In Darkness

She met him at her mother’s funeral. So kind. So handsome. It was love at first sight. …but the stranger vanished before she could capture his heart (or his name). She had no choice but to go home that very night and slit her sister’s throat…. so that love could have another chance to bloom.

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I posted another piece of 55-word flash fiction over on Thisisby.us.
This one is called “Those Tiny Eyes“.
Inspired by and dedicated to some recent activity over on the Asylum Walls. Enjoy.

“A stranger came to town today.”

Journal of Emile Thare of Filmon’s Field, Watchlands - Final Entry.
Town discovered abandoned two days after this entry was made.
Homes were abandoned; The streets were filled with ash.

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This is both old and new. The original text was written several long years ago, but was lost in the Great Hard Drive Apocalypse of 2007. I recently re-wrote this intro… almost exactly as it was… because the idea kept nagging me. It has since stopped nagging, and now I’ve got the exact same story fragment that I had before, minus the notes.
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Back in 2000, Danny Wall and I wrote a novel that was, we hoped, going to be the start of a series. After much writing and re-writing and shopping around for publishers, the entire project fell by the wayside as we both moved on to other things. I’ve still got a copy of what I think is the most recent draft, and there’s been some recent interest in distributing it directly. The easiest way to do this would probably be the Paypal-and-PDF download model that I’m currently using for the bonus stories. Before I can do that, however, the novel does still need one more round of editing and tweaking. I will, however, offer the first two chapters now for you to preview. Sometime in the next few months, I’ll have the entire thing ready for those who are interested.
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