Untitled Sword & Sorcery Short Story Length: 4,591 Draft: 1st Draft, no edits by: Patrick Hester © 2011 All Rights Reserved The Witch King, bored, called upon the demi-god Utesh, for inspiration. A hundred bodies littered the ground below the sheer cliff wall of the castle, their life’s blood still warm in the throne...
So, I recently shared with you guys an excerpt from a WIP – an untitled space opera. It was from one characters point of view – the story itself has multiple characters so we can see a lot of different pov’s. Today, I wanted to share one of those with you. Ulysses Sean Starker...
This one has been bouncing around in my head for quiet some time. I work a little on it now and then when the mood strikes me. It’s a complicated piece. This week, after complaining that I hadn’t been very productive, I found myself working on this again and really getting into it so...
Keeping up with the ‘short story a week’ goal I have set for myself, I decided to revisit a piece of Flash Fiction I wrote a while ago called ‘Welcome to Solar City‘. To this day, it’s one of my favorite pieces and I wanted to expand it a little, delve deeper. I’m calling...
I said I was gonna write a short story a week and one week in, I’m 1 for 1! I even sent it around for some feedback (Thanks to everyone who got back to me – I really appreciate it!!). For now, I wanted to share a little of the story with you folks. ...
So – I had some time to myself when I got to Milwaukee for my connecting flight. I found myself noting that the concourse / terminal itself was incredibly drab and depressing. The color scheme was all gray and faded blacks in odd patterns that were probably eye catching twenty or more years ago. ...
One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western flick, ‘The Sons of Katie Elder’, but then I changed it...
I have shared with you a couple of chapter excerpts from ‘The Queen of Shadows’, the book I wrote in 3 days. To be honest with you, I didn’t even pause before I started working on the next book, ‘The Road to Faloan’. It wasn’t until I started letting other people read the first...
I managed some good stuff on the sequel to my ‘written in 3 days’ book ‘The Queen of Shadows’, and wanted to share some of it with you here today. Yesterday, I introduced you to a couple of characters who were being put through the blender. Here’s a bit of the aftermath. Enjoy! ©...
Yesterday, I introduced you to the book I wrote in 3 days, ‘The Queen of Shadows’. Well, at least to one of the better bits of it. In order to setup tomorrow’s excerpt from the sequel, ‘The Road to Faloan’, I wanted to share another bit today. The characters from this novel also exist...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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