Novella - Dr. Immortal
Added 2024-12-09 11:43:35 +0000 UTCVal wanted me to see if I could write a short story. A test. News flash. With my style? Not even close. But, I managed to get through 4/5ths of a novella over the last two days! That's like 30k words and I have maybe have another 6k or so to write to finish. Here is a blurb. It's a stand-alone but a part of a much bigger universe as you might be able to tell.
I am NOT stopping any other series. This is just a novella test.
Each story can be self-contained. Each one has new characters and recurring characters, especially our two stars in this story.
Tell me what you think! I really started getting into it. I'll release a chapter a day (they're shorter chapters) and it will definitely be finished by the time you get to the last one. I'll probably finish it tomorrow. Val is still editing and going through it.
Yes! This does have an ending and I'm close to finishing it (in 2 days mind you) in like...15ish chapters in total. It's pretty gripping, I think!
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When the Fog Calls, Will You Sleep or Wander?
Dr. Isla Reyes thought she’d buried the past, but when Evelyn Hart — an old rival with a reputation for making people disappear — arrives unannounced at Isla's remote Amazon research site, she knows better than to run. Evelyn doesn’t extend offers. She issues orders. And this time, her leverage is an opportunity Isla can’t ignore.
Her new job? Site-X0 — a place so classified even its clearance code doesn’t exist on any official records. Somewhere within an Endless Sea lies an island where something impossible swims: an immortal fish that can regenerate in seconds. Science calls it a discovery. Evelyn calls it leverage. Isla just calls it bait — her bait.
But there’s something about The Fog in this other dimension. It clings. It listens. It knows her. And the deeper they go, the less her crew feels like themselves. Laughter grows distant. Shadows move when no one does. The air shifts, carrying the soft echoes of something moving just out of sight. Isla remembers Evelyn’s warning: “When the fog comes, sleep. Do not stay awake.”
They say fog hides things. Isla’s beginning to think it reveals them.
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