Glass Eye – Scene 2(c)

This is the final post for the year - off to do things with peeps -- yeeps! So I leave you with the final part of Scene 2 of the Glass Eye story: Scene 1 here, Scene 2(a) here, Scene 2(b) here. “You yellin’ at me,” Eddie’s voice was sunshine and thunder. No lightning.“I have …

Glass Eye – Scene 2(b)

Approx 900 words. Scene 1 here, Scene 2(a) here ... What excuse to get out of town for a day or so? Wrong order. Plan like a mission. Get to Eddie and do a double switch-out of the eye and tech. And the glasses. It didn’t work without the glasses. And a battery. She’d need …

Glass Eye – Scene 2(a)

Scene 1 here. “Let me be clear on this, Ms Lomas,” Base One’s voice deepened to a barely audible bass on her name, “you wish to dispute the assessment?” His fingers squeezed the armrest until the leather squealed. He sounded like a wounded lion. Safi leaned back, crossed her hands over her lap. The cane …

Glass Eye – Scene 1

approx 1800 words, the first scene of a suspenseful thriller about a field agent blinded on her first mission, and her journey toward avenging the death of her training partner in the same event. -- This example may not be exactly the same as the final version (or the first version; amended 26Nov2019), so if …

The New Story

It is a follow on to this story ( mybook.to/The_Mad_Horse ): https://read.amazon.com.au/kp/embed?asin=B07KYY9XSN&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_n7GVDb3RQQH4N Or if you don't use Amazon: https://books2read.com/The-Big-Three What is the new story about? A young espionage agent is blinded in a bomb attack, and her memories of the event are dismissed as induced by the trauma. How could anyone believe that the best …

It’s November, NaNo awaits …

So you may not see much of me here unless I get ahead of the game. The above is a poster available from NaNo. It's a beauty, isn't it? What will I be doing now that it's November and I've stuck the nose into the NaNo world? Rewriting, for the third time, the second spy/espionage …

Who Reads Poetry?

The question is part of a Newsletter sent out by a poet whose words I read regularly. Who reads poetry? Why? How do they find it? What is it about the poetry that appeals? Poetry is a field of words I don't work in much. I read it. Some of it is inspired. I like …

A Stunning Feat

Herja, Devastation came onto the scene last week, made her debut. This week, she's sitting pretty. #1 New Release in its main category on Amazon. Three other categories show her in the top 100. She's spectacular, stunning, a bright, shiny light, new and different. Nouveau Noir in poetry and prose. Have you seen her yet? …

Spring Equinox

It is down here. Australia. Spring Equinox. When the days are equal in length to the nights, when summer is just around the corner ... Which, all in all, means I can get more writing done without turning on the lights ... Oh, yes, Herja, Devastation is still #1 on New Releases in its category. …

Birds & Weeds

Spring in Adelaide. Birds make war over territory and trees. Fruit trees flower as if there's no season beyond now.Weeds grow too fast for the eye to see. And it would be good. I love Spring.The flowers on the trees means fruit later.Or it should. Last year, most of the fruit trees died.This year, the …