TDE Chapter 11 - and the new SOE story

Hi Folks

Its been pointed out to me that Chapter 10 of TDE (first draft) is missing from here.

My apologies - I'm not quite sure what happened, but I must have got confused and posted 11 when I meant to post 10.

Anyhow - here it is...

Please note that future draft chapters of TDE will be available to all Patrons though my Sync server - but you need to activate your Discord bonus to get to that.

If you can't work out how to do that or it doesn't work (Patreon seems to have some issues sometimes), please email me and I will send you a personal Discord invitation. I am uncertain of the future and direction of Patreon and need to make sure that we are protected from a sudden shutdown! Hence the move to make everything available to you elsewhere.

Rest assured, your continuing support is important to me - it is you Patrons that supported me from the beginning and I truly value that.

In other news, the new SOE Girl short story is coming along - nearly 9,000 words and I expect it to be around 20,000 when it's done. This is one of those things that 'just happens'. 

I was working on a scene in Chapter 12 when Mutti tells Col about the execution of an SOE girl in Ravensbruck - and I needed to put together some back story. I ended up writing the scene of the girl's execution so I could write Mutti Frida's telling, which occurs immediately afterwards. It's very dark - but not explicitly violent. It was also very strange to write - it's written in first person from the point of view (POV) of the girl herself. 

 ... and I found I could not stop there. She grabbed me and insisted I tell her full story. It's become my tribute to those girls in the SOE who gave their lives in WW2, whom I first learned about when I visited the Dachau concentration camp and saw the plaque commemorating four young SOE ladies executed there in September 1944.

The picture below is the first draft of the cover for Colette created by Chris Pink (who did the covers for TMEA and TDE.

Don't worry - I am working on both the short story and TDE at the same time, which is an interesting experience of itself. Chapter 13 of TDE is nearly done...

Take care of you and yours,

Robert
Brisbane, Australia