(Way back in 2011 I took part in the 3 Day Novel competition, and won… well, nothing, but it was a great experience anyway. Just for the hell of it, I decided I should post it here, chapter by chapter. I’m going through it to clean it up a bit, but it’s otherwise as written […]
Within a Name – Chapter 2
CHis pounding head woke him. He tried to open his eyes, found them too crusted with sleep, rubbed them, and tried again. They peeled back to reveal cracked, screaming light bleeding in from around the camel hair curtains. Even in the twilight of the basement, fire burned through his eyes to the back of his […]
Within a Name – Chapter 3
A week later and Ranat’s tin was nearly spent. He’d given Gessa twenty Three-Sides—a lot more than he owed her, but he’d felt some undefinable, probably misplaced guilt, and giving her less hadn’t seemed right. He’d more or less moved into the nameless bar where he’d met Gessa. What had followed was a blur […]
Wait! I was reading that!
There is a possibility someone was reading the chapters of Within a Name I had been posting here on a semi-regular basis, only to check in a few weeks ago to see that not only was there no new chapters up, but 4-6 were now missing entirely. Well, there is a reason for that, and […]