Admit One: A Novelette

by Rachel H. White

A sullen drifter seeking shelter from a midnight thunderstorm in a small town must face his own failures through a musical onslaught from a host of supernatural entities. 9,570 words with digital paintings by the author.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 25, 2020

About the author

I have an online serial novel "In the Shadow of Downtown", a post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy journey about survival and relationships, and our perception of those "outside". Episodes on Substack free twice monthly, Dark but Magical Stories by Rachel H. White.

“Writing is almost like putting together a puzzle, only it’s more like taking a bunch of old family home movies, photographs, scrapbooks, and a dollhouse, and splicing them together, digitally retouching and altering them, dubbing in celebrity voices, and hand-writing the credits until you’ve made them into a major motion picture.”

I am a writer/illustrator of various types of speculative fiction but mostly modern fantasy. I have loved magic, and the people and creatures who live with it and use it, all my life, and writing and drawing these people in modern environments makes it all the more real to me.

Reviews

[Charlotte Babb]

This short story is one of redemption for a person who is desperate to get it.