
Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.