Dark and Stormy Knight

Introduction

One day, back in June, 2013, ALF was on his favourite forum, Secular Café. He had been posting poems and other writings on the “Creative Writing” thread for over a year and enjoyed reading the work of other posters, but recently nothing interesting showed up and he was bored.

So he addressed his favourite writer on the board, Shadowfox:

ALF: A while ago, you posted a challenge ("The Last Man on Earth") that I found very enjoyable. Fox, any more of those challenges?

To which he received an immediate reply:

SF: Well, here's one to begin a tale, “He was a dark and stormy knight”. Any style, prose or poetry, any genre, each person to contribute a few lines.

Over the course of three weeks it grew into a collaborative story by four members: ALF, Shadowfox, mood2 and Peanut. It was enormous fun to write and to read, and that is where it stayed for years. Then ALF started his publishing company, Montland Books, and decided to revisit it.

The problem was style. A story told in four different voices, by people who never met, didn’t know one another and had no idea where they were going with it. Each added new twists, new characters, new directions, new settings. Though the plot lines eventually came together, there was very little detail and the story had serious flaws and even contradictions.

Vera Mont, senior editor, took on the challenge to expand and organize this patchwork tale into an integrated story. Thus it became a new novella in its own right.

I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as all of us here, at Montland Books, enjoyed working with it.

See paperback edition at:

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Stormy-Kni...

or the Kindle edition at

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