Category: Words
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The Persistence of Lisa

The model squirmed on her damp seat; it had been six hours, and she was restless, fidgety, and now in desperate need of the loo. “Remby,” Lisa asked as the painter took a step back from his easel to admire his work, “have you much more to do… I need to powder my nose.” Rembrandt…
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Amulet Seekers

The co-ordinates are correct, somewhere over there we shall find the last relic of the bythantium era, the Amulet of Koh. Isn’t the amulet supposed to be buried beneath a desert? It was in the days this manuscript was written, in a time long ago… but times change; places change. Would they change this much…
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Not Quite There! (Out-take)

Proving that there is more to this story, and that I am still around but taking a little blogging break, this post for Six Sentence Stories is another out-take from Clark and my epic serial ‘…of Heroes and the Misunderstood.’ Denise’s prompt word this week is Move. This is set in a familiar… well, you’ll…
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Nice Moonbeam (out-take)

Recently, Clark and I completed our Six Sentence Serial, ‘Of Heroes and the Misunderstood’. During the writing of the serial, many drafts were, erm, drafted. Some published, others not. I’m now publishing these drafts as out-takes. Some of the drafts will feature characters from Clark’s universe… The helicopter made a quicker than expected flight to…
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Somewhere, Anywhere

Clark (from The Wakefield Doctrine) and I have been writing a Six Sentence Serial over the past few weeks. It continues here, and all previous parts can be found here. The SUV pulled into a side road, off the beaten track, in the middle of nowhere in the shadowed depths of a run-down area, definitely…