The Gilded Scarab Vignette One : Free to download
Free. Well, it’s very short, to be honest. A small vignette. Hence the ‘ette’ – it’s far, far too short to make a full-sized vign.
When I ditched the NaNo novel at 25k words because it wasn’t working, there are still parts of it that I liked and didn’t want to lose. I’m filleting that draft for bits to recycle into the new draft, but there are snippets here and snippets there that won’t get used in Rafe’s version. Offering those as free downloads to augment the novel appears to be the best way of making sure they don’t get entirely lost. So here’s the opening scene from the first version, in which Ned Winter discovers the joys of archeology and delights in the discovery of a stone crow.
The Vignette is available from either the Golden Scarab page or the Free Fiction page. Or, you know, from here:
Click on the link below to download the Vignette
Enjoy!
