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If you liked my story "Standoff" on The Untold Podcast, please go vote for it in the Good Snakes Flash Fiction Contest! Voting closes this coming Wednesday, March 7.
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If you haven't heard it, go have a listen: www.untoldpodcast.com/home/unt…
If you want to read it with your eyes, it's in my gallery:
Standoff“Let the lady go, Thomas,” I say, my forearm cannon armed and pointed at the man in front of me. “My backup’s already on the way. You’ve got nowhere to run.”
Tom Crougar’s forehead, shoulders, and upper back are covered in jagged, bony protrusions, and a long bone blade extends from his right forearm to press against the neck of his unfortunate hostage.
“Not a chance, freak,” he sneers at me. “You let me walk, or I open her jugular.”
“You are only wanted for robbery and grand theft auto, Tom,” I say directly. “Adding murder to the list will only make things worse for you.”
“I’ll die before I go back to the pen,” he insists. “You can’t make…”
“Um...excuse me?” the middle-aged woman in Tom’ grasp interrupts, looking at me. “I’m sorry, but...what are you?”
“Oh, I am a police officer, ma’am. My name is Officer Si
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Social Media Links
Since I'm not that active here lately, here's where else I am online: https://mewe.com/i/reedbenson1 https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6194247-reed-benson https://letterboxd.com/A_Good_Reed/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhS6LK8HU-25plAkVlFFdg And if Parler ever gets going again, I'll link you to there, too.
The New Story Is Here! Second Draft Coming!
The new story is called "Make Her Eyes Blue (First Draft)." I'm working on the second draft and will probably have it up as early as today. It depends on if I can get the climax revised during my daughter's afternoon nap or not. The second draft is looking to change a lot of the dialogue during the climax. It also adds a bit more to the main characters' joint backstory and spreads the exposition out a bit. I hope everything flows better this time around. The second draft will be the one I share with my friends at the Christian Geek Central forums in hopes that they will give me good feedback that will help me revise it even further to make it the best it can be. Ideally, I'd like to get it read on The Untold Podcast (which is on hiatus right now), or perhaps publish it somewhere outside of dA. After I post the second draft, I'm going to also post a couple pictures of the main characters. Hope you like them.
A New Story on the Way!
I am finally close to finishing my first short story since "Standoff." It features all-new characters. It's a werewolf story (as I hinted at in one of my Inktober 2020 pictures), but this werewolf has a new twist that I haven't explored before. I hope to write more with her after this. I also hope to write more from the "Standoff" universe, too. And someday, I'll get a new Carmen story. But one thing at a time.
Lack of Production
I've not been posting much recently. One would think that, given the lockdown situation, I'd be home with nothing to do, so I'd be trying to draw or write more. If I were childless, maybe that's what would be happening. But then again, maybe I'd just be filling all the time I spend with my kid with video games and movies instead. The thing is, I'm not swamped with work. I'm not juggling my daughter and my job. I've got plenty of time for both. I'm just not filling my down time with art. I get my computer in front of me and start to write, but then I get overly conscious about how what I'm writing is not good enough to sell, and it therefore must not be worth doing. I get a pencil and paper and draw a pair of eyes, surround them with a face and head, and then get discouraged by how boring it all is and how I just draw the same things over and over, rarely liking how they look (especially the wolves). So I give up and just fantasize about how I want my art to look. My big realization
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