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Fiction
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Meredy Amyx
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| • | Flash Fiction |
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100-Word Stories |
| • | Excerpts from a Novel That May Never Be Setting: medieval France |
| • | Excerpts from a Novel in Progress Setting: northern California, 2007 |
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| Short Stories |
| Brian A woman's impulsive experiment breaks her out of a rut. |
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The Summons* The power of imagination sustains him. |
| Gallery of Memories* What if a borrowed history is better than your own? |
| The Surrogate* The heart finds the way home. |
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| *24-hour short story contest entry |
| Flash Fiction | |
| Stopping (490 words) | Perfection (496 words) |
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Class (307 words) |
Crying (200 words) |
| The Middle of Her Life (400 words) | |
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| 100-Word Stories | |
| A Penny a Word | |
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If these stories were bought for a penny a word, each of them would cost exactly a dollar. |
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| Excerpts from a Novel That May Never Be |
| In 2005 I began work on a novel that is probably doomed by its concept. A brief account of its origin and subsequent abandonment is on the blog page. Here are some excerpts from Sybille's Journey, Book I of what was to become a trilogy entitled The Vardysts of Bruges. The excerpts break off abruptly and still contain embedded notes and questions for further research. |
| Prologue A cache of ancient manuscripts comes to light in Bruges. |
| Montaillou (fragment of Chapter 1) The Inquisition arrests an entire village for heresy. |
| Escape (fragment of Chapter 2) Orphaned siblings Sybille and Arnaud flee the village. |
| Belcaire (fragment of Chapter 3) Fearing pursuit, Sybille decides to travel north. |
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The Tale of Two Roses Sybille's account of their history becomes a fairy tale. |
| Hugo and Jaqueline Bandits chase them into a dangerous refuge—a monastery. |
| Guillaume Sybille and Arnaud need a strong companion on the perilous roads. |
| Arras Temporary shelter in a blacksmith's shop proves a fateful turn. |
| Mosse Thinking Arnaud is possessed, a farmer abandons them by the road. |
| The Two Sisters of Béthune Sybille seeks asylum with two ancients of the craft. |
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| Excerpts from a Novel in Progress |
| In 2006 I started over, transplanting my main characters and situations into a more familiar setting and period. This step involved significant changes and several false starts. An account of its evolution is on the blog page. Here are some samples from a novel originally called The Mozeny and now, after further changes, developing under the working title Society of the Just. |
| Old Start #1 A serious accident opens a door between two worlds. |
| Old Start #2 A young woman confronts an unwanted life transition. |
| Current Draft, Chapter 1 "Taylor and Mary Rose" |
| Current Draft, Chapter 2 "The Council of Agreement" |
| Current Draft, Chapter 3 "Compact Day" |
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