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March 26, 2014
Chapter 16 Episode 3 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
Adewole's throat constricted. "Let me show you something first." They had circled the entire island and returned to the forest near the Ossuary. Ofira flew up to meet them, two members of the parliament of owls escorting her. Just what he'd wished for.
"Learnèd 'un, do that be the summat grand the bad 'un took from you?" said the owl.
"Ofira, my dear, this is my friend Alleine. She is the one who gave the feathered 'uns thought and speech."
Ofira and her owls flew in slow circles around the Machine God. "We are born so, no one makes us so."
March 23, 2014
Chapter 16 Episode 2 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
A second wind gained Adewole a weak but determined energy. He stumbled to his feet, but the quaking knocked him back down. "Alleine, stop," he cried, "you will bring the Ossuary down on our heads!"
"Down, down, down," she chanted, a blow punctuating each word. The stones parted; the dent became a crater; she jumped into it and hammered at its bottom. "Down!"
"Alleine, listen to me, you must stop, you will kill us," cried Adewole, but the din overwhelmed his voice. Each punch sent dust, pebbles and ever larger rocks raining from the ceiling.
March 7, 2014
Happy 6th Anniversary!!!
I think I miss this every year--MeiLinMiranda.com turned five years old on February 28th, if you can believe it. I can't! Some of you have been with me the entire time, some of you have just recently stumbled in. I love you all. 
CORRECTED: I counted wrong because reasons. We are SIX, not five!
February 22, 2014
Two it is
The response here, on FB and from the newsletter has been overwhelming. It's motivating, that's for sure! The consensus is 100% for two books.
February 20, 2014
Book three news: It may be twins!
I'm back at work on An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom after a difficult 2013. Hard at work, actually--the writing is coming much more easily, to the point that I now face something of a dilemma. I think I know what I'm going to do, but I'd like to talk with you about it.
February 19, 2014
Chapter 16 Episode 1 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
The coilgun continued its slow whine; it took forever to recharge. Hildy had said it was old. "More than your former life? What is it you want?" Adewole stalled.
Chapter 15 Episode 4 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
"Karl, you must stop this. She is a child, we do not understand what she may do," pleaded Adewole.
"So you said when I killed you," said Deviatka, "but I'm not worried what it wants to do. It will do as I say."
Adewole staggered down the stairs, coilgun trained on his former best friend. "That worries me even more. Put down the Lyre."
February 5, 2014
Chapter 15 Episode 3 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
A muffled song came from deep inside the Ossuary, the words in the dead language of Cherholtz, the voice cracked, barely in tune and artificially loud. Without doubt, it was Karl Deviatka. A twanging accompanied him, the deep notes vibrating Adewole's bones, the high ones raising goosebumps on his skin. "He has to know this is the first place I'd look--he must believe I am dead or he would not be here," Adewole said to himself. "Well, I am inside the Ossuary, so perhaps I am dead." His spirits both sank and rose; he might never leave this place. Death was a real outcome, perhaps the unavoidable one. He headed deeper into the Ossuary, alone.
January 30, 2014
Chapter 15 Episode 2 | The Machine God | The Drifting Isle Chronicles
Adewole unfolded himself from the cargo pod. He ached all over, and not just from his injuries; the ride up from Eisenstadt had been extraordinarily rough. Even through his borrowed flight coat, gloves and hat the cold ate into his flesh, leaving his teeth chattering in the chill fall night. Inside the coat, alien to him in every way, nestled an old coilgun, another gift from the insistent Miss Goldstein who wasn't even sure it worked any more, "but better some gun than no gun."
January 25, 2014
Radio Silence
I figured out recently why book three has fought me so hard, and why I've kept radio silence on some critical issues: I'm depressed, a lot more than I thought, and for some time now. If I haven't answered something you've asked me, that's why. Not an excuse but an explanation. I'm trying to clear things up and get straight.
