Before the infamous black door, where she had stood only once before, fresh tears streamed down her face. The façade of dereliction and neglect belittled the magnificence of what lay within, No. 1 Tyranny Square, which to Jackson was simply the greatest place in the eternity of creation. Staring up into pregnant morning skies, cloaked…
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THE WOODEN HEADS – KINDLE PROMO POSTER & EXCERPT
They got a hospital bed put up in the front room, so Grandad didn’t have to go into a home. Palliative Care it was called. End of life kindness. One day, a dark and sad day, a final day…Grandad smiled weakly from that bed and motioned to Mum with a frail wink and a wave….
MY BROTHER’S EYE – KINDLE PROMO POSTER & EXCERPT
Again, there was no reply, just an eerie silence, as he pulled at the flap out of stubborn curiosity, which eventually folded open, just as an envelope would. Firash wrinkled his face in disgust as he pushed his fingers in through the sap-laden pouch made of bark. The familiar flash of the electric blue shell…
THE CROW STONES: COMING SOON
I press on, in the darkness, throwing out my hands to navigate via the walls, stepping carefully as I track the contours. I reach a more traditional doorway and find a knob. I turn it, gently. It opens. There is light behind this door. I peer through the jamb. A hidden room of grey slate….
THE CROW STONES: LOCATIONS – THE RIVER HINGE
As he carries on with these lies, designed to humanise himself before me, I remain abstract, detached from his plans, and I say what needs to be said. ‘The Swimming of Witches was probably the most famous of all the trials carried out by your brethren. Innocent girls and women, dubbed witches, because they were…
THE CROW STONES: LOCATIONS – BLACK LARCH WOOD
This is sheer, abject terror. The worst kind of fear. The unknown. It is when we are at our most vulnerable… I recognise fear and my amygdala is activated. It has alerted my nervous system, which has set my body’s fear response into motion. Cortisol and adrenaline are released. Blood pressure and heart rate increase….
THE CROW STONES: LOCATIONS – JACKDAW HILL
Mr. Olyphant has lived all his life in relative isolation, in his ancestral home atop Jackdaw Hill. Like a king atop his throne, he lords over us, from this quaint cottage-castle in the sky on the outskirts of the village. I’ve always thought of him as more of a handsome black bear, than beast, but…
THE CROW STONES: COMING SOON
As the image sharpens, it develops the detail of a figure stood at the rock of obsidian, swamped in a purple robe and hood. The stranger’s identity is obscured to me, but from this new angle, I notice that Callie’s knife is dripping…not crimson with blood, but a grey slurry, reminiscent of a grotesque gruel,…
THE AMBER MOON PART TWO: OF MOSAICS & MONSTERS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Dr. Tan glanced back and smiled before he strode forward and held both swords in the firewall on board the fire chariot. He whistled as if waiting for an egg to boil, and then withdrew the molten hot blades and rushed forward. Tan swung the swords so hard that when the blades met, they took…
THE AMBER MOON PART ONE: OF SHADOWS & DRAGONS KINDLE EXCERPT & PROMO POSTER
Fairy Eight moved across the stage to where a Thief Trials volunteer with Memorabilia etched across his uniform was nervously clutching a large, grey sack. Fairy Eight snatched it from him and the volunteer ran off screaming. She grinned as she dumped the sack at North’s feet. “Tell Seven, that’s from me.” She leaned in…
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