This is a short story I wrote after being given a challenge by Breifne Earley on the Leitrim Daily Podcast. Check out more about that on my post here, or listen to episode 76 of the Leitrim Daily podcast over at www.leitrimdaily.com! On with the tale! Sarah ran up Main Street, weaving and bobbing between […]
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The Terminator: Come with me if you want character development.
Ba da daaaaah…. da daaa daaaaaaah….. ba da daaaaaah….. da daa DAAAAAAA daaaaaaaa….. Can’t you tell that’s The Terminator’s theme song? No? I really tried. Out of the many things I try and do for this site, I particularly enjoy my 100 greatest films series. It’s fun to watch, or in most cases, REwatch some […]
Chapter 5: The Search for Answers
Be sure to read Chapters One, Two, Three and Four first! If after this you can’t wait for more, get the whole book here! ******** “Delia, that’s a huge… I mean… That’s a big thing to say.” He stood for a second, his hand over his mouth, and then moved across the room and cupped […]
Writing a Novel: 5 Lessons learned.
So I wrote a book… Well, I guess I should say that I finally finished a book. The Longest Night was my third effort at writing a novel. The first attempt when I was sixteen, the second came at twenty-four, and I wrote the first ideas for The Longest Night at twenty-eight. Looking back over […]
The Bitten Apple
The prompt for this story was Genre: Action/Adventure, Location: A ravine, and Object: A bag of money. Hope you enjoy! I heard the soft click of a weapon behind me. “Well done kids. Daddy would be proud.” My hands shot up. “Don’t shoot! P-please don’t shoot!” Carefully, I turned around and faced Rafe. His slicked-back […]
Chapter 4: His Boring Job
Keith Akintola was surrounded by high grey walls, making him feel like he was at the bottom of a deep ravine somewhere in the Himalayas or the Rockies.