Tag: writing
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Patina – Chapter 151
Elissa believed that there would be light. Wasn’t it what she was trying to do? Create a new light? Instead she was walking in the darkness. Not in the void of her mind. She was outside. The Threads were not with her. For the first time since she had memory, her mind felt… alone. It…
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How to kill your novel
Last month I was trying to answer a friend’s thorny question: “How do you manage to come up with a new chapter every day?”. While I was squirming on my seat like a hooked worm, trying to overcome my inadequacies (should I tell him sometimes I manage to even fill a chapter with all different…
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Patina – Chapter 150
Sadja! Who was calling her? She was so tired. The assault was relentless… her arms ached and her heart begged her to just lay down and sleep. Sadja! Came the voice again. She blinked, annoyed at the calls. Why couldn’t they just leave her alone? She had done nothing bad to anyone. She did not…
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Patina – Chapter 149
To him, the nightmare just never really ended. It began with Lenora’s takeover and the first time the town had been overrun – and back then the Generator had come back more or less on its own. They had had a chance to fight. Now what chance did he have? “Leave her alone,” he wheezed,…
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The Rite – Post-Apocalyptic Short Story 2/2
In a world darkened by the Faepocalypse, a young woman has to betray her kin for one final act of love. Sara held her rifle close to her chest – at any moment something could jump put of the shadows. The blade of her flashlight cast the straight shapes of the trees out of the…
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The Rite – Post-Apocalyptic Short Story 1/2
In a world darkened by the Faepocalypse, a young woman has to betray her kin for one final act of love. What others deemed madness, Sara deemed a necessity. She had spent the last three days struggling with the idea, rationality and honed survival instinct gnawing at the need she felt. What would the point…
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Patina – Chapter 148
Sadja was being eaten alive. She screamed inwardly as laughing mouths bit into her psyche, ripping it off in a thousand direction at once, each bit a flash of pain. The roar of the mind attack went beyond anything she had experienced so far: even Verna’s power was gentler and smoother, this was just onslaught.…
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The Forever Ache – Horror Short Story
A young man goes hiking in Southern Europe. He sees something he feels he wasn’t supposed to, and the experience stings. I remember reading all those scary hiking stories on the internet, and never giving them any credit. Besides, we were going to hike in Sicily, and that’s the farthest place away from anything supernatural…
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Patina – Chapter 147
The euphoria from the Generator kicking back into life did not last long. Cries of hope and joy ran through the defenders, but steam clouds did not follow. The heat did not come back, and the Eerie were still trying to overcome any resistance, rising each time like the mounting tide of black hunger they…
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Gold after the Flood – Patina Short Story
Three girls on a fishing boat find something unexpected. In a world that has collapsed to the power of the Fae, is there a thing such as a gift with no strings attached? The ancient church’s bell-tower still stuck out of the water line. It stood straight, if much worse for wear with its bricks…
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