I've had this blog for a while, but I've never really utilized it. So for my first post, I'll do a traditional plug of my new (although not really so new) and available novel, Oblivion! You can find it here! This is a new, re-formatted, re-edited version of the original. Check it out!
This is also a good time to mention that I have a second novel in the process of becoming published. Below is an excerpt from my next novel, "Sunkissed: A Zombie Novel." Read on!
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The
man’s body looked as though he had pulled himself out of a grave and come back
from the dead. For being a video that was only 400 by 300 pixels, the detail was
painstakingly sharp. The shallow breaths of whoever held the video camera fill
my ears as I remember, and I lean against the doorframe, squeezing my eyes
shut. I saw that man; dead or alive, it was impossible to tell, dragging one
foot behind him as though it were too heavy, as though his ankle were broken.
Despite his injured leg, he was still shockingly fast. He sprinted across the
street, jumped on a middle-aged woman, and with no hesitation at all, buried
his teeth into her neck and ripped the muscle out of her throat. Blood poured
everywhere; the woman’s screaming came out jagged and disconnected. She
collapsed, and several more like the man – pale and grotesque-looking, with
wounds and torn clothes, their arms hanging limply as though they had forgotten
how to use them – leapt onto her. Her blood-curdling screams paused only
between fits of bloody gurgling. The monsters ripped her to shreds, greedily
scooping her insides into their mouths. The cameraman’s hand shook hard, the
picture trembling as though he was fighting to stay standing in an earthquake.
The
video ended when the cameraman turned hard to the left, and one of the
cannibals’ faces filled the frame and froze.
That
face…I’ll never forget it. If he looked healthy, he’d be in his mid-twenties.
His hair was ragged and greased with blood – his own or maybe another’s. His
eyes were sunk deep in his sockets and his cheeks sagged. His jaw was broken so
that his mouth was fixed in a never-ending scream of agony, and his eyes…
His
eyes were dead.
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Hope you enjoyed the excerpt! I'll be around with more updates eventually. Thanks for reading!
Hope you enjoyed the excerpt! I'll be around with more updates eventually. Thanks for reading!
