Wayward Writer
Beta Shred - "Circling True North" Hello Friends, I haven't posted anything from my current work in progress for a couple of months. So, that is the context of my blog post today - a little beta shred from Circling True North (a Sci-Fi novel). If you have read the seven episodes currently available on... Continue Reading →
Circling True North - A Dystopian Serial Novel As I near the central desk, glowing faces of two staff members come into view. Slouched in their chairs, heads appear disembodied, hovering like fluorescent blue balloons just above the counter, emphasized by the dark backdrop of the unlit nurse’s station behind them. Eyes fixed to the... Continue Reading →
(Beta Shred #2 from Episode 1) (Beta Shred #2) A brazen boot swings off the curbing past the wall where I lean. Before he has time to adjust his eyes to the shadows, I spring, forgetting the gunshot wound – driven by pure instinct and adrenaline. Fingers of my left hand clamp down on his... Continue Reading →
Dystopian Serial Novel (Beta Shred #1) The whippoorwill’s song is relentless, unseen from his perch on a dying tree branch, rusted light pole, or edge of peeling roof – trills like barbed wire scraping against my raw nerves. An omen. Good or bad, I do not know. The repetitive song a prediction of looming death,... Continue Reading →
