Minor Characters (and their life stories)

When you introduce a minor character into any kind of story, be it a short one or a novel length one, there are a myriad of reasons why they were needed. A different voice to offer a different opinion. Someone to challenge your main character's world view. An enigmatic wise-man who offers riddles in place of easy-to-follow advice.

All characters have pasts that brought them to where you meet them in the story, experiences that shaped how they view the world and are the reasons why they are serving the purpose they do in your tale. But when it comes to the larger story, we, as writers, don't often get the chance to properly flesh out the minor characters when they make their debuts. For the most part, they seem happy enough with their fifteen minutes of fame and leave you be to continue the story.

Sometimes, though, they have something more to say.

Allen Hughes is a character introduced in Eyes of the Seer. You might not even notice him, considering he has next-to-no page time. His maker, Matthew Pritchard, is the man of note in Peter and Flynn's economy. But it was Allen, Matthew's child, who spoke up as we moved on to plotting future novels. And he had quite a lot to say.

"A Maker and His Child" is a [currently] three-part short story that leaves off at a point Eyes of the Seer readers should recognize. The beginning paragraphs may have a few riddles in them, but you'll have to trust us that they will be answered in time.

A Maker and His Child

Part One

Part Two

Part Three