Recent Stuff

It's the off week here at Saturday Story-Time, and it's been a while since I posted to the original blog. There was never a consistent posting schedule for this, but I figured I would write about a few things.

First off: Saturday Story-Time is on its sixth story with another one growing. Since I last spoke, three stories have arrived. First there was The Hungry River, a fantasy story about a Palace Guard subjected to torture that he does not deserve. Second, there was the bit-sized Find the Exit, a story that starts strange and gets stranger, and last week was the debut of A Carnival to Remember, a . . . thriller? Horror? Let's go with horror.

Also starting last week was a current-story link on the right side of the screen, with a picture appropriate to the story's subject matter. The current picture is from the talented Eric Freitas, who makes interesting clock structures and other dabblings in 3D art.

It was difficult to decide which story to write for next Saturday. I started one idea, a fantasy story begun by a poem (which I must admit I feel pride for), but realized it was very similar to a world I had already created. So, I switched and started to write a short story set in that world. I noticed, though, that there wasn't enough backstory to the world.

I wrote a novel, you see, about a group of people called the Guards of the Earth (also the title of the book). These people are picked from birth, and their magical potential culled, eventually taking a familiar and choosing to protect the earth from magic and those that would abuse it, set in present day and our familiar Earth.

So that short story idea was put aside, perhaps to return to in the future, and I started on an idea I got a few days before, of a woman who gets visions of the future, but only those of a specific nature. What normally happens did, and a few days ago the story became clear. I expect it to be 10k words at the most, and will appear on June 29th, bringing to a close the first 3-story month for Saturday Story-Time.

Edit: And you are able to subscribe to Saturday Story-Time via email, which hovers under the current picture on the right, waiting for your gentle click.

Story Numbered Third

Once again, a bit of short fiction is appearing on my other blog, Saturday Story-Time. This one has no dieing! No foolin'! It's called "An Adventure," and I think it's strange. Have at it! It goes up at noon on May the fourth, but there are two other stories to read while you wait!

Story Number Two!

Hello! I am again shilling for my other blog, saturdaystory-time.blogspot.com, where a new original short story is available for your pleasure! The story is called "The Flight, the Hunt," and is great. I had a lot of fun writing it, and I hope you have fun reading it!

Exciting!

Friends! Countrymen! Enemies...

Starting tomorrow at noon (assuming that blogger isn't broken and manages to post things when I tell it to) there's going to be original short stories up on an entirely different blog. The name of the blog is Saturday Story-Time, and new stories will appear there every two weeks! As if by magic. Here's a link, but there won't be anything there until at least Saturday the sixth of April, noon. Saturday Story-Time.

The first story is an idea I've had for a while. It is titled Strange Heaven.

Please, enjoy! And if you do, tell your friends! And be sure to come back periodically!