Writing a Novel – Personal Narrative
This is a different kind of Writing Guide article. To understand how it affects your writing, you need to first know how it influences you on a personal level. So […]
Bad Blood – Chapter XII – Super Friends
Doesn’t take a genius to see the ritual’s draining the life force from these upstanding super-scientists. But where is it going? Margot thought to herself as she carefully approached the […]
Bad Blood – Chapter XI – The Man with the Golden Eyes
Margot tensed at the sound of Roberto’s voice and the double-barreled shotgun cocking. She felt it on the back of her head, but felt no bloodlust coming from the hunter. […]
Bad Blood – Chapter X – The Bad Blood
Margot sat in the back of another Leftover jeep, leaning on the door, her eyes closed but still alert. Just resting my eyes…head hurts still. What was that in my […]
Bad Blood – Chapter IX – Old Friends, New Enemies
“Let me in…” a man’s voice drifted in from outside the Leftover tent. Margot woke up to familiar surroundings, covered in the skins of animals with names she couldn’t even […]
Bad Blood – Chapter VIII – Six Feet Down the Rabbit Hole
“Wake up.” A familiar voice said. Margot opened her eyes, expecting them to hurt along with the rest of her body, but she felt fine. No pain anywhere and her […]
Bad Blood – Chapter VII – Where the Wild Things Live
Margot drove behind the Leftover jeep, saw them look back at her, turn back and gossip. She grinded her teeth in frustration. If I didn’t need you I would’ve smacked […]
Bad Blood – Chapter VI – The Leftovers
Just as every society has its slums and its outcasts, so do all slums have its exiles, those that don’t function under the rules of their ruined civilisation. The Underworld […]
Bad Blood – Chapter V – Homecoming
Every city has slums, home to the dispossessed, the downtrodden and the derelict. Makai has several, each built on top of the other. The Underworld is the lowest, a place […]
Bad Blood – Chapter IV – Dead and Buried
The Mapmaker had a new lead, just not the one Margot expected. “How did you find this?” She asked, looking up from the crumbling parchment in her hands, meeting his […]
Bad Blood – Chapter III – Tale as old a time
If you only knew how many abominations and demons lived in Fallen Square, you wouldn’t wonder about the name. The most opulent of the districts, built right on a ley […]
Bad Blood – Chapter II – Appraise the Lord
Margot left her office and took a turn into the first alley she could find. It didn’t matter where you were in Makai, all alleys led to the Alleyweb. She […]
Bad Blood – Chapter I – His Royal Badness
It was a warm summer day, like every other in Onigashima, the island housing over seven million supernatural creatures. Everyone and their monstrous uncle lived here. Why do I bother? […]