Chapter 1- Just Another Day at Work The LED headlamp strapped to my forehead illuminated my pistol and several feet of the tunnel ahead. I hadn’t planned to be crawling down a tunnel, only slightly larger than I am, beneath the city of Arkham, Massachusetts, at half-past midnight, but such is the life of a … Hmm, as I thought… (more…)
Leaders lead, cooks cook, writers write. If you are a writer, you write. That you write well, that you write many words, that you write in a particular genre, or get paid is all description, detail after the fact. A writer writes, so to be a writer, you must write. The intent of the statement is not to ensure you… (more…)
Chapter 1 – I’m Late and Overhear Stuff I was fifteen minutes late to the funeral, pulling into the funeral home parking lot just as the police directed the last few cars onto the road heading to the gravesite. As the ward of Lady Elizabeth Southwell, I had been trained to be on time, and in truth, she would be… (more…)
Chapter 1 – Deadwood Agent Elizabeth Persimmon Shuttleworth, kicked at a small pile of charcoal, the gray ash puffed into the air for a second before settling on the pointed toe of her well-polished black cowboy boot. She reached down and pulled a small doll head from the charred wooden remains of someone’s home, probably the bedroom of a little… (more…)
Sarah Anne Wisemueller sat on the back steps of Sisters of the Secret Mystery, the orphanage her Uncle Thomas had dropped her off ten years ago. She looked across the dark paved playground, remembering. Back then, at seven, she was one of the children hanging from the monkey bars, but now at seventeen, she had different feelings as she watched… (more…)
Everything was fine as they began their first night in the mountains. The whole convoy was in high spirits as they left the comfortable homesteads of their people which surrounded the central settlement. Ten years had passed since their crash landing on Darkworld, as some had begun to call it, and in that time the settlers, now known as “pilgrims,”… (more…)