Me Trying To Outline ★ "The Water Curse"

Hi everybody!

I've decided to try my hand at writing a full length novel outline. (Somehow it came out as high fantasy, and I don't really write high fantasy...)

I'm pretty self conscious about my outlining capabilities, but I'm trying to get better at it. = )

I thought maybe someone might like "The Water Curse", or be able to use it for themselves if I posted it... 

It's probably crap. 
(If it is, let me know where I screwed up in the comment section... wink).

So, in closing, the following outline is free to use. 

Take it, dissect it, change it. Make a book or a story out of it... I hope someone can use it. <3 If nothing else, it might give you some ideas...



Thanks for reading!

Today Is Not The Day ★ Hollie Hausenfluck

What if I told you all those tales from your childhood were real? Vampires only come out at night, werewolves shift at the full moon, zombies eat brains, and ghosts still linger on this earth.

You'd probably think I was crazy.

Hell, sometimes I think I'm crazy.

It all started last year. When I almost died.

Troll ★ Trigram Origins

I hate using public restrooms. I always have to line the seats with paper and perform acrobatics to not touch the porcelain.

So, when I’m forced to use a public lavatory, it takes me forever. 

On one such occasion, I was setting up the flimsy squares of thin toilet paper just so… and I heard this…thing.

Walking around outside the stalls.

I froze. 

Wondered why something that sounded like a horse was clod-hopping through the women’s bathroom. In Houston, Texas no less.

I immediately stood up straight and listened.

I tried not to breathe.

I considered standing on top of the commode itself, but I was almost sure I wouldn’t have time to hide myself. 

Blood Bird ★ Benjamin Shelor (Part One)

It was a Sunday.

The day the kids down the lane went missing.

It was sunny, but cold; sunlight flitting through the trees like racing pixies. The fall air full of wood smoke and whimsy, changing leaves and magic.

The smell of it all would wrap around you whenever you stepped outside.

They were all kin, you see. The kids.

Two brothers and a sister.

There was Judy, Jack and Gene.

I supposed their parents thought themselves poetic, but couldn’t quite grasp what they were going for with the names was witty alliteration.

I think the beast gets a taste for a bloodline, and after that--- well, any future you might've had becomes a whisper of smoke, because your days are numbered.

"Mr. Thorne" (Snippet from Chapter One)

Hi everyone,

I hope the Halloween season is treating you well this year... It's been pretty good to me, so I can't complain. I'm still excited about the paperback version of "13 Wicked Tales Of Witches", even though it may not be available for a while longer. I can't help but swoon over actually seeing my book in print... 

*clears throat* 

Forgive me...

Today, I wanted to talk about #NaNoWriMo. I've wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month for a while now, but every time it rolled around, I was ill-prepared with no idea what to write about. This year wasn't much different except for one thing: I know I can finish a story if I put my mind to it. I've done it before. 

You know, I never understood what was so hard about starting a story until I tried to decide what the hell I was going to do for NaNo this year. 

Well, I think I've made a decision, and I've dropped the first chapter of what I'm tentatively dubbing "Mr. Thorne" for now, in the bottom half of this post. So give it a read. Hopefully, you'll be intrigued. I know I'd like to read past the first chapter, (lol) I just have to write it first!

P.S. Sorry for all the ellipses, I'm feeling ellipsis-y today... Yikes.

The Rift

There's a corner in my kitchen, over where I keep the coffee pot, that seems to be part of another dimension. I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous for me to say that. I'm not crazy. I live in the real world, but I also know that a small part of my kitchen opens up to… somewhere else.

It began when I started pouring my coffee over by the coffee pot every morning. 

My morning routine goes a little something like this: without fail, I get up, come downstairs, smoke my morning cigarette, then come back inside and pour myself a cup of coffee. When I pour the coffee next to the coffee pot, the cup is nearly full. When I take the  mug over to the other end of the kitchen to add sugar and the creamer, it's half empty.

 At first I thought it was kind of cool. I figured it was a trick of the mind, or just me not being able to rely on my own eyes within the first hour of being awake every morning; but neither theory proved to be true. 

COVER REVEAL YA'LL!!!!!!

I'm excited to report that "Feud" is finished. (Well, it's being edited now...) Thierry Adler is my favorite Warlock and I love to tell his stories. "Feud" is about Thierry's not-so-graceful run in with a rogue Magician named Mathis...

To be perfectly honest, "Reassignment" was supposed to come out first, but the Witch Goddess Hecate has seen fit to present me with other information... So, "Feud" it is.

Mathis Celsius has a tendency to play dirty, and with ugly things. He's been leaving a wake of trouble in his path through the South East Empire.

Thierry Adler has a penchant for thinking quickly in a sticky situation, but there's a limit to everyone's abilities, especially when things are falling apart for him back home in Galway, Ireland. He's got people bugging him to get back home and an otherworldly infestation to take care of in Gilkey, Louisiana, before people get hurt. But rather than cleaning up mess after mess, Thierry sees fit to go after the source. A Magician with way too much power at his fingertips.

Will Thierry be able to catch him before he brings the entire supernatural Community out into the open with his reckless abandon for demon magic? 

Can he complete the puzzle, cut off the Magician's power source and stop demonic hybrids with a taste for his flesh before he gets dead? I sure hope so.

Read it and see! July 15, 2017

Happy Reading

Avrin

P.S. I'm going to be posting the first chapter for a limited time in the very near future, so stay tuned, and thanks for reading!!!!

REASSIGNMENT Coming Soon...

Undercover spy and C.I.A. operative, Gregor, thought the weirdest thing he would ever experience was switching bodies with a serial killer on death row.

Soon after the man's ”execution”, Gregor is Reassigned to his new body, no strings attached; courtesy of the United States Government for outstanding service and exceptional prowess regarding his job.

After being downloaded into someone else's body, Gregor has a new lease on life. Before Reassignment, all Gregor had to look forward to was certain death in the form of terminal cancer.

He's smarter, quicker and better than he ever has been before. Gregor couldn't have been happier. Well, that was true until things started to go wrong.

Wouldn't it be great if the serial killer was his biggest problem? Poor Gregor...

What I'm Working On Now...

☰ THE PHILADELPHIA HUSTLER

Ryan Case is a lucky guy who got into trouble once. But that's all in the past now. These days,
Ryan has a lot of things going for him. He's going to college, he'll have a girlfriend soon and he just lost a vengeful Shaman’s beloved Siberian Husky...

Okay, maybe things aren't going as great as Ryan would have hoped, but surely, this can't be the worst thing that's ever happened to him.

Right?

How do you protect yourself from an evil Shaman anyway?

Arriving in June 2017

☰"The Tree" is now on Amazon!!!

I am so excited to announce that AMAZON is now offering my short story, "THE TREE", for $0.99. If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can enjoy this story for free. 

“I deal with the supernatural, the unnatural, the odd, the strange and the uniquely horrifying things that are only supposed to exist in children’s nightmares.”-Thierry Adler

Who do you call when a tree (of all things) harasses you?

When Claire Simon, a quiet librarian, is tormented by the red oak on the hill near her house, she takes drastic measures and hires a specialist to help. After hiring Thierry Adler to rid her of her strange problem, things really get weird...

Excerpt                                                                               

“So, you are an exorcist, then?” I blurted out in a harsh whisper of shock.

“Not really, more like a jack of all unnatural trade, versed in the occult, I’m trying to help those who have nowhere else to turn and no one who knows what to do to help them.”

Nervous laughter escaped my lips and I shook my head in agreement. “Because who can you call when a tree is haunting you?” 

“Me.” He said with a kind smile.

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