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Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 33

24 Dec 20211 Jan 2022
Last week I came into a more uncertain part of this story. I'm still having questions about some of the core plot points here in the middle, and I'm trying…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 25

22 Oct 202114 Dec 2021
Well, here we are at the end of the third draft. I'm anxious to wrap this iteration up and take the whole thing in from beginning to end. I do…
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Boat of Three: Part Three

6 Aug 202014 Dec 2021
And so began the long tedium. Each man took his rest, the others continued rowing during the interim, and then all progressed forward as quickly as they could. Though each…
Short Stories

Raise the Black Sun: Part Four

28 May 202014 Dec 2021
I do not know why I did not abandon my post then. I cannot say that I held some glimmer of hope that was absent in the others. I suppose…
Short Stories

Raise the Black Sun: Part Three

21 May 202014 Dec 2021
It occurred on a day when I was deep in thought about those three Treksmen who had been in line behind Yanni. Bil-Lyew, Zafrast, and Obasi. Why had they had…
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Shade: Part Three

17 Oct 201920 Nov 2021
An hour later, down in the nearby valley, Reish stood immobile in the middle of his barracks. An hour ago he had felt the tremor, a signal born down to…
Short Stories

The Sweet Bay Tree

28 Mar 201916 Nov 2021
It was a bright Spring morning the day they brought the Sweet Bay tree into the open study area. It was a massive room, featuring thousands of square feet in…

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