Grub stage is the third in a trilogy of novelettes by Ima Erthwitch. Set in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. Progress has been undeniably slow, but I am hoping to keep the words flowing this year so I can get this book finished. You can find the other two books in paperback at Amazon, […]
Rural Fantasy
by ima erthwitch
Chapter 5 | The Agreement
Here’s what I have so far. It’s not finished yet, but since I’m so slow getting around to it, I thought I’d go on and post what I have and add to it when I get more written. Chapter 5 The Agreement I grasped the elder’s outstretched hand with both of mine, and patted hers […]
Chapter 4 | Ledeir
There was a walk-through tunnel at the old Hobs Christopher State Park. The tunnel should still be there, but the area would be overgrown and deserted now. That tunnel is apparently a gateway portal, like the one I’d gone through at the Holding, when Asshole didn’t come to rescue me from the crazy prophet. A […]
The new Chapter 3 – rearranged some things
Click here to go to the previous chapter. Chapter 3Crossing the Van Winkle Portal She let me have the fuel voucher without any argument, which was a pleasant surprise. I went back out the way I’d come in, though the back hallway and past the offices. Once I stepped outside and let the door close, […]
The rest of Chapter 3
Click here to go back to the beginning. continued… So. The keypad at the door. No one gave me the code to get in. I could see Raymond smirking down the hallway, hands in his pockets, watching. I threw my hands up in a WTF expression. He dispensed hand sanitizer from his dispenser mounted by […]
Grub Stage | Working file | Starting over
Sooooo, it’s been so long since I worked on this that I couldn’t find my previous file. What probably happened is that I worked on it while I was on my trip to Qatar in February (since that seems to be the last time I wrote anything significant on it) and the computer I used […]
021120 – Grub Stage Progress
He drew back his head and raised his eyebrows. Then he put a finger under the flap and ripped it open, pulled the documents out of the envelope and began reading them. His brows formed furrows between his eyes as his eyes scanned the contents. Chapter 3Playing my cards The doctor suddenly pushed on the […]
021020 – Grub Stage Progress
I dismissed that thought nearly as soon as it entered my head. Normalcy was a state of being that felt more unrealistic than my reality. And in my reality, I was standing in a dark alcove in the office of a doctor that wanted to implant me with devices to make my ‘normal’ self a […]
013120- Grub Stage Progress
The painting interested me, though, in a way it might not have before my title became ‘assassin’. Two dogs with bared teeth in the foreground, face to face and hackles raised. And two dogs in the background, visible beneath the jaws of the ones in front. These two were locked in mortal battle. Blood and […]
012420- Grub Stage Progress
Just inside the door was another door with a small space like an alcove with a couple of antique plush chairs. There were no windows on the walls and a small lamp left the corners pretty dark. “Wait here,” she instructed. I looked at the heavy frame on the artwork hanging over the chairs and […]