This is the first of my weekly free fiction series. Sometimes it will be a short story and sometimes it'll be an excerpt. This weeks offering is an excerpt from Prunella Smith:Worlds Within Worlds, but like quite a few of the scenes in that book, it's also a short story. Normally, the Friday Fiction will be available for one week only, but I'm going on holiday next week for a couple of weeks, so you'll have longer to read it before I delete it and replace it with something else. My feet pounded the hard earth, jarring my bones, but I couldn’t stop. The monster closed in behind me, his breath coming in hard, loud pants. I tripped and stumbled over a fallen branch, only just saving myself from a fall. An evil chuckle reverberated through the darkening forest. ‘I’m going to get you, bitch.’ The chill in the beast’s voice sent shivers down my spine. I ran faster, my legs burning with the effort, and looked desperately for somewhere to hide, somewhere to escape this monster set on … [Read more...]
Single short stories now available in all ebook formats
Reader's favourites from my short story collection, 'A Matter of Perception' are now available as individual books on all ebook formats. The heartwarming magical realism tale of Norris and his Goddess, 'A Hole in the Pavement' is 99c, available here, and the poignant story of two women facing death in vastly different cultures and times yet linked via their dreams, 'Not Me, It Can't Be,' is FREE and available here. … [Read more...]
Review: The Night Shifters by Emily Devenport
Title: THE NIGHT SHIFTERS Author: Emily Devenport Publisher: Emily Devenport Release date : November 2010 Category: Urban Fantasy The Night Shifters is a highly imaginative novel and very different to the usual fantasy offerings. If you like dreams and the loose kind of associations that drive them, you may love this book. Hazel is a Grand Champion Dreamer but one day when the alarm goes off, she opens her eyes to find that despite what her clock says, it’s still dark. The sun hasn't come up, the world outside has become a City of Night, and the dwellers there are Night Shifters. All of them have their own agendas and all of them are chasing Hazel. Devenport creates an eerie and evocative dreamscape for her characters and much of the action is reminiscent of that common in dreams eg flying, falling, running and getting no where etc. Fitting in with the dream theme, the characters operated from mysterious and sometimes incomprehensible motivations, and Hazel literally fell from … [Read more...]
