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52 Stories, 52 Weeks: May

 May the stories entertain you, I guess.  #18: “Check Point”  I won’t be here forever, but I don’t think anyone, nor anything should be. Let’s just enjoy the nice weather, talk of our lives thus far, share a little of one another and call it a day. If you’re here tomorrow then I’ll be glad. If you’re not, I’ll move onto the next thing and keep my spirits up. Then in private moments I’ll think of you and me. Fondly. It’s memories that I hold dear to me as if you were still here.  I’m a check point. I’m a security blanket when life becomes too turbulent to maintain by oneself. I seek no competition, no glory, no conquering. Just conversation and the allowance of dreams to see the real, if for only a brief moment. If it’s the best case scenario, then maybe you find new hope to make those dreams of yours come true. Now that’s something.  You have to move along now? I understand. I’m not one to keep people waiting. I will not beg, either. We both have our lives to li...

It's My Birthday... Here's a Snippet of My Novella

Hey all! Today's my 28th birthday and I'm also doing something equally as exciting. I'm gearing up to do another promotion cycle of a piece of work I'm doing. This time it's a novella (a story around 17,500 - 39,999 words)! Below and in the link is the first 5 pages of this mini book. I had hoped I'd have it finished by this time and printed and in people's hands, but oh yeah. It's better to polish something than have something out just for the sake of having it out.  So in my calculations I should have this 100% done and printed sometime in August/September. It'll also looking to go the route of Pay What You Want for the digital edition and most likely $5 - $7 for a physical copy (depending on how hefty the word count comes out to be.)  The story is called (for the time being), "The Exchange of Secrets." It's a fantasy tale in the vain of Neil Gaiman and Patrick Rothfuss. It focuses on a young boy wandering in the forest in search of s...