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EC: Battleground Sample Sundays

Sample Sunday 06

samplesundayHere is approximately 100 – 150 words from a randomly selected original piece for your enjoyment. These samples may include excerpts from my Eternal Curse Series, but will currently exclude excerpts from EC: Giovanni’s Angel. Please visit the ECS blog to read samples from that installment of the series.

Eternal Curse: Battleground chapter 1.3(wip)

Life was hard for Sheldon in a way I constantly tried to understand, but never really could. Growing up, Sheldon was a great big brother, very loving and protective and also playful. As we both grew and changed, our lives and relationship became complicated. Now that I was bigger than him, he was having trouble dealing with the new dynamic of our relationship. He resented having to pretend to be my little brother around humans, which it seemed we were around more and more. Mom was the one who always seemed to make everything balance out just right, and now she was gone.

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Count Your Blessings 02: Sunshine

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Sunshine

Like the vegetation of this planet, people need sunlight to grow (healthy). Sunlight is important for a number of different physical and medical reasons, but I think is essential to the human psyche. Have you ever noticed how melancholy people are when it’s been cloudy for a long time? They miss the sunshine because it gives them a sense of hope.

Where I went to college, there was a three to four month period where the sun just went away. It would peek through the clouds and around hill and mountain tops from time to time, but there were very few full days of sunny sunshine. Those were the toughest times of the term. Everything and everyone was tired, ached, and lacked cheer.

When the sunny season returned, life was good again, then exams kicked in (oh well J). People need sunshine and not to improve their tans. Why is it that in all the post-apocalyptic movies and books are the people always living underground, sad, and just scraping by? It may be fiction, for the time being, but there’s something to this notion of not needing the sun to survive.

I’m blessed to have sunshine, not because I need it, but because it makes me happy and feel good.

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Character Files from the ToiBox 20: Leo- Bio

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nomaleBiography:  Subject EC:GA 5-Leo

Leo’s story is a little lax in details because he’s such as supportive character.  He is the oldest son of a small town family who are distant cousins to an Italian family from New Jersey. Leo’s distant relatives knew and worked with Abraham when he was building up his wealth and before the death of his wife.

Leo’s main job, now, is to look after the finances and security of Abraham. He’s married and has a son named Theodore. His small family and white-collar life is stark contrast to the way he grew up.

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