Today

We are now in the long, slow, arduous stretch towards spring. Children chant songs about April and May, because that's when the flowers come back and we're reminded sunlight exists. Nobody sings about January and February, at least not in Northern Europe. What's to sing about? Your voice would get carried away by the wind and the rain, and nobody can tell who's singing because it's so dark all the time.

Sorry. Got a little carried away there.

I'm taking my little family on a one-week holiday starting tomorrow, and the break is both earned, and needed. In the meantime, I've been making good progress and the end is in sight, but it's like climbing a mountain. Every time you think you're reaching the summit, you realize it's just a plateau and there's more climbing to be done.

Free Short Story

Today I bring you another short from the archives. If you're reading this, then you should have already read the introductory chapter to Past Mistakes. (if you haven't then how did you even find this newsletter? It's over here). You may have read A First Time for Everything, which is a prequel to Past Mistakes, and you might, but it's unlikely have been introduced to the other prequel, which I share much more infrequently, called Two to Tango.

Past Mistakes is about Emily, an amateur exorcist in New York who's driven by regret, guilt and whisky. Her friend Raymond is another exorcist in New York, somewhat more competent than her, but with issues of his own. At the outset of Past Mistakes, they know each other, but don't necessarily like each other, even if they co-operate from time to time.

But how do exorcists meet? It's such a small and hidden community of freaks, fakes and flakes that the chances of them ever encountering each other ought to be fairly small.

As it happens, they do more or less know who other exorcists in their city are, given they advertise in similar places and buy the same kinds of tools. But that's not how Emily met Raymond. The first time she saw him, he was flying backwards through a closed door, a few feet off the ground.

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And now, I'm taking a break.

See you in two weeks.

Nick.

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