Kira Chapter 1

I just added the first chapter of a short story I have been working on. If you get a chance to read through it feel free to leave me a comment on what you think. Keep in mind that this is just a first draft, so there are still quite a bit of changes to be made. Perhaps its bad form for an author to put up work before it's fully polished, but screw it. I'm uncouth.

Its in the Sample Chapter section.

The story is my attempt to write a typical fairy tale but with a little different spin to it. It is set in our world of Kaelist.

-Brendan O'Connor

New story...

I have written about 6k words today of a new story. Its outlined and I had hoped to keep it under 10k words if possible. I fear I am falling under the Robert Jordan curse of writing, in that everything I write comes out far longer than I had planned. We will see if I can cut it down during the editing process.

The story itself is about an elite soldier who deserts after a horrible battle that wiped most if not all of his unit out. He wanders across a desert, chased by one of the horrors that killed all his friends and brothers. His psyche shatters as he fades in and out of coherent thought. Always marching forward. When he fades out his mind travels back and he relives his life, leading up finally to the battle that broke him and his unit.

Each of time he fades out we get a new short story from his past. I am working on the first, how Brast left home with other boys from the villages of their homeland and traveled through the mountains to their training grounds and the trial that awaits them there. 

Can't wait to get feedback from Cordell when I get it done.

Ok back to the grind stone and my bruised fingertips. Ha!