Tim's Bits and Pieces

Letter to the Glibelian Ambassador dated 4th of Solu in the 7th year of Emperor Halak II [Approximately 2nd of December 2031 AD]

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It was two weeks after we moved into the new house that I first noticed my daughter singing the theme song of a popular cartoon series in our new backyard. "For the Fairies" she said; and I thought it was cute.

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The palace gardener walked down the central path of the west garden. He was alone among the plants, which was no longer unusual. Visitors to the west garden had become rarer in the past months then any time the gardener could remember of his forty-three years of tending these grounds.

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Matthews watched the ship's thrusters automatically activate in an attempt to slow its entry down while his lifeboat drifted away in the upper atmosphere. It was strange, last week he was struggling to keep her running, but now he found himself praying that her drives would fail because then she would smash into the planet hard enough to kill It. Maybe.

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Just a quick update on my writing since I haven't posted for a while.

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I've now published The Pyrrianaut as a freebie on Smashwords. I was going to put it on Amazon as well, but Amazon doesn't accept "Free" ebooks, so you'll just have to download it from Smashwords even if you use a Kindle. There's a short description of the short story after the break if you're interested.

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A short story about vanishing youth and fighting pseudo-dinosaurs.

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I finished up a new short story on Wednesday night, so I'm going to let it sit for a week or two and then re-edit it. In the mean-time I'll continue work on editing The Sword and The Hawk, and hopefully get started on a separate novella I'm planning.

Just a quick update on the status of my writing. The first few chapters of The Sword and The Hawk are with my mum proofreader, and I'm a fair chunk of the way through an unrelated Sci-Fi short story, which is probably going to end up being around 3,000-5,000 words. I'm hoping to pick up the pace on my writing, but still, I'm getting things done, even if more slowly than I'd like.

Well, I've missed the first week of January deadline for publishing the first chapter.

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