Action Suspense Short Stories

The 5th story in this series is now up.  Double Cross is about how Talli tries to get back the insurance money that Larry ripped off Ethyl.

(Ethyl, for those that haven’t read it yet, was the woman who buys the collar bomb from Disco in the short story Collar Bomb and Talli is Ethan’s girlfriend who we first met in Seeking Vengeance).

I really liked writing this and I think it’s the first story that shows how much I’ve grown as a writer within this series.

The story is very strong and we get to see how Talli handles the situation of meeting Larry and trying to get the money back from him.  She obviously needed to grow up a lot during the course of the story and her journey was really fun to write.

And who would have thought that Talli was actually Ethyl’s granddaughter!  Even I didn’t know that until this story emerged.  Funny how characters will tell you who they are.

I think you’ll really enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Tabs.

About the Story

Seeking Vengeance ties together two stories about seeking revenge in troubled times.

In this story we meet two new characters.  One is Talli who Ethan from Hunger For Truth is now dating, and the second is Tom – a cop who seems interested in Emma (Ethan’s sister).

But things are not always what they seem when Ethan finds a mysterious object in the closet and learns that Talli is doing more than just protest against a corrupt insurance company.

It’s an explosive (he he) fun little story with a dramatic ending.

My Thoughts

I struggled with this story a lot.  When I wrote the first draft I had three main storylines all coming together but in the end it was too much and wasn’t working so I cut one of them out (sorry Josie, you can have your own story later).

I think just having the two plots works better for Seeking Vengeance giving it a nice tight finish and tying up loose ends.

This is also my longest story so far at over 6,000 words so if I can continue to edge up the storylines and word count one of these days I might get to a full novel!

Tabs xx

When I wrote Hunger For Truth I really liked the character of Disco and wanted to write a story about him and so now I have with my latest short story Blood Stain.

I had the idea for the first cat scene in the beginning after I saw a cat looking at me out of my front window and I wondered if Disco was looking at the same scene what he’d do (no I didn’t do what Disco did of course).

I really had no idea what would happen after that that and it seemed as if ‘he’ took over and I was just writing down whatever he wanted me to.  I like it when my characters do that – sometimes they just have a life of their own and I’m just the observer writing it all down.

I played around with the title for over a week before finally settling on Blood Stain.  There were a few others that I nearly chose including Momma’s Boy (you’ll get that reference if you read the story) but in the end Blood Stain seemed the best fit.

I really enjoyed writing my first murder scene (is that weird?) and really hope you enjoy Disco’s story.

Blood Stain is now up for Kindle for $0.99 – (other e-formats coming soon).

All the best,

Tabs xx