This is a very rough (un-edited) beginning to a dark fantasy I’m currently calling The Heretic and the Confessor. It’s an idea that came to me recently that I just sat down and wrote “off the cuff” and one that I hope to work on sometime in the next – maybe as a serial to start. Please forgive typos and lack of proper development but comments are certainly welcome.
“You must understand, what Id did, what I have done, it’s because of what I was. I’m not who I was then. Then was a time of darkness, mindlessness, aimless, hungry wandering. It was when I was dead.”
I squinted. “You can barely see me. My words sound distant. You hear me from your tomb existence. I know. It was like that for me once also.”
About the Author
H. Solomon lives in the greater Birmingham, AL area where he strongly dislikes yard work and sanding the deck rail. However, he performs these duties to maintain a nice home for his loved ones as well as the family’s German Shepherds. In his spare time, P. H. rides herd as a Computer Whisperer on large computers called servers (harmonica not required). Additionally, he enjoys reading, running, most sports and fantasy football. Having a degree in Anthropology, he also has a wide array of more “serious” interests in addition to working regularly to hone his writing. The Bow of Destiny is his first novel-length title with more soon to come.
Have a look at some of my books
Book 1 of The Bow of Hart Saga: The Bow of Destiny can be found at these online retailers: Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, Amazon – Kindle & Smashwords. See the book trailer.
Prequel short stories to The Bow of Hart Saga:
Trading Knives – Kobo, iBooks & Barnes & Noble, Smashwords & Amazon
What Is Needed – Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, Smashwords & Amazon
18 thoughts on “Friday Fantasy Sample: The Heretic & The Confessor”
You have an excellent beginning to what looks to be a story of great interest.
Thanks, Micki! I’ll see what I can do to write more of it but I don’t even know where the plot is going at this point!
The choices are endless lol.
Yes, it is wide open at the moment…
More please. It is shaping up very nicely, in my opinion.
Thanks, I don’t even have a plot but I’ll see what I can do to write more of it as I have time!
This is the start of something great.
Thank you very much!
Vignettes are valuable to help us clarify. Some of them go on to full stories. Nice start.
Thanks, I wrote it on the fly. I hope to write a novel off of this but I have no plot our outline for as of yet – just a kernel idea.
It happens to me too. I wrote one a month or two ago on the blog. It was a good beginning to either a dystopia or disaster story. The idea has merit, but it allowed me to park it and concentrate on more pressing matters.
Same here – it’s parked for the future. Yesterday, I actually outlined about 7 chapters for another book since the hamster was running in the wheel about it. I don’t even have a plot for that yet but I suppose I will soon. I’m think of using Dragon to dictate some work and see if I can jump-start some rough drafts that way during spare time and commutes in the car.
Interesting. I outlined a shorter work and sat it aside. I need to finish two projects first.
Oh I need to finish my series too but I want to get other projects in the hopper while I’m focused on editing so I think I can find more time to write rough drafts along the way – no rush, just trying to get more productivity along the way without taking much time from the primary project now.
It’s a good idea. I roughed out four outlines last summer. One is in progress, one is dead for PC reasons, the other two will happen over time.
Anything to have new content ready to go when I finish a project.
Good plan.
Thanks but you know what they say abou t the best laid plans.