Fiction Writers' Platform » Book Excerpt http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net The Showcase for Fiction Writers Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Excerpt: The First Vial : Indecent Proposal http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2009/11/excerpt-the-first-vial-indecent-proposal/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2009/11/excerpt-the-first-vial-indecent-proposal/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:23:18 +0000 linnea http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/?p=376  His mistress dead, the priest intends to choose a successor and summons Lady Katherine to the church. She obeys, arriving with her servant.

 

When they reigned in outside the churchyard, Katherine knew a moment’s misgivings. The big church was so quiet and its grey bricks reminded her of the gravestones in the cemetery. She shivered and

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The Swiss version of an Amtrak train raced past the lovely villages set in a postcard view with layers of mountains, valleys, and quaint cottages, but Kirk was oblivious to its enchantment. It wasn’t that he didn’t

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]]> http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2010/10/first-chapter-of-the-book-pushback/feed/ 5 Excerpt: Lest Darkness Prevail – Morcai Sees Light http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2009/11/excerpt-lest-darkness-prevail-morcai-sees-light/ http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/2009/11/excerpt-lest-darkness-prevail-morcai-sees-light/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:56:48 +0000 Sandra http://www.fictionwritersplatform.net/?p=281 This excerpt from Lest Darkness Prevail features a precocious 3-year-old named Morcai as he gives his godfather and other family members an unexpected surprise.

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“Shi’níyah, are you all right?” Warnach rose on his elbow and leaned over her shoulder.

Twisting onto her back, she expelled a frustrated breath. “I’m so tired of not being able to sleep.

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Again puffing on the cigarette, Tammi Jean closed her mind on Charlene Cook and watched an eighteen-wheeler top the crest of a ridge almost two miles away, watched it slide into view and then disappear, only to reappear again, riding the undulating hills like a gigantic black whale rising and plunging over

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25 September, 1989 – Montevideo, Uruguay

“Nazis? War Fathers?” I asked. “They are long forgotten evils, Mr. Lawton. Why resurrect old ghosts? Why bring

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back the old horrors? It’ll only cause pain to a lot of old folks. I know it’ll pain me.”

            I was sitting with Bob Lawton at Fun

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