A small sample of my writing.

I wrote this quickly last night. (Yes honey, I changed it back to seconds.) Just two paragraphs... but I like it so far.


On the morning of August 24th the sun blinked. Blinked is such a funny term. When one blinks, it’s quick. There’s even the saying in the blink of an eye, an expression to describe a rapid occurrence. What the sun did on that fateful day was far from quick and anything but rapid. It lasted seventeen seconds.

Seventeen of the scariest, most confusing and darkest seconds ever recorded in the history of the planet. Of course the scientists tried to explain it away, saying it was one of those rare moments when both of the moons, Beryline and Therma eclipsed the sun. That was quickly disproved when video of the event, caught from a lowly traffic camera on the other side of the planet, taped the event with both moons high in the sky and the blackening sun on the horizon.

It's from my novel Xerofall. A madman bent on killing a 9 year old girl, develops a weapon that kills a solar system's sun, essentially killing everything. He deploys the weapon where ever this little girl goes. He has information that this little girl grows up to become a nasty, genocidal ruler and killer herself. So he must stop her before she turns evil.