Up and running... and a teaser

So we are up and running with Bent Highway - I say "we" as a bunch of you either came by and read the first chapter, or just took a look to see what has happening. Either way, I'm glad to have you along for the ride.

The new DC chapters will be coming fairly quick at the beginning - as much as I love revisiting and adding to the story, I am also anxious to get writing the second half.

Here's a teaser for Chapter 2 (Arrow), coming at you mid-week. Drop me a line here or on twitter. Or just wave, I see you out there.

Chapter2 - Arrow

I don’t know how long I’d been driving. I don’t know how long I’d been doing anything. Time stretched out like a line or cut paper dolls, except there were long gaps of nothingness – somehow the doll chain hunt together, but things disappeared in the space. Things like my memory. Or even my senses.

I was cruising at seventy-five when I came upon the black sedan. The temp gauge needle crept up, but I stared it down and it held it’s position. The sedan looked familiar. Maybe my dad had owned one all those years ago. It shone in that vintage sort of way, the fins as sharp as spears. The sedan flashed its brake lights and I hit mine in reflex. Wait, how did I know that car? My father never drove anything that big. This was from somewhere else.

I was almost tailgating, so I figured I better ease up before we were clinking bumpers. I needed to either get some distance or floor it and pass. A dark shape popped up in the sedan's back seat, filling the rear window. I strained through my bug-splattered windshield. What the hell was that thing? A chalk white face appeared next to black shape, and a pair of bowed lips glowed against a woman's stark skin. The image hit me so hard that I slammed on my brakes. I fishtailed the truck. Even as I spun, I still cranked my head to stare at her face. Those bowed lips swelled to the size of a bleeding watermelon, and I heard them speak aloud, not like a memory, but like she was in the truck cab with me. The words didn't form sentences.

"Black…soft… earth…flesh…green…far."

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Chapter 2 - More to come