Well, I failed at my NaNoWriMo goal, but I did get a fair bit written, so here it is:
(Failed) NaNoWriMo 2006 Work-In-Progress
by
J. K. Hoffman
Chapter 1
“Wherein some brief introductions are made.”
I don’t care how worldly or experienced you think you are, there is nothing quite so unnerving as seeing a dead man walking past you. The [...]
That was me, allright, “death from above.”
I wanna’ be an Airborne Ranger. I wanna’ live a life of danger. Death from above! Hell, that was me all over. Only, I was never even a regular ground-pounder, much less Airborne. But, when we were ass-deep in greenies, nobody cared. Yeah, [...]
I remember the Chrome Girl.
She was a Gift-Giver and I was a Quester. She had magic and I wanted it, no matter the price.
It was the Summer between my Freshman and Sophomore year of college and the Magic Plague was still new. People were changing as fast as the times. [...]
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
- John 1:5
Night. The stars glittered in the velvet sky. The smoke of a small cigar swirled in the air like a serpent. The thin knife glinted in Paul Black’s hand as he turned it around and around.
Nietzsche thought that suicide was [...]
There’s one of those “paid advertisements” flashing on the T.V. screens and the lights are strobing in time to the latest re-mixed, pop-music knock-off. The lyrics are saying something about dancing alone while she danced with another. Deep. Real deep. A whole six inches. I start to leave when I see him. He glides towards [...]
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