Cubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 3: Magic and Medicine
My God, last week was awful, not only with the Boston Marathon bombings, but also the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas and the earthquake in China. A heartbreaking week…. My right eye has cleared...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 4: AOX Investigations
Wow, another week has raced by. Right now I’m hard at work on the redrafting of the sequel to Cubicles–I think I’ve figured out how to shrink the darn thing down from 170,000 words to a more reasonable...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 5: Spying on Jake
We’ve reached Chapter 5 from Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. This Tuesday we start with Dorelai beginning to spy on Jake. Here is the entire fifth chapter...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 6: Zaliel’s Magi
As some of you probably noticed, instead of stopping at Chapter 4 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic, we went onward to Chapter 5. I’ve decided to post to Chapter 10, and then switch to posting excerpts of...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 7: A Job Interview with Louie
We’ve now reached Chapter 7 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. When we last left off, Dorelai was about to talk to O’Keefe in the middle of the night. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here....
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 8: Into the Labyrinth
Soon we’ll reach Chapter 10, and after that chapter is posted we’ll move on to something new. Most of what is posted on Tuesdays will continue to be excerpts, but as various short stories and novels...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 9: Sign on the Dotted Line
We now continue with Chapter 9 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. (PG-13) Cubicles, Blood, and Magic: Dorelai Chronicles, Book One L. M. May Copyright ©...
View ArticleCubicles, Blood, and Magic – Chapter 10: A Dangerous Task
I am going to be busy tomorrow, so I am posting this chapter early. We’ve reached Chapter 10 of Cubicles, Blood, and Magic. If you missed the earlier chapters, click here. (This story is PG-13.)...
View ArticleWriter’s Flight
Rylan dreams of becoming a published author. He thinks his first mystery writer’s workshop is going to help him achieve that dream. But what he finds is an out-of-control group spiraling down into a...
View ArticleJune Update
Well, I’ve gone and changed the Writer’s Flight post, so now it’s an excerpt instead of the entire short story. Hope you all enjoyed it! I’m happy to report that print editions of Soul Cages and...
View ArticleParallels
This week’s story sample is from Parallels. During a snowy twilight in December, Kate encounters four doppelgängers of herself from parallel universes … four other paths her life might have taken. (I’d...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 1.
Welcome to another Tuesday! This week, I’m starting the posts for the novel Soul Cages. This story is PG-13. Here’s a quick description from the back cover of the book: Seventeen-year-old Marian...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 2.
Here we are at another week gone by. Hope it’s been a good one for you all. I’m rather excited that Soul Cages and Cubicles, Blood, and Magic will have print editions out before the winter holidays....
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 3.
Here’s Part One. 3. of Soul Cages. When we last left off, Marian had been introduced to the Andervender family, John was getting ready to clean the swamp coolers, and Henry had just found a dead roach...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 4 & 5.
We’ve reached Part One. 4. of Soul Cages. It’s rather short, so I am going to add 5 in as well. When we last left off, Marian had found out about Sydney and was searching in the back yard for other...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 6.
We’ve reached Part One. 6. of Soul Cages. When we last left off, Marian and her family had gone back to the hotel for their last night before moving into their new home. ( PG-13 ) Soul Cages L. M. May...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 7.
Hello, and welcome back! This week I need to mention that a new YA horror short story of mine, Just One Date, is rolling out into e-bookstores right now. It’s up for sale now at the Amazon, Barnes...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 8 & 9.
Welcome to the month of September! Much will be happening publishing-wise this month. 1) I’ve had a chance to inspect the proof for Soul Cages, and the print version looks great. To get ready for the...
View ArticlePolicies for Terms of Use, Privacy, and DMCA added to website
Hello, Just a brief note that a Terms of Use, Privacy Notice, and DMCA Policy Notice have just been posted on my website. You can click on the links to read them if interested (they’re pretty much your...
View ArticleSoul Cages – Part One. Dreams in the Desert. 10.
The big news of the week for me writing-wise is that Soul Cages has been released into print and will be available for order in various bookstores as it rolls out. The ISBN-13 is 978-0615870465. In...
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