Greetings Everyone!
June was eight months ago, more than a half a year.
This is enough time to fall off the planet, but I didn’t!
Let’s start from scratch. So much has changed since
the last post so here’s my current standing and links to some of my e-zine stories
online. I recalled “The Rising of Julian Adams” for a major rewrite, yeah, my
one published book. Hence the short stories below to give you something to read
while I finish up this foundational rewrite.
I received kind 5 Star reviews but after writing three
more books in the series I had to return to the first and stop ignoring my own disappointment
over editing and style. The 2nd edition will be a great improvement
and I hope my readers will appreciate the extra work I put into it when it
returns to Kindle. For financial reasons I have to start small and expand its
availability across the other platforms. An author friend just informed me the CreateSpace was also free so I might have print-on-demand available sooner than I thought! I love holding a real book, don't you?
Book 2: “Empire 13” is no longer a novella. It’s a
full size book in a first draft. I can blame my beta readers for that but I
fully agree with them; it needed something more. I hope to publish it this
year.
Book 3: “The Great Expansion” is also in first draft
form and I would be overreaching to say it will be published this year.
Book 4: “Clash of the Orders” is, yep, in its first
draft form.
Books 5-7 (if my notes hold up) might wrap up this
series… but I have other plans with tie-in books, maybe novellas, and two very
different back storylines once The Rising series takes a rest. Then the sky’s
the limit…
Now I’ll give you the keys to three other online
short stories. They are in the December, February, and the coming March editions of
Valterra Magazine (all are still available as PDFs) I published “3 AM” in December. It’s a demonic ghost story with a message on unity.
In February, “Encounters with Trixie” was published.
It’s an apocalyptic journey through horror and a little grittier than I usually write.
In March, “Life in the Green” will come out. Does
life in the green refer to having money or something far more menacing? You
should know by now, but let me say it hints at one and fall headlong into the
other.
I also entered a Horror Flash Fiction contest. I’d
never written flash fiction so it was a fun experiment that took a couple hours
from reading the criteria to submitting it. It was like a creative writing
assignment and I learned from many other fine authors. I didn’t win, but it’s
certainly an interesting plunge into insanity. Enjoy my friends, followers, and
colleagues!
GOD OF OBSCURITY
I sit in obscurity, composed by my last opus. Demons
intimately steal my life-spark with incessant strokes of darkness. Bitterness
and disgust forge my thoughts ladled from a decaying heart. Mayhem overflows my
dank abode. Inside and out, my stool slips in excrement against a catacomb wall.
“Is it my own? Could I make such a mess of things?”
My feet draw to my chest. Would I not sink in search
of an absent floor?
“Touch not!” Yells something inside. A familiar
voice. Mine, once upon a time, now obscured in madness.
Fidgeting, I mumble to myself. No one can reach me
but inhuman things.
Shadows cast butchered visions in the wake of a
dream long gone. Nowhere I look relieves their torments. Be still my lips and
they may pass me by. Yet they confuse my name as something profane. They always
leave, I think, as I pull myself tighter on this decaying stool.
Once I was something before loathing ate all but the
final piece. I am the savior of the world! I must vanish to oblivion or condemn
it to live my nightmare.
This kindness redeem thee. I erase my bane.
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