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Fiction | Getting the Hang of Thursdays
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Books About Town – Benches We’ve Seen. Travellin’ to Tallinn (7/12/13). Birthday Trip ’13 (UK & Ireland). Getting the Hang of Thursdays. Here you will find a small sampling of my published fiction work, either in downloadable PDF format or linked to a web page. If you need a PDF reader, you can find one here. Feel free to share -. 4 thoughts on “ Fiction. Pingback: David Magazine Getting the Hang of Thursdays. Pingback: When did “money” become a bad word? Getting the Hang of Thursdays. Drew Avera, Author.
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Cast the First Stone – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. Cast the First Stone. April 22, 2016. April 22, 2016. Cast The First Stone. Jungles of Fain Deroth. 200 years before the Sundering. Rul had heard all the sayings about this land. As quiet as things may get, death was always less than a heartbeat away. With a quiet motion, one of the other two turned, watching carefully. Legionaries, Rul could tell at once, stepped out from the thick foliage. You there, the first legionary said as he walked towards them....
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Serpentine, City of Orphans – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. Serpentine, City of Orphans. August 15, 2016. August 15, 2016. By Christopher Æsc Adams. James and I have been relatively quiet recently as we put the finishing touches on the very first Legacy of Ash anthology, featuring several exclusive tales by each of us. Each story will be set in and around Serpentine, City of Orphans, a sweltering port city struggling to outgrow its lawless reputation. I hope you’ll join us. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are commen...
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Review: ‘The Vagrant’ by Peter Newman – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. Review: ‘The Vagrant’ by Peter Newman. September 26, 2016. September 26, 2016. It’s been a while since I’ve read anything as original (and yet still somehow familiar) as ‘The Vagrant’ by Peter Newman. Set in a futuristic dystopia where unnatural, abstract demons prowl a broken landscape in search of…food? No, not just food…living beings to inhabit and manipulate? The seven angelic beings who are the last hope for the mortal world? Is out now, and I’m ...
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Sons of Midnight – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. An excerpt from “Sons of Midnight”, a Legacy of Ash novel-in-progress by Christopher Æsc Adams. Poor bastards, Raphe muttered. Omaré, buckling on her breastplate, just grunted in agreement. The deepest shaft had just reached the two hundred and fifty foot mark. Twenty miners had been in the depths, working the new gallery, hewing out a rich gold vein discovered in just the last few months. From the overseer’s shanty an alarm gong clanged five times. Chant r...
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The Hounds of Tyrant – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. The Hounds of Tyrant. An excerpt from “The Hounds of Tyrant”, a Legacy of Ash novel-in-progress by James Downe. The Islands of Koi Rhe Veil. The sea had all but consumed their sanity. Salt and wind had dried their skin and hair, their lips split and crusted with blood. At first none of the crew of the small craft believed what they saw, a bleak stretch of shore and sand on the horizon. They simply stared through their weathered, sun-bleached masks. Holeni s...
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Review: ‘Shadow Ops – Control Point’ by Myke Cole – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. Review: ‘Shadow Ops – Control Point’ by Myke Cole. May 16, 2016. July 24, 2016. By Christopher Æsc Adams. An adrenaline-fueled ride through a darkly-imagined present or near-future setting in which anyone can manifest proscribed magical abilities. Cole deftly balances the believable government stance against unsanctioned magic-use with the dilemma faced by those who suddenly manifest strange and potentially-lethal new abilities. Cast the First Stone. You ar...
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Editing Was Supposed to Make It Smaller – LEGACY OF ASH
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The World of Calus Rukan. The Hounds of Tyrant. Editing Was Supposed to Make It Smaller. May 27, 2016. Alright, so I’m pleased to say that I’ve recently finished another whole edit on a Legacy of Ash manuscript. It’s a full novel here, or at least that’s what I am working towards. This is also about the third or fourth solid, straight read-through edit I’ve done. So what did I do in this edit? Tyrant, City of Masks. Editing is the Long Con. Well, maybe. But life has interjected a lot during the last ...
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Sharpening My Sword – (Almost) Average
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Ramblings of the mediocre. August 5, 2015. August 3, 2015. July was a weird month for me. It started off great with the All Write Now Conference. Then it took a turn. Within a day or two of that letter, I received another rejection of a different story I’d submitted. I tried sending the story to another place and had another rejection within a few days. To be fair, the story probably needed rejection. It wasn’t ready. I’m reworking it now to make it stronger. The rejections hurt, they always do. I...
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janicecairnsblog | Writer's JournalA topnotch WordPress.com site | Page 2
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Writer's JournalA topnotch WordPress.com site. Newer posts →. An excerpt from Forgiving Nancy. November 11, 2014. To the right, high up over all the gravestones on top of the great mass of jagged rugged rock was Edinburgh Castle, as permanent a sight as anything ever could be. The castle sat with an air of majesty, like a king on his throne, the sky wrapped around like a cloak of blue silk’. A quotation from Sheryl Browne’s 5 star review of. Which can be read fully on Amazon: ‘. November 3, 2014. I remem...
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