(Spoiler Alert: Ice.) Over 3,000+ blog views and a little something I just found...

    Okay, so I'm getting back into my online writing courses after being horribly disorganised and constantly finding things to procrastinate. But no more! As I was recounting through my different assignments I found a small, third-person short-short story that I wrote about the Glass Girls from the Poseidon's Girls trilogy. Now, it felt rather weird. Maybe because I am now writing in first person. Maybe because it has something to do with what happens later in the book. Maybe even if it's because I wrote it long before Ice came to fruition! There may be some inaccuracies due to the roughness of this short-short story (I haven't read it again just yet. Just found it thought, 'Something to share!' and putting it straight up) and received the following comment from my teacher, 'Great start. Intriguing characters create mystery and hook the reader in.'
So as a celebration to the fact I have now received over 3,000+ blog views and over 4,000+ downloads of Ice since May, I would like to reveal this unedited, pre-Ice age (haha! Get it?) short-short story that I wrote to my teacher for my romance writing course, June Colbert in February, 2014.

Please note: The short story I have included in this post is especially a piece that readers who love the intrigue of Iris x Xanthias will love to bits! Lots of intrigue. Some kissing. Lots of toned muscle!

The following is taken from June Colbert's Amazon page:

I am a former teacher and published author of four previous young adult novels (through Hachette Livre/Lothian.) I was born in the North of England but moved with my family to Australia, where I studied at Sydney University before becoming a high school teacher. I've also had acting experience and for many years wrote engineering contracts and tenders.Being an odd, strange and quite peculiar person, with a taste for the steampunk and the gothic, I began writing novels and short stories instead of contracts and tenders.Watching young people gazing silently at their phones, ignoring everything and everyone around them but that tiny mesmerizing screen, gave me the idea for 'The Silencing - Text Me', my fifth novel.My sixth book for young people, out now on Amazon Kindle, is a mega-easy to read diary style novel called 'Trout Pouts and Fake Bakes.' It's teen angst with added Botox.'Vampyre Idol' is American idol with added fangs. The X Factor for the Undead.'Drowning World' is climate change with added water, and nasty things in that water.For younger readers, 'Fangface: The Wheelchair Werewolf'
and 'Nerd Boy and the Zombie Toe of Terror' have both now gone live on Amazon Kindle.

Without further ado, I present...Tides of LoveA Poseidon's Girls Short-Short Storyby M.S. Watson© 2014 Iris couldn't really determine who she was.Her family weren't all they were cracked out to be – literally, they weren't even of blood relation. She and her sister, Lainie, grew up knowing hardly anything was amiss. Now, everything changed.Did you love this story?Would you like to hear more?Head to Smashwords to download Ice for free. Glass Bones is currently a paperback giveaway for AU residents only (due to astronomical postage costs). Frost is set for release on the 1st of September. Tempest will be released in 2014, too.Forward this to your friends and family, spread the love around. Comment on what you'd like to see more of in the future books and short stories. I have some plans for Starden. That's all I can reveal right now. In the meantime, any smaller updates will be accessible at www.facebook.com/officialmswatson and @MissaBooks on Twitter.