The Son of Man, and +717
I mentioned previously the next first draft story I'm writing, and how it makes me nervous because it's so far outside my comfort zone. But I figured out a way last night to make it fit just a little more closely with what I know I can write. And for the rest, I'm taking Neil Gaiman's advice and pretending to be someone who can write it.
I got a decent start this morning and wrote the first section, which came to 717 words. And considering how long I sat there staring at the blank page trying to find the first sentence, that's not bad.
And now onto "The Son of Man", the second chapbook in the Five Fates bundle.
This is a very old story, written back in 1993. I was outside one summer evening waiting for a pizza to show up when I looked up at the sky and saw this huge long, thin cloud, all by itself, and I thought it looked just like a spine. And then I imagined how big a creature must be to have a spine that size. And then I imagined more clouds drifting in to connect with it, clouds shaped like other bones until there was a giant skeleton in the sky.
"The Son of Man" is backed with TWO bonus stories, "Inside" and "Bob's Leg", two more of my favorite short stories. These two are VERY short ("Bob's Leg" is only 1012 words while "Inside" isn't even 900 words), but I think they both pack more punch than many of the 3000+ word stories I've written in 20 years. In all three cases, we're dealing with very surreal imagery and a world turned upside down by them.
As with "In the Veins", and the rest of the stories, you can get the print version (5X8, 30 pages) from either CreateSpace or Amazon (where you can also get the Kindle version for FREE), or the ebook version for Nook, Sony Reader or Kobo at Smashwords.com. The Print version is $4.99 and, while the ebook version is SUPPOSED to be $2.99, Amazon, for whatever reason, has been offering it free for about two months. I don't know why or for how much longer they'll be doing that, though, so get it while you can.
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I got a decent start this morning and wrote the first section, which came to 717 words. And considering how long I sat there staring at the blank page trying to find the first sentence, that's not bad.
And now onto "The Son of Man", the second chapbook in the Five Fates bundle.
This is a very old story, written back in 1993. I was outside one summer evening waiting for a pizza to show up when I looked up at the sky and saw this huge long, thin cloud, all by itself, and I thought it looked just like a spine. And then I imagined how big a creature must be to have a spine that size. And then I imagined more clouds drifting in to connect with it, clouds shaped like other bones until there was a giant skeleton in the sky.
"The Son of Man" is backed with TWO bonus stories, "Inside" and "Bob's Leg", two more of my favorite short stories. These two are VERY short ("Bob's Leg" is only 1012 words while "Inside" isn't even 900 words), but I think they both pack more punch than many of the 3000+ word stories I've written in 20 years. In all three cases, we're dealing with very surreal imagery and a world turned upside down by them.
As with "In the Veins", and the rest of the stories, you can get the print version (5X8, 30 pages) from either CreateSpace or Amazon (where you can also get the Kindle version for FREE), or the ebook version for Nook, Sony Reader or Kobo at Smashwords.com. The Print version is $4.99 and, while the ebook version is SUPPOSED to be $2.99, Amazon, for whatever reason, has been offering it free for about two months. I don't know why or for how much longer they'll be doing that, though, so get it while you can.
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