Free Fiction! (in)substantial shadows
Free Fiction! A new story, never before published! (in)substantial shadows
I am a shadow, living in the shadows, always among you, always watching.
Come hear how those of you living in the world, you brights, seduced the best of us to cross the barrier and try to live beside you.
We’re a people trained to observe, not act. Yet that sweetness of doing became our undoing.
I am a shadow. This is my story.
This story is available for free on my web site for at least a week. (I might end up leaving this one up for two weeks, depending on how the writing goes this week.)
It will also be available in the usual sources.
Like “The Secrets of 9s” which I wrote last year, I think this can best be classified as literary, with a side of fantasy thrown in. I sent it to a couple of places that buy that sort of thing, but no one took it. This is the first short story I wrote as part of the 2012 short story challenge. I’m pubbing it with “The Secrets of 9s” as a bonus story.
In other news, I finished typing up “The Tiger’s Shadow” today. It’s about 6200 words, and I’m still wondering if I need to make it a little longer, add one more scene. It felt good to write something to length. I haven’t started the new story yet, but I’m on vacation, so I have more time than usual as well.
I really like this story. I have no idea if anyone else will or not. It’s not an easy story. There are two other stories I need to write along this theme: one set in Brazil around this same time (1946) as well as a second set in Germany, around 1900. I am SO HAPPY that I’ve found a way to combine the historic fantasy I love with this modern day story, how they’ll all tie in together. I still don’t know if the short stories will become the first part of the novel or if they’ll stand alone. I’ll figure that out once I start the novel.
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