Teaser Time

An extract from the Prologue:

Branches tear at my face and limbs, trying to hold me back, trying to make me embrace the death that is hunting me down with a relentless, unflagging sense of inevitability. The blood-chilling howls echo all around, coming from everywhere, sending needles of fear lancing through my skin, wave upon wave of panic filling my frazzled mind with only one hardened truth: I'm going to die. I have my rifle, but it is no longer any use. It's all too big, far too big; bigger than me; bigger than my rifle. It's something evil, terribly evil, and it wants me. It wants to hook its claws deep into me and tear me apart, laughing while it does it. It wants to crush me with all the brutality it can muster; it wants to raise my hopes and dash them, and then do it all again until I'm nothing but a running, weeping, panic-filled wreck that was once human. And it's achieved it all, and kept me alive. Too much, it's too much...is it so hard to just die? I sob: can't I just die?! Oh God, I want to die, please please please...

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The Moment has Arrived...

Well, it's been a while since the last post, a result of both laziness and busyness, if that is possible. But, I'm posting, so it's all good. I've had some breakthroughs in the novels, thickening plot, solidifying things, although I need to work some more on the geography, but all in good time.

Alright, here we go, an excerpt from my novel. Tell me what you think.

Growls. Glowing red. Teeth ripping...tearing. Blood everywhere. Splashing...suffocating...water flooding my lungs, choking me to death. Thick blanketing darkness. Crushing dread. Nothing.

Light, slowly pulsating ghostly light swims around me and hope sparks in my shattered, exhausted mind as I frantically claw for the surface. The smooth circle of glowing liquid breaks and waves splash gently onto the rune-etched edge. I grope my way out of the pool, retching the water from my lungs and gasping for breath. Waves of dizziness and nausea sweep through my skull and my blood streaked face slowly falls to the glowing runes, my consciousness fading rapidly. But none of this matters. I'm alive, oh God, I'm alive.