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Child of The Creed
“Are you coming out?” I asked, keeping one hand on the ritual knife I kept in my pocket. “No!” “Why not?” “He said I was ugly.” The glare I threw at Nathan would have destroyed him if I’d www.onedoor.ccput any magic behind it. “He’s an idiot. Don’t worry about him.” The hag turned to look at me. There was a smile on her lips. She was so young. I sometimes forgot they had to grow up. I felt bad coming here, knowing that she was bound by The Creed to take something in exchange for the information I wanted and that every taking would put a weight on her soul that would eventually corrupt her. I tried to justif...
City of Culture
Olive was not content with her life. It was not her choice to live in a tropical prison with one other human. It was not her choice to abandon the society in which others lived in but she'd never seen. Nothing was her choice till the day came. At the age of 18, she was an adult and thus ousted from her government placement on Island K. A rectangular building colored to blend in with the surrounding forest.Living her whole life away from humans was the reason she was there. A Lonely Lord of the Flies if you will. She'd been taught by her caretaker for as long as she could remember about everyt...
A view You'll never Forget
The ocean breeze whips my unmanageable hair in various directions, blocking my view of the light blue sky in the horizon. Where we're going, will my hair suddenly be tame? Will I die of such changes? Running barefoot on my island and growing with the grass, the trees, the meadow, it's been my whole life. Why must I leave it? Marriage, honor, tradition, it is the way of our people. These are words my father has repeated thousands of times, yet I cannot bear to hear them once more. For I fear that if I do, I will run into the embrace of the sea and let it overcome me, for then I will be truly at...
Opening Pandora's Box
This is an excerpt from my new novel that will be coming out soon The Long Walk Home: EMPI lit my solar lamp and was just about to check the stove.“What the hell is that?” Jeb said, pointing at the lamp.“It’s a solar lamp.”“Why is it working?”“Because it’s solar?” I said.“But the EMP fried all that stuff. Why does yours work?”“I don’t know. I didn’t even think about that before. I checked it when I took it out of my trunk at work that day and it was working.”“So being in your trunk must have protected it in some way. Then maybe some of the stuff sitting out there in the trucks might still wor...