While living on the streets, Sarah meets Brady, a handsome and spiritual benefactor. He offers her shelter and an opportunity to escape her past in an idyllic utopia. Is utopia tarnished?
Usually, I’m a short-story sort of Dragon. Shelter is a minor departure for me; it’s thirty-one chapters, plus a prologue and an epilogue. It has been a long time since I ventured into a novel length story. Shelter took weeks to write and nearly as long to edit. We follow Sarah, a self-reliant street urchin who’s been on her own for a very long time. This is her checkered journey, sometimes fraught with peril, as she finds her unique path through life. A word of caution: while it is far from a main theme of this story, there are a couple of chapters where there is violence, sometimes graphic violence. If such descriptions might trigger you as a reader, you might want to proceed with prudence. And yes, there are various descriptions of sex in this story. I am not a particularly graphic writer when it comes to sex, and it may take some chapters to get there, but I promise you, there is sex. Maybe even drugs. Maybe even a rock and roll reference.
I will be posting Shelter to SoL over the following months, one chapter at a time; however, if reading the entire story immediately is important to you, it is available on Bookapy in its entirety. For those who choose to support my writing via Bookapy, the eBook contains significant additional scenes which will be unavailable through the SoL version. These additional scenes are entirely unnecessary to enjoy the book; in fact, the first draft of the story did not include them at all. The additional scenes are my small way of saying thank-you to those who choose to purchase the tome.
As always, I must sincerely thank Pixel for his tireless editing which only makes each work better than it was. Any remaining errors or anachronisms are entirely mine. Thank you also to Munkie for licensing me the eBook cover art.
I also would like to thank everyone who reads any of my stories and especially those who choose to send me a note, comment, review, or even simply to vote. Your attentive eyes and precious time are very much appreciated!
And now, back to my regularly scheduled cicadas and breezes.