web home of dark fiction writer A.J. Church

Works in Progress

Lucid

Outline complete, first draft three-quarters written

Return of the Light - Book 1 of The 'Ru Lexicon series

Awaiting final edits

Red Awakening - 2008 NaNoWriMo project

Title change. Working on first round edits

Other Writing

Once upon a time I wrote some short stories. The following are two of the early ones (*cringes*).

The Edge

Somewhere within the barren house a clock counted a muted chime: one, two. I stared past the hot silver weight in my hand at the woman on the floor, her blood shimmering like cherry-colored oil on the slick white tile, framing a ragged hole between vacant eyes.

Green eyes.

I had no memory of who she was or why I was here among these stark walls. My brain was numb. I knew myself only from scent, and a name that flashed like a neon sign from oblivion ... Mike. Mike Salino.

Hand-Painted Pottery

“You’re going to use a knife?”

Rene paused, his eyes shifting from the glimmering dagger to the nude woman stretched before him on the bed. He’d picked her up at The Cave, one of those goth hangouts where the death groupies, as he liked to call them, came to roost. This one was a little young--probably just barely legal--but she’d practically fallen into his lap when he told her what he was.

“You’d prefer something else?” he asked, flipping through his mental Rolodex to recall her name. Something with an A; Andy, Angela, Angeline. Yeah, that was it. Angeline.

“Well,” she pouted, “I just thought you’d, you know ... use your teeth.”