Shellshocked: Chapter One

I’ve been short of writing time since I finished my last night shift; I’ve had to spend most of my time shifting furniture out of my daughter’s room ready for her new carpet to be laid, and then I’ve made a start on shifting it back. Also the carpet fitter left without replacing the room doors, which he had taken off to trim the lower edges so that they cleared the new thicker carpet, and I had to put them back myself.

Consequently I haven’t had time to do much work on the next chapter of ‘Angel of the Morning’; however I had already done a substantial chunk of the first chapter of ‘Shellshocked’, following on from the previously posted Prologue, and so I’ve finished that off today.

Angel Season 5; what if someone else had been infected with Illyria instead of Fred? This chapter isn’t fluffy at all. There may well be comedy in later chapters, but there’s some serious stuff to get through first. 4,400 words. I’m not sure about the rating, but maybe we’d better say ‘R’ just to be safe.

I’ve changed the timeline of Illyria’s background slightly; it makes no sense that she should be familiar with humans if she really is millions of years old. She has to post-date at least the evolution of homo erectus, and probably the evolution of homo sapiens. I’ve settled for her kingdom being 70,000 years ago at the height of the Tahoe period of the Wisconsin Glaciation.

The Prologue was Here.

( Shellshocked: Chapter One. )

Shellshocked: Chapter One

I’ve been short of writing time since I finished my last night shift; I’ve had to spend most of my time shifting furniture out of my daughter’s room ready for her new carpet to be laid, and then I’ve made a start on shifting it back. Also the carpet fitter left without replacing the room doors, which he had taken off to trim the lower edges so that they cleared the new thicker carpet, and I had to put them back myself.

Consequently I haven’t had time to do much work on the next chapter of ‘Angel of the Morning’; however I had already done a substantial chunk of the first chapter of ‘Shellshocked’, following on from the previously posted Prologue, and so I’ve finished that off today.

Angel Season 5; what if someone else had been infected with Illyria instead of Fred? This chapter isn’t fluffy at all. There may well be comedy in later chapters, but there’s some serious stuff to get through first. 4,400 words. I’m not sure about the rating, but maybe we’d better say ‘R’ just to be safe.

I’ve changed the timeline of Illyria’s background slightly; it makes no sense that she should be familiar with humans if she really is millions of years old. She has to post-date at least the evolution of homo erectus, and probably the evolution of homo sapiens. I’ve settled for her kingdom being 70,000 years ago at the height of the Tahoe period of the Wisconsin Glaciation.

The Prologue was Here.

( Shellshocked: Chapter One. )