This was a nice discovery to cheer me up after returning to dreary grey London after a sunny holiday in Provence. The website Bookmark Online Reads has awarded Spireclaw the highest score in the Mystery novels listing, giving it a handsome 8 out of 10. Thanks for that! Click here to visit their website.
I woke up early this morning on my 50th birthday. It was as bright outside as it would ever be at 5am due to it being the summer solstice, the longest period of daylight time. From here on, the nights get longer. Sitting in bed with a cup of tea I started to think about some of the first stories I wrote, and a few memories came back to me. The first thing I remember writing was in my penultimate year in primary school, so we're talking 1983-4. Successfully combining two major phobias of mine, it was called "Tarantursnake" and took up a whopping four pages of my English workbook. I remember getting a decent mark for it, but the only thing I could remember from the story itself was a man hanging on for dear life to a pole suspended over a pit of tarantursnakes. In fact, that may have been the whole thing. I'm not so sure it followed any conventional rules of narrative. Later, in 1987, in high school, a collection of us smuggled copies of the newly published paperback of
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your positive comments and I'm so glad you enjoyed the novel. I'm afraid I had to delete your post because you included a spoiler about what happens in the last 2 chapters. I will however respond to your question in a way that only readers of Spireclaw will understand. The character you mentioned was perhaps not as innocent as you'd think. You may have to give a little thought to what that person may have done in a former life. Remember that the person had blonde hair. I hope that points you in the direction of the answer you need. All the best, Huw
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