The Outsider: Blog

I have deleted five posts from the comments section of A Glass, and Darkly. The comments were not about the story, so they're gone.

Find a different venue if you want to make comments like that.

The sequel to A Charmed Life, titled A Glass, and Darkly, is in the queue for posting this morning. It continues the story of Jeff Knox and his family as they cope with a world radically changed.

AGAD will post every Monday and Thursday until the end of 2023.

The final chapter of A Charmed Life posted this morning. Thank you to all who have taken the time to read, comment, and/or recommend the story.

The sequel to ACL will start posting in a week or so. Like ACL before it, it is finished and won't leave you hanging. I will post the chapters as I have with ACL.

Other, stand-alone stories will also post in the near future, some in the Enfield Undrowned universe, some not.

I continue to work on a third Knox Family story, and have plans for a fourth.

I would like to wish all of my fellow Americans a great Labor Day weekend, wherever you might be. Stay safe! There's no reason to meet my compatriots in EMS this weekend...

Chapter 49 of A Charmed Life will post on Monday. While other chapters in the story have had difficult scenes, Chapter 49's last a bit longer than just a scene or two. It might be rough for some of you to read. It's nearly a decade since I wrote this chapter and it still affects me.

As the advisory at the start of the chapter will say, violence to young children and its aftermath is coming. I don't want to give too much away, but Jeff has to deal with it afterward. It won't involve his family directly; they help him as he tries to cope with the memories and emotions following the ambulance call.

I finally finished submitting all the chapters of A Charmed Life for posting. Two chapters will continue to post each week until near the end of September.