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I am currently working on a dark fantasy novel, titled "The Snake Heart". It will be approiately 504pgs long and containing 40 chapters (not including the prologue and epilogue). I plan on finishing my novel by fall of 2010.

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Only memories: 1 of 27
Whispers Unfurl In the room of haunting memories, don't look behind the curtains!, there stands a girl, dressed in ivory. She'll point to the elms below and say "there lies the untold". Her eyes are rung about in gray, she carries with her a book marked "truth", her body's worn by all the war's the world's been through. Flic... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Dreams: 1 of 22
Excerpts From: "The Snake Heart" Dragonflies swarmed around the eerie flames, their iridescent wings catching the light and shimmering like many fluttering stars. They seemed unaffected by the mystic fire, for they neither died nor wavered away from the dazzling heat it emitted. A man stood watching the blaze, he had tak... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Wizards & witches: 1 of 22
Excerpt From: "The Snake Heart" Two shadows drifted across the compact earth, like tigers stalking their prey they made no noise. A whisper of wind flew through hair and tunics, kissing sun bronzed skin and cooling flame bent iron. The Masterdragon had removed his baldric and sheath back at camp; now he wondered whether... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Magical fantasy: 6 of 116
Tyrien led his horse silently to the edge of the field; staring at the ground as it passed beneath his feet, emotions churning in his stomach as he stepped wearily through blood and upturned soil. All of his men had survived the battle; albeit wounded, albeit bruised and ready for the comforts of a warm bed. The worst inj... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short Stories: Car accidents: 2 of 27
Red Asphalt XLIX (Year 2108) The canopy of leaf laden branches whipped overhead, streaking my view from the sunroof with muddy browns and golden greens. I felt the car swerve erratically toward the dense wall of trees and subtle glint of the guard-rail. I jerked my attention back to the road, yanking the steer... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Trees: 20 of 249
The Tree of Human Fate And the tree was white as snow and bone, for its gnarled flesh had been rent of its wooden body. But for one patch where the golden bolt of light and flame had struck its solid form, it was black as any night in this year or the next. And it was weak and dead and dying. And this tree was called the... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Fairy tales: 10 of 121
Enchanted Night 'Their emerald moors sang myths to me, A stranger in these haunted isles. They sung of dances 'round the Rowan tree. And while wondering o'er the misty land, A quiet place of dreams and peace, Some ghostly touch caressed my hand. A whisper brushed against my skin, And somewhere music rode th... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: One man's journey: 3 of 32
Excerpt From: "The Snake Heart" The water billowed softly under the wind's touch, as though it were liquid silk. Words trickled over stones and cut a channel through the valley, a gleaming jagged channel that shone brighter than quicksilver in the moon light or molten copper in the early morning sun. Occasiona... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Who am I?: 5 of 37
A Velvet Dawn A train's mournful cries chant through the trees; disturbing the stillness of the dark as it heaves electric sighs. The haunting quiet of a velvet dawn is heard by the ancient elms, the creeping solar glow ever watched by crystalline eyes. Yet still, an ebony shroud drifts across the silvered clover and m... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Dark fantasy: 21 of 149
Excerpt From: "The Snake Heart" "Many of these people have not yet seen the kind of bloodshed as they will see today. Must they discover the thirst for blood which runs in the veins of our enemies? Were these my people, they would not wear the armor of warriors nor feel the weight of the blades steel by their si... More..