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The Friday Muse – Level 3
Blood. Lots of blood, smeared on the walls, smeared on her face and arms. It was thick, and it smelled sweet. She inhaled a deep breath and fell in love with the scent. She would wear it as a perfume if she could. The blood wasn’t hers, of course. This fact alone would have supplied some level of relief for X88 if she cared. But she didn’t care. She didn’t have the time nor the strength to care about those she had to mow through to get to Level 3. The day had rewound like it always did. At 11:59:59 the night before, the day – the program – restarted,…
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The Friday Muse – NaNoWriMo Excerpt #1
I’m knee-deep in NaNo this month, so I figured I would share a bit of my manuscript with you for this week’s Muse. Right now, my word count is at 11,221. I’m going for 100,000, but that’s not a cut-in-stone goal, as I have a million other projects I am currently in the middle of working on in addition to NaNo. For NaNo, I’m actually working on a slew of different short stories. This enables me to hop around if I’m having issues with my word count or if I’m stuck on a story. Today’s Muse piece is an excerpt from a story I have tentatively titled, Camille’s Castle, in…
