I love a good rabbit hole. I fell into this one with a mouldering duke and came out with the chills. Back in 2015, for the first time ever, I started writing with the barest bones of a partial outline. For me, that was a list of six scenes with a short paragraph explaining what... Continue Reading →
Forgotten
A short standalone story about the depths of darkness we'd endure for those we love. This is already outlined, so I'll add it to my NaNoWriMo pile in case I finish the Vic fics. *** Clio needs three things to come alive in the world to which she truly belongs: the touch of her human... Continue Reading →
Two Souls & a Pocket Watch
When the Thames is alive with the dead, who you gonna call? This is another spin-off story from NTSR. It's fully outlined and will be written during NaNoWriMo. Uriel and Bel are back after Puddles, this time taking a back seat. The story is set in 1900 around the old London Dock. *** Vampire daddies... Continue Reading →
Magpie’s Garden
I've been working on a book of short stories for a while now. I'm not posting excerpts yet, but here's a brief blurb for Magpie's Garden. The first time a hedgehog rolled into his garden and grew legs, Magpie thought he'd imagined it. Magpie hasn't spoken a word since he lost his daughter. When he... Continue Reading →
No Good Comes: Theo meets the body snatcher
He ignored the face one, picking up the nude. “Oh my god, is that what my knob looks like when I’m dead?” This is a first draft partial scene (currently scene 18) from No Good Comes. Stephen King is now Theodore Eidolon. Erin's POV. *** “It’s Saturday, for god’s sake. Don’t you people have homes... Continue Reading →
Meet Kite
“In my dream, this was the beginning. Errol said the domino is a figurative thing. He said the events of this dream signal Newton’s third law. The domino that topples the rest. The start of a new war.” Kite first appears in Of Blood and Oil, the third book in the series. A trans nephilim... Continue Reading →
DeMobbed: a scene
This is a first draft of what is currently scene 22. Context: the runaways have just spent their first night on the run in a motel room. They wake to find a man where there should be a dog. Note: a springer is someone who can boost locks just by running their hands over them.... Continue Reading →
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