Read The Rewrite | 2024

The time before… Lightning skittered across the plateau. The successive strikes illuminated a dark silhouette. She stood in her glinting armour, long hair blowing free. The tip of her blade rested in the puddle of blood at her feet. Her grip was loose, fingers curled around the hilt. Her chest heaved.

Meet the MC and the Femme Fatale.

Barry negotiates difficult conversations with the mothers of his babies. He visits Yumi's house and meets her parents.

The Signing ‘So, I have a question for you Brigid. What was it all for?’ Siobhán is pacing back and forth in front of the stove. The stove their mother taught them all to cook on. In the kitchen where their mother, even though she was close to death, got up

Amidst the chaos of her morning routine, Jen's world is shattered by a single message.

“A wound is the place where the Light enters you.” -Rumi   Prologue – 1863 –   He stared at his knuckles. The scattered scabs looked like geese, dark flecks against a winter sky. He stretched his fingers out, then closed them in a fist. Small trickles of bright red escaped

Holding his breath, Rowan slowly wiped brown globs off of his laboratory spectacles. He looked down at his brand-new, red and gold embroidered tunic, now covered in putrid, grassy clumps of cow excrement. He sighed. Asher had been so excited to show off his new experiment that Rowan couldn’t say no,

Tilda does not a dad, she has many. From the dependable Brian to the charming Orlando, Tilda has plenty of father figures, but yearns to find the man responsible for her conception. When her grandmother dies and her mother leaves home, Tilda sets out on a quest to track her father

Scene 1 - Dina learns she's missed a call from an unexpected person, but is unable to return the call right away. She struggled to make progress on her dissertation, so takes a break to get some air, and encounters an unpleasant, but common, campus fixture. Scene 5 - Dina finally