Tag: writing
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Chapter 6: Hello The explosion reached her as sound and then as force. A concussive boom tore through the tunnel, shaking loose grit that rained into Apricot’s hair. The lights spasmed twice and died. Darkness swallowed everything except thin ribbons…
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Chapter 5: Dirty Tricks Apricot pressed on, her breath cutting short as she broke into a jog. The outline of the Okabe Central Bank loomed from the haze, more bunker than building. Its concrete bulk squatted under the floodlights, armored…
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Chapter 4: On the Radio The afternoon light slanted through the towers of Blue Ash City, cutting gold between steel and glass. The hum of traffic and pedestrian chatter wrapped around the open-air tables of Bingo Burgers, where the smell…
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Afternoon Blue Ash City moved at its usual weekday rhythm, shoes clattering across pavement, vendors calling over the thrum of traffic, neon signs glowing stubbornly against the strong midday sun. Apricot drifted with the current down Iwai Street. The air…
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Morning Images of dim burgundy light pulsed through Apricot Signa’s dreams, like lantern glow bleeding through silk, warm and steady with her heartbeat. For a moment she drifted inside it, safe. She thought of paper lanterns strung across Castor’s summer…
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Blood In The Streets Night pooled in New Ash City like spilled ink, neon rims bleeding into the gutters. Arikado moved through it the way a man moves through a dream he doesn’t trust, slow, precise, senses on thin wire.…
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I always find it best to write with background music. Often in the past I have just listened to whatever I have been feeling like listening too. Over time however I discovered themes and styles that brought out different ways…