Neon Ashes: A Chronicles of Shadow Side Story Novella

by Lee Dunning

He was the lone survivor. How many solar orbits will it take for him to make peace with the universe?Foxfire burns with four centuries' worth of guilt. Hoping his annual pilgrimage will finally relieve his pain, the mouthy Wood Elf battles treacherous tundra to get to the site where he crash-landed after his mother’s selfless sacrifice. But the moment he asks his psion companion to unblock memories locked away for half a millennium, the self-deprecating bard finds himself unceremoniously dumped back on Earth.

Swept through time to his snarky slacker adolescence, Foxfire is trying not to piss off his first love when he spies the his should-be-dead old man. And after his mom stumbles out of her bedroom babbling about his eco-terrorist father and clutching a sawed-off shotgun, he plunges into a scrabble for survival on his home planet.

Will Foxfire’s purging of his demons turn into a battle for the third rock from the sun?

Neon Ashes is the captivating second book in the Tales from Before, During, and After fantasy series. If you like down-to-earth characters, cathartic stories of self-discovery, and a dash of humor, then you’ll adore Lee Dunning’s inventive cyberpunk stand-alone novel.

Buy Neon Ashes today for a pizza-obsessed run at redemption!

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2023

About the author

Lee has done many things over the years, including daring the horrors of IT for over 26 years. Having grown weary of that, she went back to school to study accounting. While such a job may not be the stuff of legends, it is a skill needed pretty much everywhere which makes it possible for her to keep a roof over her head regardless of where she chooses to live.

Of course, there is more to Lee than that. She's loved writing since grade school. She finished her first novel length story in high school, though she cringes now to read it. She's also worked with digital art since 2004. She's done several book covers for other authors as well as her own books. She also games both on the computer and tabletop. Her dice slinging has encompassed all versions of D&D, Fantasy Hero and most recently 13th Age.

As of July 26th, 2014, Lee published her first book, "Exile's Redemption" available here at Amazon in Kindle and Trade Paperback formats. The second book, "Exile's Gamble," and the third book, "Exile's Legacy," have since hit the virtual shelves of Amazon. Lee has finally finished the fourth book—"Exile's Vengeance" which concludes the current story line in the Chronicles of Shadows series. Currently she's working on some short pieces taking place ten years in the future from the events in Chronicles.

She currently shares her home with three cats, two Siamese and one horrified orange tabby. She recently moved to the Pacific Northwest, but longs to relocate to Alaska someday.