Ned Hayes's Blog, page 143
October 31, 2013
"Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for...
"Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past."
— from the novel Sinful Folk
Happy Halloween… here’s a quote appropriate for the...
Happy Halloween… here’s a quote appropriate for the day…
"I lift my eyes to the distant moon that shines over our earthly sphere. I stare around at the field in front of me, the seven-branched candlelabraum etched over the archway, the dark gray stones ranked together in rows, the brambles that have overgrown this secret shadowed place.
This is the closest I will ever come to finding my people.
It is the last graveyard of my people in London.”
— from the novel Sinful Folk
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“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait...
“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there.
The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past.”
— from the novel Sinful Folk
"The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only...
"The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. It is warm in one corner here, from the flue that runs under the calefactory. I curl up against the grated opening where the heat eddies. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past."
— from the novel Sinful Folk
October 30, 2013
"Death to Dinner" - Author Interview at On Fiction Writing
" It would be interesting to have the following characters to dinner… Chava the Golem from Helene Wecker’s wonderful new novel The Golem & the Jinni, along with Sirius Black, from the Harry Potter books — my favorite Rowling character — along with Neil Gaiman’s young female “Death” from the Sandman graphic novels (the sister of “Dream,” who shepherds us all out of this life), and finally I’m cheating a little bit by inviting Jane Austen herself… but she is a character in various contemporary stories (like Becoming Jane) as well as a writer herself. (With this assortment of characters, I’m not sure that any of us would survive the evening though!) “
Ned Hayes is the author of the forthcoming SINFUL FOLK, a novel set in the 14th century. He is also the author of Coeur d’Alene Waters, a historical mystery novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is now at work on two more historical novels, Garden of Earthly Delight, also set in the Middle Ages, and A Mercy Upon Us.
"As the great stone gate of my cell slams shut again, there are...
"As the great stone gate of my cell slams shut again, there are the skittering sounds of insects and mice, the distant shrieks of prisoners in pain in other cells, but I do not fear the vermin or my guards. I fear the dark. I can see nothing now but those faint fairie lights that drift in utter darkness against my eyes."
— from the novel Sinful Folk
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